Does pain affect your life every day?  If so, you are not alone.  Millions of people suffer from chronic pain.  It may be your back from years of hard work.  Maybe it’s your knee from your high school football days.  Or it could be your hands from that nasty arthritis you inherited from your father’s side of the family.  Regardless of the source of the problem, you’re looking for solutions.  Biofreeze, a topical analgesic, may be the one.

If you’re like most, you’ve tried over-the-counter or even prescription pills.  They probably worked to some extent.  But as time went on, you may have found yourself taking more and more pills just to feel okay.  Or maybe you’re just not comfortable putting chemicals into your entire body when what you really need is to relieve pain in a particular spot.  You may worry about the effect that long term regular medication is having on your body.

This is where topical pain relievers, like Biofreeze, come in.  Internal medications have a much higher rate of absorption into the bloodstream.  That means that the chemicals in these medications are affecting not just the area with the pain, but your entire body.  This may cause systemic toxicity or adverse drug reactions at unacceptably high levels.  Biofreeze is different.  It is applied to the skin only at the site of the pain.  Menthol, the active ingredient, is absorbed into the bloodstream at a much lower level, and primarily only in the affected area.  Therefore, the risk of systemic toxicity is much lower.

Yes, lower toxicity is good, but you’ve got pain that needs relief.  How does Biofreeze work?  It uses the mechanism of cold therapy or cryotherapy.  The menthol creates a cold sensation.  This cold sensations creates a counter-irritant effect against the pain sensation.  Basically, the counter-irritant (cold feeling) replaces the irritant (pain feeling) in the brain.  This pain control process is called Gate Control, and it is the theory behind using ice or other cold producing products to manage pain.

Okay, so Biofreeze can control your pain, but how do you use it?  The original product is a gel that comes in a tube.  You can apply it with your hands with a massaging motion to provide added relief.  The gel is also available in roll-on form if you are not interested in touching the gel with your hands.  Perhaps the most innovative form is the wipes.  They come individually wrapped and fit in your pocket.

Long-term pain is a significant problem for millions of people.  If you are one of them, and you are concerned about long-term daily use of internal medications, Biofreeze topical analgesic is perhaps a product you should try.