In this video I'm going to give you my honest physical therapists review of Penetrex joint
and muscle cream. Now this product main ingredient is Arnica and it's marketed for use on muscle and
joint aches. Now I'm not paid by Penetrex or any other companies to do this. This is my full honest
review of this product. My name is Dr. David Mann off and I'm a specialist physical therapist at El
Paso manual physical therapy. And this channel is dedicated to helping people stay healthy,
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out on any of the helpful videos we post every single week. So let's get into penetrates next,
now this ingredient Arnica. I need you I need to talk to you about Arnica just a bit before I take
this out and put some on so you can understand how this works and see the product itself. Arnica
comes from an Arnica plant. It's a mountain Arnica plant. That's what it's called.
I think the scientific name is Montana Arnica. And it looks like a flower yellow flower plants. And
when this plant is broken down, you can get the compound Arnica out of it. And that's what's used
as a main ingredient in Penn attracts. And there's some other active ingredients in here. And it says
here on the front, vitamin B six, as well as MSM, which stands for methyl sulphonyl methane, I might
have butchered that. I'm not a pharmacist, I'm not with the 15 syllable words, I can't quite keep up.
But I'll tell you about them. I know about them. Vitamin B six is known as a mood enhancer. It's
used for a variety of other things. Something else that's notable is going to be rheumatoid arthritis
relief from rheumatoid arthritis inflammation. So that's, I assume that one of the reasons why
they put vitamin B six in here, and then MSM, the methyl sulphonyl methane is known to have an anti
inflammatory effect on things like tendinitis, bursitis, and arthritis. So that's why they've
mixed that into this product here. And this is a cream so it's a water based cream rather than
a salve or a bomb, which is an oil based product. So this does not leave any residue on your skin,
it's absorbed by your skin. And so there's low risk of you staining your clothes or just feeling
slippery. Now the odor is a lot less than some of the other things out there. This doesn't have
menthol or mint stuff in it, a lot of it anyway, has a little bit,
but not enough to make it very powerful to where everyone knows that you put something on this kind
of diminishes real quick and it doesn't really carry an odor with you. Now some side effects
for this, the only side effect they list on here is skin irritation. And so my assumption is if
you've got an allergy to one of the products in here, one of the components of this then your
skin might get red you might get irritated and you may get bumps or like a rash looking
skin or you could also get itchy if you get any of those symptoms and you should not continue using a
Penetrex. You should avoid it. But it's rare to get that and for most people, I see clients that
have told me about this and their success with using it, it really doesn't cause any sort of side
effects. So they got to put that on there for the one less than 1% of people they get those effects.
They don't have any other side effects to it. This is a natural product I would classify this
as a natural product. So it's tolerated by the body pretty well. So let's open it up
and show you how to use this see what it looks like. I've already opened this. I've
mentioned this before but I just wanted to see if you to change it on sustainable Pena tracks.
Just to show you what it looks like it looks like a cream the this little container looks like a
like a little cream container lotion container. And there it is right there. It's white. It's got
a very subtle smell to it. If I'm this far away from it, I can't really smell it I have to put
my nose pretty much on it in order to smell it and that's how weak it is in odor. And then when you
get some if you're going to put this on for the first time, let me use my other hand.
Just get a little, a little bit like that and rub it on an area and rub it in you have to
rub it in so that it is absorbed by your skin. But the remaining back here and you would do
this just to test your skin on it. To make sure you're not going to get any sort of irritation.
So rub that in once all the white goes away, you don't have any clumps of the penetrates on you
then set a 10 minute timer if you're concerned and go for a full hour and see if you get any redness,
irritation or bother, you're probably going to clear out just fine and not have any issues with
it. If you do, of course, take this back, return it or, or avoid using a gifted somebody else who
might not have any reactions to it, because they might benefit from it. But if you're good to go,
you don't have any reactions, that then you got to get a little bit more, it'd be like that is I'm
just going to use my risk. So if I was putting it like on my back, I put a lot on a leg muscle,
or my upper arm muscles, you know, the bigger part of your body, but not down in a wrist or a hand,
you just need a little more than a dollop. And you got to rub this in, let me put this down.
You got to rub this in effectively, I would massage a bit and just get it in
there and keep rubbing, it won't take you more than a minute, but rub until
it dissolves all the way you don't have any more clumps. And you'll see after about 30 seconds,
maybe even a little bit less, your skin starts to absorb this, you won't have a film
on your skin of like an oil, or like a salve a bomb that leaves an oil which some people like
if you're concerned about seeing your clothes, or just feeling slippery or having a heavy odor,
this does not stain your clothes or feel slippery. Like right now it feels
like my skin's just moisturize now not necessarily like I have oil on it or anything like that. And
what the instructions say is to rub this in three to four times a day. So if that was the first time
I'm doing it tonight, today, I'd be looking at doing this a few more times. And then to continue
that process, keep putting it in three to four times a day on your painful body area for seven to
10 days. So it seems like this needs to build up onto your skin in order for it to penetrate enough
to get the effect that you're looking for of the pain relief. So it's not enough to just put
this on for one day or two days, you have to commit to putting it on for seven to 10 days.
So depending on the size of body area that you're dealing with, you might consider getting a bigger
container, this is two ounces right here, they do sell it, I saw an eight ounces,
a container at the store. I haven't seen anything bigger than that. But um, maybe
it's available out there. But if you're going to be putting it on big leg muscles, hip muscles,
your back, of course, you want to probably get a bit more so that you can endure the seven days
and truly put it to the test. Now relative to pain medication, this is a little less expensive than
if you were to get a supply of over the counter pain medications. And obviously, it's natural.
So you know, there's less risk for injuring your organs with this. Let me give you my honest
opinion about this. I love that the natural side of this. I'm all for trying out as many natural
products as you can pain relieving products, so that you can reduce your dependency on
over the counter pain medications as well as prescription strength pain medications, if you're
somebody that goes to the doctor for injections, or you're considering having a surgery, then you
really need to put this to the test exhausts your options like this your pain creams that might be
a benefit to you. But you just have to realize that this is not going to give you a long term
relief if you got like arthritis, for instance, and you're in somewhere in your body and your hip
joints, shoulder joints or your spine, your neck somewhere like that, maybe not in your knees or
ankles or feet or hands. This might be something to take the edge off so that you can get through
the day and not get so flared up and tolerate life a bit more and maybe sleep a bit better at nights
and it's not going to damage your internal organs as much. But you need to still pay attention
to fixing the long term problem which usually requires you looking at the muscle imbalances in
the area which we talked at length about on this channel. So if you want to learn more about fixing
the long term problem, then make sure you go to our playlist tab or go down into the description
below here and find the playlist tab link and then find your body partner and other option you can do
is go up to the search bar in YouTube and type in El Paso manual physical therapy and then the body
part like hip pain or knee pain or hip arthritis or back problems or degenerative disc disease.
There's we've made videos on tons of things and chances are we can help you out if you just search
for our videos. So I hope this video was helpful for you learning about penetrates, seen how it
works and learning about the active ingredients and side effects. If you thought it was helpful,
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