Hot & Cold

How Hot Therapy Works

Heat therapy or thermotherapy uses heat from a variety of products including the hot water bottle, heating pad, paraffin baths, ultrasound, whirlpool baths, hydrocollator packs, cordless FIR heat therapy wraps, and others to create higher tissue temperatures. These products increase your blood flow, making connective tissue more flexible and reducing the pain.

How Cold Therapy Works

Cold therapy or Cryotherapy, on the other hand, use cold packs and ice baths to lower the temperature and treat a variety of tissue lesions. Both of these therapies are used widely and/or simultaneously.

Know Your Body Best carries almost all the products used in these therapies. We sell high-quality and professionally-designed Heating Pads. Our Thermophore and Theratherm heating pads are massage therapists’ favourite for over 2 decades now. Along with various sizes of cold packs, we also sell single and pack-size BioFreeze and CryoDerm topical analgesics – two leading brands in the Canadian market. For professional set-ups, we carry products like Chattanooga Hydrocollator M4 Mobile Heating Unit, Versa Bath Hydrocollator, and Professional Hot Stone Heater.