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Heal Your Elbow: Combine ColdCure Technology®, Ultrasound, and BFST® Home Therapies!Your upper arm bone and forearm bones are connected at the elbow joint. The joint is simple but is supported by a complex assembly of muscle, tendon and ligament tissues.  These tissues are what enable your elbows movement; allow you to swing a golf club or a tennis racquet. Tennis elbow and golfer's elbow can be an ongoing ordeal that limits even common tasks such as doing the dishes. No one needs the aggravation! Tennis and golfer's elbow, medically referred to as lateral and medial epicondylitis, are repetitive strain injuries resulting from the overuse of the forearm muscles. What begins to happen is your muscles and tendons become inflamed due to the constant abuse, radiating pain down to your fingers in some cases. In most circumstances the pain is brought on gradually as the forearm tissues become more irritated through continual use; with tenderness felt in the tendons below your elbow joint. The biggest concern for those suffering from tennis and/or golfer's elbow is returning to regular activity too soon. Often you will notice a great improvement early on; however the injury may still be present even though pain has subsided.  The more diligent you are with your treatment and rehabilitation, the faster you will see successful results. The MendMeShop's Portable Pain Therapy System provides you with the tools necessary to relieve the pain of tendonitis and dramatically speed the healing. It provides you with the means to be more than diligent, allowing for a speedy and complete recovery! The faster and stronger you heal your tendons, the less chance there is for re-injury. The tendons are tough dense tissues that normally receive very little blood flow. This is largely why tendon injuries take so long to heal. When using Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy or ultrasound, the energy waves stimulate blood flow which speeds up healing and clears away the inflammation causing the pain. Dear MendMeShop, Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! I don't play tennis, but I do work in a factory and for years my elbow was just getting worse. Since my doctor told me I had Tennis Elbow 4 years ago I have suffered incredibly. There were times when I couldn't stand to go to work. I tried all the different creams, pills and braces but none of them helped me much. Finally I found you. In one week I felt better than I had in ages. By three weeks my pain was all gone and it hasn't been back since. I had forgotten what it's like to live without pain... and it feels wonderful. Thank You So Much!!! Grace Holden St Louis, MO Rating: During recovery, it is most important to eliminate all activities that may further aggravate the tendons in your forearm. Scar tissue will often develop as a result of a tennis elbow or golfer's elbow injury once acute inflammation begins to decrease. In order to maintain full range of motion it is important to limit the formation of scar tissue as much as possible. MendMeShop Therapeutic Ultrasound and complimentary products enable you to heal faster, reducing your chance of developing scar tissue. How to Treat Your Elbow Tendon InjuryIt is important to treat tendon injuries as soon as possible, as any activity or strain you put on your tendon can re-injure it further.  The trick with any tendon injury is getting it to heal with minimal scar tissue formation and with as much realignment of the tendon fibres as possible - something ultrasound therapy is great at! Even with optimum healing, there is always less elasticity in a previously injured tendon. This will cause the tendon to hurt, during exercise and everyday activities. However, if you heal your injury efficiently and quickly, your chance of re-injury later on is much lower than average. Allowing your elbow to rest is always recommended following injury. Avoid all activities that may have caused the injury or irritation and begin cold compression treatments as soon as possible. Therapeutic ultrasound treats scar tissue and Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy (BFST®) promotes blood flow to heal your tendon faster and more completely than any other methods available. Although steroid injections may provide temporary relief from the pain of tendinitis or tendinosis, they should generally be avoided as they weaken the tendon. If you do opt for an injection, doctors usually recommend that you do not participate in strenuous activities for several weeks to reduce the risk of a rupture. Cold Compression Freezie Wraps® Doctors recommend using cold compression as soon as possible following a tendon injury and re-injury to reduce pain and swelling and minimize tissue damage that occurs with soft tissue injuries like tendon tears. The Freezie Wraps® allow you to treat your elbow tendon in an effective and convenient way. The wrap is adjustable which allows you to control the compression to a level that is comfortable for you and the gel packs are chilled in the fridge not the freezer. This eliminates the risk of cryoburn, or 'cold burns', on your skin that can be cause by ice and strandard freezer gel packs. You can also wear the Freezie Wrap® for longer treatments so you can enjoy even more relief from your pain! Cold Compression Therapy works by interrupting and slowing nerve and cell function in the injured area and reducing swelling that can block blood vessels. This is important because once blood vessels are blocked or damaged, they can no longer carry oxygenated blood through the tendon and tissue cells begin to break-down. Without cold compression therapy cellular break-down