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What is Ice or Cold Packs?

Ice is commonly used to alleviate pain and may be helpful to alleviate nausea and vertigo (dizziness). Ice or cold packs can be as simple as a towel filled with cubed or crushed ice or available with refrigerant gel or liquid that may require freezing or become cold when activated.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Pain 81 16 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_none
Other 19 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Migraine headaches 19 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight
Tendinitis 19 1 Efficacy_slight
Back pain 13 2 Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight
Heat intolerance 12 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate

See all 195 patients currently using Ice or Cold Packs

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 1
Moderate
 1
Mild
 4
None
 23

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Ice or Cold Packs

Burning Pain 2
Cold hands 1
Raynaud's phenomenon 1

Reported Schedules

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently using Ice or Cold Packs. See all 52 dosages ►

  20minutes as needed 1other as needed 30minutes as needed 15minutes as needed 10minutes as needed 1 hr daily 1 other daily 15 min daily 20 min daily 30 min daily
  40 Number of Patients: 40 16 Number of Patients: 16 19 Number of Patients: 19 17 Number of Patients: 17 9 Number of Patients: 9 7 Number of Patients: 7 3 Number of Patients: 3 10 Number of Patients: 10 8 Number of Patients: 8 10 Number of Patients: 10  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work 8   Did not seem to work: 31%
Other 7   Other: 27%
Course of treatment ended 7   Course of treatment ended: 27%
Doctor's advice 2   Doctor's advice: 8%
Not indicated 2   Not indicated: 8%
Side effects too severe 1   Side effects too severe: 4%

See all 25 patients who’ve stopped using Ice or Cold Packs

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

How Long Current Patients Have Been Using Ice or Cold Packs

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

How Long Patients Used Before Stopping

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Ice or Cold Packs

Always
 10 34%
Usually
 11 38%
Sometimes
 6 21%
Never
 2 7%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Ice or Cold Packs

Very
 2 7%
Somewhat
 4 14%
A little
 8 28%
Not at all
 15 52%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Ice or Cold Packs

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 15 100%

Report created on May 28, 2012.