Hot Packs and Wraps – Buyer’s Guide
Hot Packs and Wraps – for General Use
Therapeutic heat is very effective in reducing pain, swelling and stiffness resulting from sports’ injuries. The direct application of heat improves your mobility by stimulating blood flow and improving the extensibility of joints and muscles. Used prior to physiotherapy treatment, hot packs and hot wraps deliver heat to injured muscles or soft tissue, helping to make the physiotherapy massage more effective. When you suffer a sports’ injury away from your home, where conventional hot packs are not practical, single-use Instant Heat Packs are the ideal treatment. In the home a heat wrap - a wheat-filled fabric bag - can be heated time after time to deliver healing warmth to painful muscle injuries and soft tissue damage.
This Buyer’s Guide will help you to choose the best heat pack or hot wrap to treat your sports’ injury, wherever the heat pack or wrap needs to be applied.
Neck
The WHEATeeze Neck Warmer is the ideal shape and size for applying to the neck region. This wrap is a versatile pliable bag which you warm up in the microwave for a few moments. When you apply the Neck Warmer to the affected area, it relieves muscle stiffness in the neck, eases neck and shoulder muscle pain and reduces aches and pains in the soft tissues of the neck and shoulders.
Shoulder
The Mueller large re-usable hot therapy shoulder wrap consists of a durable fabric wrap that contains a pouch designed to hold a gel heat pack. You can heat a re-usable heat pack in hot water (or the microwave), or activate an instant heat gel pack, and slip it into the pouch. Once a heat pack is in the pouch, the Hot Therapy Wrap fits comfortably around the injured shoulder, secured by a Velcro fastening. The hot therapy wrap delivers heat directly to the shoulder, relieving shoulder pain, easing sore shoulder muscles and soothing the tendons and ligaments of the shoulder joint.
Arm & Elbow
The Mueller small re-usable hot therapy arm and elbow wrap consists of a hard-wearing fabric sleeve containing a pouch designed to hold a gel heat pack. You heat a re-usable heat pack in hot water (or the microwave), or activate an instant heat gel pack, before placing it in the pouch. Once a heat pack is in the pouch, the hot therapy wrap fits snugly around the upper arm, elbow or lower arm, secured by a Velcro fastening. The hot therapy wrap delivers heat directly to your arm, relieving arm and elbow joint pain, easing muscle pain and soothing the soft tissues of the elbow joint and arm.
Thumb & Wrist
The WHEATeeze Hand Warmer is specially designed to enclose your hand. A versatile pliable bag, the Hand Warmer is warmed in the microwave for a few moments, before being applied to the affected area to relieve thumb pain and wrist pain, ease muscle pain in the wrist, thumb and hand, as well as reducing aches and pains in the soft tissues of the hand.
Back
There are two WHEATeeze Back Warmers designed for application to your back. These wraps are versatile pliable bags which you prepare for use by warming up in the microwave for a few moments. The WHEATeeze Lower Back Warmer is the ideal shape and size for applying to the lower back region. The Lower Back Warmer relieves low back pain caused by lumbago, Prolapsed Intervertebral Disc (PIVD), slipped disc, sciatica, facet syndrome or Sacro-Iliac joint dysfunction. The larger WHEATeeze Full Back Warmer delivers soothing heat to the whole back and will relieve chronic back pain caused by lumbago, sciatica, facet syndrome, degenerative disc disease, a herniated disc or a slipped disc.
Hip, Thigh & Hamstring
The large Mueller re-usable hot therapy thigh wrap consists of a durable fabric wrap which contains a pouch designed to hold a gel heat pack. You can heat a re-usable heat pack in hot water (or the microwave), or activate an instant heat gel pack and place it in the pouch. Once a heat pack is in the pouch, the Hot Therapy Wrap fits comfortably around the injured hip or thigh, secured by a Velcro fastening. The Hot Therapy Thigh Wrap delivers heat directly to the hip and thigh, relieving joint pain, easing muscle pain in the thigh and hamstring and soothing the soft tissues of the hip, groin and thigh.
Knee
The Hot Therapy Knee Wrap delivers heat straight to the knee joint, relieving knee pain, easing sore quadriceps muscles and soothing the knee tendons and knee ligaments. You heat a re-usable heat pack in hot water (or the microwave), or activate an instant heat gel pack and slip it into the pouch of a large Mueller re-usable hot therapy knee wrap. Once a heat pack is in the pouch, you use the Velcro fastener to fit the Hot Therapy Wrap comfortably around the injured knee.
Calf & Shin
The large Mueller hot therapy calf and shin wrap contains a pouch designed to hold a gel heat pack. You can heat a re-usable heat pack in hot water (or the microwave), or activate an instant heat gel pack and slip it into the pouch. Once the Hot Therapy Wrap has a heat pack in its pouch, a Velcro fastener secures it snugly around the injured lower leg to provide heat directly to the calf and shin, relieving shin pain, as well as reducing calf muscle stiffness and calf pain.
Ankle & Foot
The WHEATeeze Foot and Ankle Warmer is a versatile, pliable wrap designed especially to enclose your foot and ankle, which you warm up in the microwave for a few moments. You then apply the Foot and Ankle Warmer to the affected area to relieve foot pain and ankle pain, to ease muscle pain in the foot, as well as reducing aches and pains in the tendons and ligaments of the ankle and foot.
