Hey everybody its Doctor Jo, and it's product review time again. The folks at
Thermotex partnered up with us and sent us their Thermotex Platinum. So let's
get started.
So the cool thing about Thermotex is they are a far infrared heating system. And
the reason that far infrared is so much better than a traditional heating pad is
because it penetrates further into the body. So it gets down different layers. A
traditional heating pad usually only goes about 0.25 centimeters. Far infrared goes
all the way up to about 6 centimeters or 2.36 inches, so it gets way down where
that inflammation, that irritation, that pain is without burning your skin. So
that's the best part, it goes nice and deep. It doesn't dry out and make you
dehydrated because it's not a heat it's a light system, so it's really really
cool. It works great it gets deep down into those achy joints, achy muscles,
and it really helps to temporary relieve pain. So let me show you it a little bit,
and I'll talk a little bit more about its awesome things that it does. So this
one is their platinum system, and it's really cool because it's super versatile. You
can put it almost anywhere on your body. So as you can see here, it's super soft
which is really really nice when you're putting it against your body and your
skin and stuff. The cord here is also really nice because you have the on/off
button, but let's say you have it on your body and you have to go to the bathroom
or something. Well instead of taking the whole thing off if you've got it on you
nicely, you can just unplug it right here and then take it with you and come back.
So I really like that component as well because if you have it on you for about
45 minutes, sometimes you have to get up and do something else, or if the doorbell
rings or something, you just unplug it instead of taking it all the way off and
then having to come back and put it all the way back on. It also comes with two
straps here, a shorter version and a longer version, and that's really nice
because since you can put it on so many different parts of your body, you might
want the shorter strap for something like a foot or wrist, and then if you're
doing your body like your back, or you know if you're having some
cramps in the front, you use the longer strap to put all the way around your
body. So that's really really nice as well. The back part here this is the part
that goes on the outer side is it's squishy. And the Platinum has three
heating plates which is really nice because then that again, you can wrap it
around the body part it gets a very big surface. So there's a lot of stuff going
on here for the Platinum. Where the logo is, that goes against your body and it's
a little bit firmer on this side so that's how you can tell the difference,
but then the plates go really close really nice to your body which makes it
good because it sits on there and it's very comfortable. And it doesn't have to
be tight that's the other great thing. Since it penetrates so far, that six
centimeters, or 2.36 inches, you don't have to wrap it tight
around your body, so it's hugging you so close, you can put it you know nice and
loose on the body, you don't have to wrap it so tight. So I like that too because
sometimes you can just drape it over something if you're laying down and
relaxing, you don't have to strap it on if you don't want to. And so that's what
makes it so cool being able to use it basically anywhere. So the far infrared
is really good for things like back pain, if you've got those muscle spasms in the
back, if you have some arthritis, things like that. What it does is it helps
increase the circulation to the area and this is really good because it not only
helps relax muscles, but it calms down that inflammation. That increase in
circulation helps move that stuff out of the area to help the healing process, so
it's really really nice in that fact. You can also use it for things like
tendonitis, bursitis, you can use it for strains and sprains, but make sure to
remember if it's something acute injury, like that just happened, those sprains or
those strains, the first 24 to 48 hours you really want to be icing it to calm
down that extreme inflammation, but once you get into that about 48 hour, you can
alternate between ice and heat or you can just do the heat. And the
far infrared is really really great for that. Another one that I really really
like this for is fibromyalgia. You know it's one of those diagnosis that people
get when sometimes the doctors might not know what's going
on, and unfortunately I think it's misdiagnosed a lot, so using something
like this is really helpful because maybe that's something else this will
help with it too, but if it's that true fibromyalgia, again it really helps with
that inflammation because that's a form of arthritis and it flares up those
nerves and it makes them go crazy, so having that far infrared heat is really
really comfortable. It helps calm everything down and a lot of times you
can put it on and then get going and feeling much better throughout the day,
so it's really nice I like it a lot. When you first start out with this, if you
have had an injury or something or just feeling achy all over, you really want to
do it about two times a day if you can and you want to do it for about 30 to 45
minutes. The way this system works is it's one setting which is nice because
then you don't have to worry about picking numbers of which one you want. It doesn't
get too hot, but you do sometimes want to let it warm up a little bit first. They
recommend about 10 minutes, but as I've been using it, I noticed that you really
can start feeling the benefits of it within just a first few minutes, but if
you want to turn it on for a little bit a couple minutes and then come put it on,
you can do that as well, they do recommend kind of warming it up first.
