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Representative Director
of the Inter-American Division of
Self-developed Oriental Medicine Hospital
Oriental Medicine doctor
/ a doctor of Oriental medicine
Lee Woo-kyung

자생한방병원 대표원장
이 우경

WHEN TO USE A HEAT PAD AND AN ICE PAD

온찜질, 아이스 패드는 각각 언제 해야 하나

You may feel pain in your wrist, ankle, or elbow once or is such a distinct inflammatory reaction, a feeling of heat,
twice while playing golf. The first treatment that people swelling, and pain are accompanied, of course, ice pads
can think of is a heat pad or an ice pad, but people are should be applied to reduce inflammation.
often confused about when to use this. Some people On the other side, there are cases where there is a
say that you must use an ice pad unconditionally, while constant, subtly dull pain rather than a pain from a fall or
others say that applying a heat pad to your back reduces sprain at some point. In particular, there are many cases
the pain. Today, we are going to discuss when to apply a where seniors in their 50s and 60s have chronic pain due to
heat pad or an ice pad. such 'degenerative arthritis' or 'degenerative spondylosis'.
Specializing in pain, I see patients every day and see You can forget the pain in that moment, but keeping the
patients who suffer for more than a month, even though temperature low can further accelerate the degenerative
it's not a major sprain. When patients with such symptoms changes. In this case, you must warm the area with a
come to the hospital and ask about their treatment, they warm pad to slow the degenerative changes and reduce
say that they have continued to apply hot pads from the the symptoms as well. It wasn't just an unfounded folk
beginning despite swelling and pain in their ankles and remedy that our grandfather and grandmother used to
wrists right after the injury. This is clearly wrong. If there warm their waist under the lower neck.

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