Air Conditioning & Humidity

Keywords: air conditioning, humidity, pain, relief.

IAir Conditioning, Humidity... Meet TheraFleece

In the summer people are faced with both humidity and air conditioning. For some, this combination causes severe pain. Muscular pain during the summer may be caused because humidity and air conditioning have opposite effects on our blood supply and muscles. One is hot and one is cold. Our bodies need time adjust to environmental changes. If they aren't given the time they need they react in pain. This would explain the gradual transition between Summer and Winter. Spring and Fall help us ease painlessly from the extreme heat of summer to the extreme cold of winter. With the creation of air-conditioning we changed a balance our body's had known since the beginning of time. Today we bounce between hot and cold in a blink of an eye. During Summer the temperature can easily change 20 degrees in the time it takes to walk through a door, and we can go in and out countless times in a day. This is a lot for any body to adjust to, is it any wonder we ache?

When air currents from air conditioning hit the muscles it causes them to contract, causing pain. Why? Because cool is a vaso constrictor, Which means; the blood supply is reduced, a reduction in blood supply causes the muscles to contract. The tighter the muscle gets the less blood it receives and the more pain you feel. Sometimes this can make a person feel like their bones are cold. Blocking the air currents from hitting the skin and applying heat will help dilate the blood vessels and increase the circulation to relieve the pain.

Humidity on the other hand affects the blood supply in the opposite way. It is a vaso dilator because it is heat. Humidity increases the size of the blood vessels, when the blood vessels dilate the blood supply increases and blood pooling occurs. This is when a person begins to ache. Some people who experience this, explain it as a pain that comes from the inside out. High humidity causes some people's ankles and hands to swell. People also tend to move less in hot humid weather. This reduced activity level adds to the amount of blood pooling because the muscles aren't working hard enough to force the excess blood back to the heart. Compression will help flush the excess blood through the muscles and help reduce the pain.

Marta Wood's TheraFleece is a unique way to bridge the gap between the heat of summer and the cold of air conditioning. TheraFleece is remarkably effective. The gentle design of TheraFleece follows the contours of the body to block the air currents, this helps reduce the amount that your muscles contract when you are in air conditioning. At the same time TheraFleece applies mild compression to help the muscles combat the effects of humidity. TheraFleece has a unique way of combining breathable warmth, with gentle compression this helps your body by giving it the adjustment time it requires, as you speed between the hot and cold spots of summer.

TheraFleece thanks Chris for his contribution and support.

The information on this page was transcribed from an interview conducted with Chris Sabourin, R.M.T

"With the creation of air-conditioning we changed a balance our body's had known since the beginning of time."

"Blocking the air currents from hitting the skin and applying heat will help dilate the blood vessels and increase the circulation to relieve the pain."

"The gentle design of TheraFleece follows the contours of the body to block the air currents, this helps reduce the amount that your muscles contract when you are in air conditioning."