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What Do You Use Heating Pads For

If you experience stiffness, muscle cramping, or joint pain, heating pads can help reduce pain. By increasing blood flow to constricted muscles, helping connective tissue loosen, and causing muscle...

What is Arthritis?

Arthritis is generally characterized as pain, tenderness, swelling, or stiffness located in the joints of an individual. Although generally attributed to older individuals, arthritis affects people...

When To Apply Heat or Cold

To determine when to ice or heat an injury depends if you want to constrict or dilate the blood vessels surrounding an injury or the source of pain. Generally speaking, icing an injury is recommend...

Are DIY Rice Sock Heating Pads Safe to Microwave?

Put your socks in the sock drawer where they belong, and keep them OUT of the kitchen! Seriously, socks are for feet. Heat up a Lavabag instead, and feel the long-lasting relief of your new best fr...

Top 10 Fillers for Microwavable Heating Pads

The best heating pads are those with fillers that can retain heat for long periods of time, are durable, comfortable, don't smell bad after repeated use, and are easy to find.

Are Microwavable Heating Pads Safe?

Microwavable heating pads are safe to use as long as individuals follow the directions that come with their products. If someone makes their own heating pad, it is important to know what materials ...

Can Heating Pads Catch On Fire?

When heated correctly, it is perfectly safe to heat a heating pad in the microwave. Instances of heating pads catching on fire usually occur if the pad is heated too long, or the coverings are made...

What Causes Menstrual Cramps

It's coming! That dreaded time of month. You're clothes are no longer fitting, you feel tired and bloated, and then they hit! Cramps! Cramps, or more specifically menstrual cramps are caused when o...

This Is Why Your Heating Pad Smells Bad

Does your trusty heating pad smell bad, especially when being heated up in the microwave? That's because it is filled with food, food which spoils and gets burned after repeated heating. However, t...