Pain relief

Panaflex Pain Relief Patch from Glax­o­SmithK­line Con­sumer Health­care (GSK) is a med­icated patch based on a unique hydro­gel tech­nol­ogy for mus­cle and joint pain relief. The most com­mon areas that can be affected include the neck, shoul­der, upper and lower back, as well as the weight bear­ing joints such as the knees and ankles. Mus­cle and joint pain can arise from over exer­tion of a group of mus­cle or from repet­i­tive mechan­i­cal or phys­i­cal work, such as work­ing long hours at the com­puter or after a work­out in the gym or a game of sport. It is also not unusual to feel some form of mus­cle and joint pain from stand­ing or walk­ing too long, accord­ing to Dr Kelvin Chew, con­sul­tant sports physi­cian at Changi Sports Med­i­cine Cen­tre and Sin­ga­pore Sports Med­i­cine Cen­tre, dur­ing the prod­uct launch event. Panaflex has a minty fra­grance and its hydro­gel base makes it stretch­able, breath­able and gen­tle on the skin.

Panaflex, from the mak­ers of Panadol, is retailed at $2.95 for a box of two patches. It is avail­able at all lead­ing phar­ma­cies, super­mar­kets and hyper­mar­kets in Singapore.