Easy ways to ease pain: relief right where you need it

published 7 November 2019

Promotional feature with Deep Relief

These easy ways to ease pain mean that when muscular pain strikes, you don’t have to stop. You can keep going with your busy life so long as you can find effective pain relief – something you can rub directly onto where it hurts to help you get moving again.

Your pain could simply be the effects of a busy lifestyle, or from over-doing an activity, such as gardening or sport. Whatever the reason, Deep Relief Anti-inflammatory Gel may be able to help.

What is it?

Deep Relief is a targeted, topical pain-relieving anti-inflammatory gel.

It is classed as a NSAID (non- steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) but Deep Relief is different to other NSAID gels, which only contain one painkilling ingredient. Because Deep Relief contains two – levomenthol and ibuprofen – which work together to target your pain.

How does it work?

First, Levomenthol acts on the pain receptors in your skin, giving cooling and soothing pain relief.

This allows time for the ibuprofen to reduce inflammation and pain. It does this by penetrating your skin and inhibiting the cyclooxygenase (COX) pathway, and therefore blocking the production of prostaglandins.

Levomenthol also enhances the penetration of ibuprofen, allowing more to get through to your skin. Best of all, Deep Relief starts to work in 10 minutes, leaving you more able to get on with living your life.

How is the relief targeted?

Deep Relief is anti-inflammatory and cooling, while the penetrating pain-relief is specifically targeted at the source of your pain – you rub it on directly, exactly where it hurts.

So the next time your pain flares up, reach for Deep Relief. It can help you to get back on the go again.

Where can I get it?

Deep Relief Anti-Inflammatory Gel is for back, rheumatic and muscular pain and is available from supermarkets and pharmacies, 50g RRP £5.99, 100g RRP £11.

Deep Relief Joint Pain Gel offers effective relief of pain from non-serious arthritis and is available from pharmacies, 100g RRP £11. Find out more at deep-relief.co.uk

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Tanya Pearey has been a writer and editor in the health, fitness and lifestyle field for the past 25 years. She has a wealth of experience and a bulging contacts book of experts in the wellness field. She writes regularly for women’s lifestyle titles including Woman & Home, Woman’s Weekly, Woman and Woman’s Own. She has also written for newspapers including The Daily Mail and Daily Express, and women’s magazines in Australia where she spent a year working. She also writes regular travel pieces. Tanya is an avid runner - lover of Parkruns and half marathons. She completed the London Marathon in under four hours – but that was 20 years ago and she hasn’t been brave enough to run that far again since! She’s a keen tennis player and walker – having climbed Kilimanjaro and the UK’s three highest peaks - Snowdon, Ben Nevis and Scafell Pike.