BRIEFING Heat Can Ease Your Pain?

1. How does a hot pack work? Hot packs contain seeds that are released by squeezing the corner of the pack. This causes a crystallization process to begin. This process warms up the pack and stays at a temperature of 48 degrees celsius or 118 degrees fahrenheit. To make the supercooled sodium thiosulfate solid you need a seed crystal. As the sodium thiosulfate solidifies, the heat pack A Heat Pack overflow from question 2 warms up. The heat results from the bonds formed as the substance is crystallized. When a supercooled substance reaches its freezing point it stays there. How can Heat Packs Ease back Pain? Half of working Americans experience chronic back pain, so they use heat packs to relieve their pain. Many people said that applying heat in the early stages of the injury can give you a short relief, an increase in mobility, and a reduction in pain by expanding your blood vessels and relaxing any stiffness in your muscles. A large study was conducted with 1200 people and found that heat packs were more effective than cold packs. What types of injuries can heat packs heal or prevent? Heat packs can heal muscle injuries and provide increased mobility by expanding your blood vessels and relaxing stiffness in your muscles. Heat packs can relieve chronic back pain that about half of working-age Americans experience. They can even cure everyday injuries, like the strain of a muscle from chopping wood. Khalil, Bingmon BRIEFING Heat Can Ease Your Pain? Back pain will always be around. What can we do to ease the pain? What are heat packs? Heat Packs are packages designed to warm up your body to stop the pain of your injuries. Heat packs are made of supercooled sodium thiosulfate and seed crystals. When the crystals are released the crystallization process that warms the pack begins. Selling Science Project, HTHI, 2013