Do you need a hot towel or a cold towel for swelling pain?
Hot compress therapy has the function of dilating blood vessel, improving local blood circulation and promoting local metabolism. It is beneficial to recovery of disease. Hot compress itself can also relieve muscle spasm, promote inflammation and the absorption of blood stasis, drug hot compress can also make drugs through the local absorption, to achieve the purpose of direct access to the disease, so that the treatment is more direct and effective. The main purpose of the cold compress is to promote the local blood vessel contraction, control the bleeding of small blood vessel and relieve the pain of the big tension mass, so as to achieve the effect of swelling and relieving pain
Within 48 hours of injury can be used with crushed ice and plastic bag and then put through the dry towel in the injured area, reduce fluid into the organization, can play the effect of swelling and pain, 48 hours can be hot, promote the absorption of liquids. If the time from the injury more than 48 hours, bruises without skin trauma, hot towels can be deposited every day for 30 minutes, towels cold, should be replaced in time to promote local blood circulation, play a role in blood stasis.
It should be hot towel, I don't understand the principle, but I do it in real life. I feel hot towel is very comfortable