And then after you get you know maybe a week in doing it twice day you can take
it down a little bit, but it's still good to use it every day because that's what
helps really getting that warmth that increased circulation in there getting
that penetration down deep in there so it's great. And another great thing about
this is the cover is washable. You can do machine wash or hand wash and so you see
how it has velcro here where you can take it off, and there's instructions in
the instruction manual of how to wash it, so that's really nice too because you
can take it off and keep it clean and wash it occasionally. So let me show you
a couple ways to put it on all parts of the body because that's what makes it so
great you can use it anywhere. So the first one I like is just around the back,
and they also recommend where the cord comes out have it going downwards just
because then that doesn't tug and pull on it if it's this way it puts a little
more pressure on that area so it makes it nice or
to have it you know wherever it's plugged in you want it going downward, so
it just hangs down nicely. I'm going to use the big one the long strap to go all
the way around, and what I do is since it's kind of a universal strap for any
size I actually take mine just to get it nice and wrap all the way around so you
can see here, it went all the way around.If you don't need to go all the way around,
that's fine but again it's just nice and comfortable on the back there doesn't
have to be tight, it can be looser than this, I just kind of like mine if I'm
sitting up, but if you're lying down you can have it a little bit looser as well,
so that makes it super nice and easy and since it's velcro it comes off very
quickly and easily. As far as maybe your elbow wrist area what's great about it
is the plate in the middle, you can kind of put on either side, but remember it
penetrates so deeply it doesn't really matter even if you're hurting on this
side, that's enough where we'll go all the way
through. So if you're more comfortable putting it this way you can, but if you
want to put it directly on the area you can as well, but remember it penetrates
pretty deeply, so it doesn't have to go directly on where you're hurting.
So if you're hurting in the wrist area, you can just put it almost like a
c-shape, see how that is, or the C shape like that, and then you can just kind of
hold it like that and and wrap it around. So again it doesn't have to be super
tight unless you want it to, and so this one you probably want to use the smaller
straps or so you don't have to wrap it around so much, but you can see that I
was able to do that. Let me show you the smaller strap real quickly. So here and
then here, so that's nice. So see it doesn't have to be tight, but it's still
getting all those areas which is nice and beneficial. And so again with the
elbow, you can just move your arm up and then it goes directly onto your elbow.
Especially if you have you know something going on on either side, it
will get the the side panels will get those as well.
You can also come down to something like the knee. And so again you can either do
it if you want the top and the bottom that C kind of motion, you might want
to lay down or sit down so you can put your knee straight if you want to, and
then just put it on that way. Or if you want to get both sides, if it's something on
the inside or the outside, you can do it that way as well and have a little more
bend in your knee if you want to do it that way. Same thing for the foot. You can
put the bottom plate down on the bottom of your foot, and then just curl it up on
each end, and then just have it like that. So as you can see, you can do it almost
anywhere it's so cool, it's neat. You can go up to your shoulder or your neck.
Depending on how much looseness you want, you can do the short strap or the long
strap. Make sure you don't choke yourself, so you might want the longer
strap, so it's just kind of sitting there. You can do it a couple different ways
some they recommend putting the middle one kind of in the curve of the neck
having the top one up on your head and then the lower one kind of down. So with
that one, it would probably be more comfortable if you lie down on it which
you can certainly do that. And then you can also just kind of have it on your
shoulder area as well, so something like that, and again it doesn't have to be tight
it doesn't have to be super snug on there because the way this goes so deep
down and that light moves all the way through, it doesn't have to be super
tight because it's not heat it's light that's going through. So this is why I
like this so much, and the far-infrared is great. And they also have research
that proves that it really does work, and if you want to check out that research,
you can go on their website. They have internal and external studies to show
that it really goes in there, it really gets that inflammation calmed down,
increases the circulation to help with all those pains and aches and make you
feel better. So this is really really great for
almost any kind of injury, pains, aches, but there are some health conditions
where you probably shouldn't use it. A big one is if you're pregnant. Make
sure you're not using it when you're pregnant. Also
hemophilia. If you're hemophiliac, you you don't want to use this. Or even
severe adrenal suppression. Those are things that you probably shouldn't use
this on. Make sure you don't, but you should always ask your doctor first if
the far infrared is okay to use on your body. Also if you have something like
pins, screws, hardware's in your body, this is okay to use. It might feel a little
bit different, you might feel like a little vibration feeling, for example me.
I have pins in my hand. When I've use it on my hand, I don't really feel anything,
but I've had them for a long time. So it's okay to use you might just want to
start off with like five or ten minutes just to see how it feels
in case you are feeling something, but it's okay to use. So especially people
after a surgery or something have little flare-ups every once in a while and
that's okay to use this. So there you have it. If you have any questions, leave
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