How effective are Topical pain relief ointments and the like for foot pain?

The advantages of topical products is that they are site specific, which means you actually only attack the area where the pain is, not the whole body. This allows you to use stronger active ingredients because they are not going around the whole body where they could cause harm. In some cases, pills on the market can cause side effects i.e. nausea, headaches even liver damage because they are circulating the whole body. If you need to provide ingest pain pills with your topical cream, it shows that your cream is ineffective by itself.

Rubbing ointments onto aching foot joints can be used alone or in addition to other treatments. Ointments may bring pain relief by themselves or in addition to that from other treatments. Topical class of ointments are:

• capsaicin ointments
• counterirritant ointments
• NSAID ointments
• penetrating ointments

Be careful when you make your purchase, there are many company making claims that they cannot prove, or are simply untrue and others that are trying to take advantage of your foot pain condition to make a lot of money.