2 ways to make a homemade heating pad


2 ways to make a homemade heating pad


A heating pad is a great source of relief for the neck and waist of wounds. Applying heat can help reduce stress or maximal muscle pain. Creating your heating pad is a quick and easy way to relax your injured muscles and joints from the material around your home. There are several ways to create one.

The most important aspect of heat therapy is the ability to increase blood flow to the distressed areas. Heat opens the blood vessels, allowing blood and oxygen to flow to the wound area more easily. Heat therapy also involves the removal of muscle drains, which relaxes muscles, injuries and tendons.

Experts sometimes recommend using a heating pad to relieve pain and urinary tract infections. In these cases, apply a heating pad in the abdomen.

Making your own: Method 1

Nathan Wei, MD, a board-certified rheumatologist and former head of the Arthritis Treatment Center in Maryland, offers a simple method for making your own heating pad. You’ll need:
  • two hand towels
  • a ziplock bag
  • a microwave
Step-by-step instructions
  1. Wet bath towels with water. Squeeze out the excess water until they’re just damp.
  2. Put one towel in the ziplock bag, being sure to leave the bag open. Place the bag in the microwave and heat on high for 2 minutes.
  3. Remove the bag from the microwave. Be careful — it will be hot! Seal the ziplock bag, and wrap the other wet towel around the bag.
  4. Apply your homemade heating pad to the sore area. The heat should last about 20 minutes.

Making your own: Method 2

Like most people, you probably have a drawer in your house for orphaned socks. Well, now you can put those lonely socks to good use! If neck and shoulder pain is causing you trouble, all you need is a sock and some rice. This pad works best if you use a bigger sock, like a tube sock.
Step-by-step instructions
  1. Fill the sock with rice. Leave enough room at the top so you can close the opening by either sewing it shut or tying it with a rubber band or string — basically anything you think will hold the rice in.
  2. Microwave on high for 2 minutes.
  3. Remove from the microwave (again, be careful, it will be hot). Apply to your neck or shoulder. If you need more time once the heating pad has gone cold, microwave again for 1 minute and reapply.
Making your own heating pad is cost-efficient and safer than using an electric heating pad. It also saves you a trip to the store, when you’re too sore to leave the house. Schedule an appointment with your doctor if muscle and joint pain persist for several days.
Dangers
2 ways to make a homemade heating pad

Be sure to follow the instructions for using your electric heating pad to prevent burns, electric shocks, and fire. Never use a heating pad on:
  • infants
  • people with diabetes
  • people who have had a stroke
  • anyone with a decreased ability to sense pain

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