and tissue damage continues as the cells do not get the oxygen they need to survive. By limiting the amount of damage done to your tendon, you also limit the amount of healing that needs to occur. This is a very important step to heal your tendon faster and with less pain! The deep cooling effect provided by Freezie Wraps® gives you the fast, effective relief your sore tendon has been looking for! Click Here to learn more about Freezie Wrap® ColdCure Technology® TechnologyUltrasound Therapy Ultrasound Therapy increases tissue elasticity while promoting the flow of blood (filled with vital oxygen and nutrients) to your injured elbow. This cleans the injured area by getting rid of damaged tissue and reducing the inflammation in your joint while opening up the blood vessels to begin healing. During the healing process, scar tissue builds on the tendon, limiting the flexibility and movement of the tendon. Fortunately, you can treat your elbow with therapeutic ultrasound to soften scar tissue and improve the gliding motion and flexibility of your tendon.  Not only does ultrasound aid in the duration of healing, but it helps to prevent long term complications. Pain, lack of mobility, tendinosis, or a complete tendon rupture are some of the more common long term complications that can occur when tendon injuries and tendinitis go untreated. By treating your elbow with ultrasound, scar tissue becomes softer and the tissue becomes stronger reducing the risk of chronic problems in the future. If you've suffered from tennis elbow or golfer's elbow for a long period of time, ultrasound can help. Ultrasound therapy can help to break up scar and fibrous tissue that has built up over time on the tendon and restore flexibility in your elbow. MendMeShop® Ultrasound System with phonophoresis is safe, convenient, and easy and generally requires between 5 - 10 minutes per treatment. It is based on a form of deep tissue therapy, which is generated through high frequency sound waves (that we can not hear). These waves send vibrations deep into your body and slightly increase the temperature of your soft tissue cells. The waves are delivered through a hand held transducer and conductive gel that are used together in a slow, circular motion on your skin over the injured area.  Ultrasound can also be used to administer therapeutic medicines into the body. This is a process known as phonophoresis. Ultrasound with phonophoresis is rapidly becoming more popular than ultrasound therapy alone. Using MendMeShop® Lavender Infusion Ultrasound Gel during your therapy gives you 2 therapies in 1. You get the benefit of the regenerating sound waves from the ultrasound device itself AND the added bonus of the therapeutic ingredients inside the gel being delivered into the tissue where it is most effective. 1 FREE bottle of MendMeShop® Lavender Infusion Ultrasound Gel comes with every MendMeShop® Ultrasound System and it contains the therapeutic essential oils of natural Bulgarian lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus, and menthol.  Once the inflammation of your tendon injury has been reduced, nourishing and strengthening the tendon tissue and surrounding area is recommended. Using Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy™ will speed your recovery and heal your tendon more completely preparing it for use again. Talk to your doctor or physical therapist to find out which exercises are appropriate for your situation. Click Here to learn more about Ultrasound TherapyBlood Flow Stimulation Therapy™ After the inflammation and swelling is gone you can begin to treat your epicondylitis with Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy™, or BFST®. BFST® increases the amount of blood that flows naturally to your elbow tendons to nourish and speed healing. Tendons naturally receive a limited blood supply and this significantly reduces its natural ability to heal themselves. And when you stop moving because your elbow hurts, your tendons get even less blood flow. By treating your injury with BFST® you can increase your body's blood supply and increase your body's natural healing power, in a convenient, painless treatment that just feels good! In addition, the fresh blood flow whisks away dead cells and toxins that have built up from the injury leaving the area clean and able to heal faster. Our Inferno Wraps® provide effective, non-invasive, non-addictive pain relief and healing with no side effects. Click Here to learn more about how BFST® worksWith these 3 easy therapies you will notice incredible improvement in the health and flexibility tendon and reduced daily pain. The more diligent you are with your treatment and rehabilitation, the faster you will see successful results!
| Dear MendMeShop, I sustained a re-injury to the lateral right knee in a hiking incident on a wet path. Initially, I treated with anti-inflammatory medication, ice, elevation and knee brace. This injury was very similar to the previous knee injury, so I thought my knee would heal without seeking orthopedic evaluation. I started using a heating pad with a massage feature to relieve pain and found that the heat helped tremendously, but did not radiate deep enough into my knee. Since I am a Certified Rehabilitation RN, I started researching the Internet looking for a product that would provide radiant heat. I was happy to discover your Inferno Knee Wrap. I have been using it several times a day for several weeks and I am now pain free and functionally able to resume all activities. I still continue using the Inferno Knee Wrap on a daily basis in hopes that I can prevent another knee injury. Thank you for such a wonderful product. Rating: Ann Block           |
