Those who regularly do massage treatments will benefit greatly from learning about the line of products known as Biofreeze. This is because they will enable you to perform treatments on patients that might have otherwise have been too tender or sore to have comfortably accepted traditional massage therapy.

How does Biofreeze work? Actually, the mechanism of Biofreeze products is very simple. It relies on the natural properties of menthol to create the classic “cooling” sensation (which is why so many massage experts say that it is “like ice, but only better”) that is technically interrupting the standard pain delivery system of the body. What happens is that the menthol triggers the nerves in the area of application to stop sending pain signals to the receptors in the brain. This is why a client will quickly sense a measurable reduction in the pain they are experiencing within a few moments of the treatment beginning.

Many wonder if you can partner Biofreeze with the actual massage techniques, and though the product is greaseless, it can be used as a lubricant. This means that you can introduce your treatment with the gel or spray product, reduce any strong level of pain, and then begin the deeper muscle or joint work that is going to make such a big difference in their results.

Because massage is meant to address a range of conditions, many wonder what sorts of pain it can actually handle. For example, arthritis pain is far different from the pain felt after a muscle strain. Fortunately, the ways that menthol draws pain will be the same regardless of how and where it is applied. Thus, the arthritis patient is going to benefit from the use of this sort of treatment in the same way that someone with major neck pain or the client with an ankle sprain will benefit as well.

Another of the major ways of using the product is to apply it in the “post treatment” process via the convenient patches. This would be a wonderful way to treat a patient with arthritis or muscle pain because it would prevent the effects of the massage therapy from being reduced by the quick return of discomfort, soreness or tenderness following the treatment. Instead, the patch would continue to deliver the “message” from the menthol that interrupted the pain processes. The result would be that a client would continue to move and flex a tender joint long after they have received a beneficial massage.