I.C.E. DOWN Ice Wraps for Shoulder Pain

Shoulder pain can make life very difficult. Simple tasks, like combing your hair or getting dressed, become an ordeal. When it hurts to use your shoulder, the normal reaction is to stop using it. But, this can lead to a very painful condition called frozen shoulder, in which your shoulder becomes inflamed and very stiff.

I.C.E. DOWN ice wraps can provide relief from the pain, reduce inflammation, and help you heal.

Causes of Shoulder Pain

Shoulder pain can be the result an injury, such as a fall, blow to the shoulder, or a sports injury. It can be caused by underlying health conditions including arthritis or fibromyalgia. Keeping your shoulder limber and the muscles strong can help prevent shoulder injuries and shoulder pain.

Inflammation and Shoulder Pain

The medical community is starting to recognize the connection between chronic inflammation and many of our worst and deadliest health problems. Inflammation is usually a factor when you have pain anywhere in the body.

Health conditions which cause inflammation can cause pain in and around all of your joints, but the shoulder is the most commonly affected by inflammation without a known cause. A very painful condition called frozen shoulder involves inflammation of the shoulder that eventually tightens the shoulder significantly reducing range of motion.

Whether you shoulder pain is acute or chronic, reducing inflammation is critical to relieving the pain, healing, and preventing further injury. The importance of reducing inflammation in shoulder pain treatment cannot be overstated.

Cold Therapy for Shoulder Pain

Because reducing inflammation is so important to treating shoulder pain, the worst thing you can do, in most cases, is reach for the heating pad. Unfortunately that is the first thing most people do, especially when the pain is accompanied by stiffness. Heat makes the inflammation worse.

Another instinctive but damaging way to deal with shoulder pain is to favor the painful shoulder and stop using it. That is bad for any part of your body, and in the shoulder it can lead to frozen shoulder.

Cold therapy reduces inflammation. Icing a shoulder can be cumbersome, but I.C.E. DOWN ice wraps are designed to fit specific body parts. Our shoulder wraps stay comfortably and securely in place delivering the cold where you need it.

Cold therapy gives you relief from the pain so you can move that shoulder sooner and prevent further damage from setting in.

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