One of the main areas of The Pharmaceutical Reagents Institute Repharm Ltd. is producing of natural healing and cosmetic products, which action is aimed on the treating of musculoskeletal system disorders, reducing pain, discomfort and some pathological conditions of muscles and joints. For solving these issues, the scientists of the institute developed special substances, bisphosphonates, which action id based on the natural calcium metabolic regulation.

The product line of this cosmetics is constantly added with new effective products. One of the last novelties is the cream for active life KSICREAM FORTE. This cream has successfully gone through the medical trials and was tested by people, who experience daily physical loadings, professional sportsmen.

How does KSICREAM FORTE work?

KSICREAM FORTE is a cream of wide action spectrum, is can activate exchanging processes in muscles, joints and tissues, boosts blood circulation and thanks to that has a wide range of positive properties:

• Reduces tension and fatigue;
• Reduces pain and swellings;
• Has venotonic properties;
• Regenerates cells and tissues;
• Has heating effect;
• Healthy influences on the skin. Provides it with nourishments, make it elastic and firm.

KSICREAM FORTE use is indicated in the following cases:

• While active physical activity, especially for professional sportsmen;
• In cases of strains, bruising and other mechanical injuries;
• For the salt depositing treatment and prophylactics;
• In the complex therapy of osteochondrosis, osteoporosis, arthritis, arthrosis and some others.

A great advantage of KSICREAM FORTE is absence of side effects and indication to prolonged use.

Sports massage is indispensable part for sportsman to prepare to tournament and one of the significant ingredients of successful competitions and winnings. The massage increases working capacity and endurance, reduce fatigue and tension after working out, quickly recovers after injures and traumas.

The kinds of sport massage

In accordance to the purpose and the course of action, some kinds of sports massaging can be distinguished:

• Post-event sports massage. The objective of this kind of massage is to improve sportsmen’s stamina, strengthen muscles and tissues for their better productivity. It can be operated on after working out in 1,5 – 5 hours and is a kind of additional physical exercise, which tones up muscles and rises their resistance to injury. Post-event sports massage can be proceeded in different techniques, which depend on the kind of sport and intensity of sport loading. Usually it lasts for 40- 60 minutes. This kind of massage can be indicated then off-season period or then restoring after traumas.
• Pre-event sports massage is used immediately before working out or competitions of in the breaks. The main objective of this type of massage is to prepare sportsman to start. Pre-event sports massage is very important before competitions in low temperatures. In general, it lasts for 5 – 25 minutes.
• Restoring massage, which objective is to restore sportsmen’s stamina after intensive working out. This kind of sports massage may be used in two stages: the first session after 15-25 minutes after finishing, the second session after 60 minutes.

Calcium depositing is a condition that lot of people suffer from nowadays. Even a few years ago at risk were predominantly elder people at the age of 45-50, but due to modern lifestyle specificity this issue got younger and people from the age of 30 can meet it now.

The reasons of calcium depositing

Under certain circumstances the salt exchanging process can deteriorate, and insoluble salts commence depositing in joints and paraarticular area in the form of solid growths. This process causes pain, plummeting quality of life and can even lead to the full joint immobilization.

The reasons that can provoke calcination are the following:

• Bad habits: smoking and alcohol can be the reasons of metabolism slowing;
• Unhealthy diet, constant overfeeding and high rate of fat, fried and spicy food;
• Sedentary lifestyle which can lead to blood stagnation processes;
• Hypothermia;
• Overweighting;
• Mechanical joints damage;
• Hormone imbalances;
• Kidneys and blood disorders.

Calcium depositing symptoms

The first symptom of calcium depositing is a crunch in joint while moving, the further developing of this condition causes pain. The main symptoms may differ at different stages:

• At the first stage a dull pain appears in the joint and strengthens after physical activity, a swelling may occur.
• At the second stage of calcium depositing pain intensity grows, it occurs more frequently and lasts longer. While joint bending and strengthening click and cracking can happen, and its range can be limited;
• At the third stage pain is immanent while physical activity and rest, the mobility can be restricted, the joint deforms that can cause disabilities.

