After hiking or working around the yard, your arthritis might cause pain despite having taken your usual pain medication. So you turn to other ways of soothing your aching joints. Unwilling, Hesitant, to pop another pill, we make a run to the drugstore to purchase an over-the-counter arthritis pain cream to dull the pain.

Different Types Of Arthritis Creams

Arthritis cream products are preparations applied to the skin. Many of the arthritis pain relief cream products can be purchased over-the-counter. Effective for soothing minor arthritis and muscle pain, some of the arthritis cream products contain the active ingredient salicylate, while others are based on the pain-relieving effect of capsaicin or menthol.

Mineral Ice – is a cool, greaseless, pain relieving gel which penetrates deep to provide fast, relief of aches and pains of muscles and joints. The active ingredient used is menthol.

Tiger Balm – has a soothing action that relieves muscular aches and joint pain. The active ingredients used include camphor, menthol, cajuput oil and clove oil.

Sports cream – arthritis pain cream provides quick, temporary relief from the minor pain linked to muscle strain, sore muscles, and stiffness. This cream has no medicine like smell. The active ingredient is salicylate.

Icy Hot – topical arthritis product has a dual action – it first gets icy to dull the pain and then gets hot to relax it away. Gives long-lasting pain relief for backache, muscle cramps, and joint pain. Active ingredients are menthol and methyl salicylate.

Aspercream – arthritis pain relief cream temporarily relieves minor pain associated with arthritis, simple backache, muscle strains, and muscle sprains. Active ingredient of this cream is trolamine salicylate.

Zostrix – research has shown this arthritis pain relief cream works by reducing levels of substance P, a chemical involved in transmitting pain impulses to the brain. When applied to the surface of the skin, it has a pain-relieving effect. Active ingredient is capsaicin.

Topical arthritis cream products are applied directly to the skin over your aching joints and never to open sores or skin abrasions.

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