RecoveryRx® Musculoskeletal Clinical Studies

RecoveryRx® Customer Survey

A survey of 250 RecoveryRx® users gives excellent detail on how RecoveryRx® works for common musculoskeletal pain condition (i.e. back pain, knee pain, etc.).  In the survey these were the most common musculoskeletal pain conditions that RecoveryRx® was used for, but RecoveryRx® was also used successfully for neck and shoulder pain, ankle, foot, wrist and hand pain. The responses showed excellent pain relief, reduced dependence on pain medications and improvement in quality of life when RecoveryRx® was introduced and used as pain therapy. (Note: 70% of survey responders were already using pain medications with little pain relief).

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Plantar Fasciitis – Heel Pain

A multicenter, double blind, placebo controlled trial which showed that Smart Insole as an overnight therapy was effective at rapidly reducing plantar fasciitis heel pain. The study is now published in the Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery.

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A Direct Comparison – RecoveryRx® and Acetaminophen for Pain Relief

In this study conducted by a physician, 93 healthy volunteers were recruited in this IRB approved study and were instructed to induce delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) in there bicep muscle through vigorous exercise.  The subjects were then randomly assigned into one of three groups, control (no treatment), acetaminophen group and finally an RecoveryRx® group.  At 48 hours after the exercise, subjects were assessed for muscle soreness pain.

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Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness – Marathon Runners

An independently conducted double blind, randomized control trial by a research group in Denmark showed similar effects of RecoveryRx® on DOMS. With significantly reduced muscle soreness in the thigh, the group that used RecoveryRx® were able to run for 60 minutes compared to 27 minutes in the placebo group the day after the marathon. The study was presented at EFORT 2012 (European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology).

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