Pain in legs muscles is a common symptom, which can occur by either negligible muscle tissue injuring or serious conditions. The most effective medications for the reducing pain regardless to its nature are creams, gels and ointments of local application.

Which reasons lead to pain in legs

Pains in legs may disturb even absolutely healthy people. There are several factors, which provokes it:

• High physical activity related to sports and work;
• Different king of injures like sports traumas and domestic accidents: bruises, strains, torn ligaments;
• Overweighting;
• Sedentary lifestyle;
• Metabolic disruptions in muscle tissues;
• Bone diseases like arthritis, arthrosis, osteoporosis, calcination etc.

The main cause of the muscle pains is a small blood vessels damaging, which disrupts blood circulation and muscle tissue nourishing. Creams and ointments help not only reduce pain but normalize intercellular exchanging processes and boost blood circulation.

What creams can reduce pain in legs

All the muscle painkillers can be distinguished into two categories: heating and cooling.

In accordance with the composition, the categories of creams, gels and ointments are the following:

• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory ointments are effective if pain provoked with inflammatory process;
• Analgesics are effective in reducing of every type of pain, but they don’t remove the reason of its developing;
• Muscle relaxants reduce pain by relaxing muscle tissue and restoring blood circulation;
• Cartilage protectors are used then pain is provoked with joint disruption;
• Heating ointments and creams reduce pain by improving blood circulation and commonly used for treating sports traumas and injures.

Special medicinal cosmetic products for muscles and joints should always be in a first aid kit of every marathon runner. The creams of this group can be used not only to eliminate the consequences of muscle tension caused by physical and sports activity, but also to increase the endurance of athletes, to improve their performance either in training or competition.

How do medicinal cosmetic creams help athletes

A good treating cosmetic cream has a wide range of properties:

• prevention of muscle system and joints’ traumatizing: this product makes the muscles more elastic and decreases the risks of their lesions;
• warming up the muscles before training or competition;
• prevention of cricks;
• improving of blood circulation: these creams enhance thermal exchange; the blood filling of tissues is caused by the increased capillary permeability;
• prevention of congestion in the musculoskeletal system;
• prevention of such diseases as salt deposit, arthritis, arthrosis, etc.;
• prevention of premature wearing out of cartilaginous and bone tissues;
• lowering of pain threshold at physical exercises and potential traumas;
• removing of edema;
• regeneration of damaged tissues;
• anti-inflammatory action.

Nowadays many people, even those who have not experienced this disease, know the widespread definition of “accumulation of salts”. Mistakenly, patients often associate this process with any atypical pain in various joints. However, only few know the fact that such diagnosis does not exist in medicine. Accumulation of salts is a pathological process occurring in the body because of serious metabolic disorder. The disease including the accumulation of salts (urates) is gout.

Process of accumulation of salts

Various mechanisms are involved in accumulation of salts. For example, because of oxidoreduction disorder during the oxidation of molecules of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, there are formed under-oxidized elements (slags). In case of interaction with acids, they form salt accumulations that can form conglomerates of stone-like density (calculi). The calculi formation can occur in the gallbladder, kidneys, and ducts of the salivary glands. Salts can be also accumulated in joints and other parts of musculoskeletal system. Holding in the joints, the accumulations of salt grow and injure the surrounding tissues. It results in inflammation. Pains accompany the whole process; at the last stages, pains become rather severe. Ultimately, if left untreated, the joint loses its motion activity.

Risk groups

The accumulation of salts is more common for people of older age (after 65) due to the age-related metabolic disorders and corresponding transformations of tissue structures. However nowadays, younger generation also suffers from this process. This fact is provoked by the modern lifestyle including, first of all, unhealthy diet and low activity. These factors are the main causes of salt metabolism disorders. Systematic overeating, abuse of spicy and fatty food, alcohol, overweight, sedentary lifestyle (insufficient physical activity) provoke the accumulation of salts.

In case of renal insufficiency, when the removal of slags is slowing down, the blood and circulatory system diseases with the water-salt imbalance, malfunctioning of organs of internal and external secretion can also cause the accumulation of salts.

Another risk group is women preferring high-heeled shoes. In such case, the joints of the foot are constantly under pressure (increased load), that increases their vulnerability, and leads to the accumulation of salts.