Every drug store and local pharmacy has full aisles dedicated to medications that are supposed to help you treat or at least cope with your pain. Shelves are lined with pills, wraps, and heating pads that are usually expensive and are not all that effective in relieving pain. The best type of treatment to use on your aches and pains is a topical pain reliever called Biofreeze. This health product belongs to a family of treatments called cold therapy. Just like the name suggests, cold therapy uses cold to treat and relieve pain.

Biofreeze is effective because it is similar to putting ice on your pain. Ice is effective in relieving pain because the cold temperature coming from the ice causes vasoconstriction of your blood vessels. The vessels get smaller and the blood flow slows through them into the inflamed area resulting in pain relief. The downside to ice is that it cannot sit on the skin for longer than 15 minutes or it could cause nerve damage. Ice cannot get deep down into the skin and use its cold temperature to get the maximum amount of pain relief. This is where other cold therapy topical treatments like Biofreeze come in.

Biofreeze comes in three forms. You can use either a gel, roll on, or spray bottle form of the treatment. There are a number of different ways this treatment can be utilized to get rid of pain. The gel form is great to use for sore muscles. Apply a generous amount of the gel to the sore muscle area. Have a professional sports masseuse give you a deep tissue massage with the gel or have someone you trust gently massage the gel into the area. The massage helps the skin absorb the gel faster, giving you quicker relief. The massage also helps to work out the knots and stiffness in muscles and joints.

You can use the roll on form to treat joint inflammation. When your arthritis flares up and your pain begins, you can apply some of the medication in roll on form of the joint area. The menthol will produce a cooling sensation that will immediately begin working on bringing down the inflammation in your joints. In many cases, joint inflammation such as arthritis can cause a person to lose some of the mobility in that particular joint area due to stiffness. The roll on medicine can help those joints to loosen and restore some mobility to the area.