Hey everybody, it's Doctor Jo. It's product review time again. Venture Heat sent me one
of their products which is a FAR Infrared Ray Heat Therapy Product. This one is for
the low back. If you're not very familiar with Infrared heat, it's pretty neat because
it actually goes deeper into your body about 3 inches verses just a regular heating pad
just kind of gets the surface of your skin. So let's open it up and take a look at it.
It's got the cord here, and then the little control panel and how high or low you can
put it. It has a max, it has a high, a medium, and a low. Most of the recommendations are
to do medium. The max heat is kind of warm, so I've been using it at the medium. And then
it's got a wrap here which is neoprene on the outside and a nice soft kind of material
on the inside where the coils are for the heat. So this is where you would want to target
wherever it's bothering you the most. And you can put it above the shirt, or you can
actually, I've been putting it directly on the skin, but make sure you do it at a lower
setting if you're gonna do that. Usually you want to leave it on for about 30 minutes.
If it starts getting too hot, though, make sure and take it off. Don't just feel like
you have to leave it on for that 30 minutes. But that's kind of the recommended amount
of time. So if you want to wrap it around your shirt, you do it like this. And put it
on. Make sure it's up. You can do, this is for the low back. My pain was actually a little
more in the mid back, the thoracic area so I put it a little higher on. So again, once
you get it on you can kind of adjust it to the spot that you really want it to work on.
And then you can just kind of relax. For me I actually laid down on the couch for a little
while. It does put it a little more pressure on your body, so again, make sure if it starts
feeling too hot, turn it off. Don't just think you have to leave it on for that 30 minutes
time. I also did exercises with this, not at the same time, but I had it on, got my
muscles nice and warm and loosened up. And then I did some back stretches and exercises
afterwards. So I did a combination of both, and it really did feel like it helped. One
of the things that I liked a lot is after you have the heat on for that 30 minutes,
you could still feel that warmth a little while later. It wasn't like as soon as you
took it off the heat went away and then it wasn't loose and warm anymore. It actually
stayed for a little while. So that was a really nice component to that. I would definitely
say if you've got those muscle spasms, that back pain, low mid back. It's great. It made
me feel a lot better especially just that warmth overall in general makes muscles feel
better. They have a lot of different ones for different parts of the body. So if you've
got something going on with your shoulder, with your wrist, with your elbow, with your
knee, they have different products, they even actually have some pretty cool like blankets
and stuff for your whole body. So I would say definitely check it out, but ask your
doctor about it first because any kind of heat therapy, you might have something going
on that actually contradicts that heat, so make sure you talk with your doctor or your
physical therapist about it just in case. So if you're interested in purchasing this,
you can go to our product store. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments
section. If you'd like to check out some other videos like the back stretches or back strengthening
exercises, go to AskDoctorJo.com. Don't forget to follow me on Facebook and Twitter. And
remember, be safe, have fun and I hope you feel better soon.