Bobblehead":1jszc0cx said:
Imagine taking a step.. and every step your heel is walking on a 16 penny nail. Trainers and medics won't tell them,(maybe) but DMSO heels it fast.. anyone ever try it for that or any other soreness?
My little brother currently uses it to improve his tennis game; he had a sore hip. He also treated a sore shoulder with it. He is not sore any more, but his wife complains about the sulfur smell. But at least he is doing well on the court, if not in the courting.
Our parents both used it for several years to treat their bad backs, but gave it up eventually because of the smell, when their backs stopped hurting.
Many stores, including Costco, sell the related compound DMSO2, which is DMSO with an extra Oxygen, for aches and pains, under the name MSM, which is in many anti-arthritis products. It is less effective than DMSO, but does not give you that garlic-like breath. Being a white powder, you can not apply it topically as you can the liquid DMSO.
I have dabbled with it for minor aches and pains, sore shoulder once, and it worked quickly on me.
Vets use it as a standard treatment on million dollar race horses, the kind that run in the Kentucky Derby; they can't win races with sore limbs.
It is kept secret because big Pharma can not make money with it; it would be a billion dollar product if they could, because it works so well for so many things.
Archie Scott wrote "The DMSO Handbook for Doctors", $14, 2013, 125 pages. This book is written in language for the layman, and I highly recommend it. I ran into him last month at the annual meeting of the Cancer Control Society Convention, where he presented a paper titled "DMSO in the Treatment of Cancer,
Brain Injuries & Other Problems". I asked him what he was working on now, and he told me that he was working with football players, and their physicians, wanting to treat their CTE from football.
I wonder what our BigSkyDoc thinks about DMSO. I am particularly interested in counter-indications for it. That unknown is all that stops me from using it a lot more. From what little I have read, it is extremely safe. You just have to handle it
extremely carefully because it dissolves almost everything, and could carry toxic chemicals into your body through the skin on your hands.
I would be amazed if pro football team trainers were not using it on their players.