Bruise Control

Backyard Bruises

NoBruise!® works great for me. Twice now I've had a chance to use it. Once I banged my shin really hard on the metal arm of an outdoor chair in my back yard. It hurt enough that I knew it would bruise pretty badly tomorrow (you can usually tell).

Then I remembered the box of NoBruise!® I had in the medicine cabinet. I tore open one packet and rubbed it all over the spot. Amazingly, the next day, there was no bruise to be seen! It was still a little tender, but not as much as it should have been. Three days later, still no bruise, and the tenderness was nearly gone.

I've used NoBruise!® on other occasions to prevent a bruise, and it seems to work every time - miraculously. Thanks for creating this amazing product. Knowing it has all-natural ingredients makes it even more desirable to my family and I.

Thanks to Paul Balyoz
Owner, Fastech Web Solutions
Chandler AZ Websites

Bruised Thumb Pain Relief

We received the following unsolicited testimonial:

"I have a No Bruise story. My mom hit her thumb really hard with a hammer, so hard that she thought that her nail was going to fall off. She found a No Bruise packet that I had left there for her, and she decided to give it a try. First of all, she said that she loves the smell and that it seems to relax and calm her. She took the towelette and wrapped it around her thumb, where she was expecting an awful, unsightly bruise. With it wrapped securely, she fell asleep in front of the television for a few hours.  

"When she woke up, the redness and swelling had disappeared, but there was still a little bit of pain. The next morning, there was no pain, no swelling, no thumbnail falling off, and NO BRUISE. She was pleasantly shocked and surprised. One more satisfied customer." :-)

 

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Thanks to Kim C., Houston, TX

Bruises, Swelling, Head Bumps, Oh My!

First there was this photo of a bruised thigh from a "Dancing With the Stars" dancer:

   

Now it seems that more than one dancing contestant has been hurt. Misty May-Treanor, the beach volleyball athlete, ruptured her Achilles tendon in rehearsals Friday and was forced to drop out for the remainder of the season.

What's more, AsSeenOnTV, reports that several of this season's contestants have sported injuries. Susan Lucci appears with a bandaged ankle, swollen no doubt; Derek Hough clunked his head in a fall and blacked out; Jeffrey Ross suffered a scratched cornea, and pro dancer Karina Smirnoff sprained her ankle.

Last but not least, Kim Kardashian sliced her toe on a broken mirror and was taken to the ER.

Where's the NoBruise! when you need it?

Sports and Fitness Training : Reduce Knee Swelling

Reduce Swelling

Training for the Olympics is no picnic. Sports injuries, swollen muscles, torn ligaments are all part of the elite athlete’s training.

Some take issue with the lack of rationale behind many recovery strategies and the lack of scientific evidence to support the efficacy of using ice and cold water to reduce swelling and muscle soreness.

“If you want to reduce pain and swelling and help with recovery in athletes performing at tournaments then you are better off with other strategies,” said Dr. Marco Cardinale on his blog, Sports & Fitness Science.

He advocates good, old-fashioned training. With increasing focus on delayed onset of muscle soreness (DOMS) by conditioning coaches and physiotherapists, his concern is that athletes will forget the purpose of grueling training sessions: To improve performance.

As a scientist holding a PhD, Marco is qualified to voice his concerns:

The reason athletes endure extreme training is “to create an overload on their biological system to produce an adaptive response leading to a stronger muscle, a better cardio-respiratory system, stronger bones. They also do it to improve muscle biochemistry which leads to better muscle function.”

In its simplest terms he says that we want muscle damage, inflammation and swelling because they acts as signals to the athlete that his/her muscles are being remodeled.

In fact, recent studies have shown that applying cold (cryotherapy) to muscles after training reduces the training gains (Cheung et. al., Sports Med, 2003).

For more on the fascinating science of sports fitness, go to Marco Cardinale’s blog. He’ll discuss strategies to reduce pain and swelling and how to help in the recovery process in his next article.

Testicular Swelling

Swollen Testicle

I never thought I'd be writing about testicular swelling until I read about the Philadelphia Flyers' Patrick Thorensen receiving a slap shot to the groin. Talk about taking one for the team.

My boyfriend from High School was a hockey player. It seemed as though whenever we would break up, and I didn't watch him play, he got injured. Around our fourth break up, his sister calls me at midnight to say "S" was hurt. I'm thinking, "It's just another ploy for sympathy." Not quite. He took a stick to the mouth and, while not a "ruptured testicle," his jaw was broken.

Have you ever kissed someone with their mouth wired shut? It's like kissing slippery rubber bands. But I digress.

I know someone who suffered from a severely swollen testicle as an adolescent. When I read about Thorensen, I thought again of this teen's story. A grapefruit-size swelling around his groin did not respond to any treatment until someone thought to apply a compress of [blank], the active ingredient in our NoBruise! towelettes. Within one hour, all swelling was gone.

We have contacts with the NFL but not the NHL. Can anyone reading want to spread the word?