Advil Targeted Relief Pain Relieving Cream, Up to 8 Hours of Powerful Relief of Minor Arthritis Pain, Joint Pain, Lower Back Pain and Muscle Pain - 4 oz

Love this stuff, nothing like targeting the pain. Works great on knees. Took this on my trip to Germany, knowing we were going to be walking a lot. It helped to eliminate soreness. I have recommended this to several friends suffer from stiff joints.

Works better than other similar products with half the smell.

This is a great product. It’s one of the few things that helps for my lower back - and i have a cabinet filled with them all: icy hot, biofreeze, lidocane patches etc. The ONLY reason this isn’t 5 stars is that it has a very strong menthol smell. It’s not something i could use if i was at work. At home i don’t care about the scent and I’m pain free.

Smells of spearmint, works great! Nice hot feeling over sore muscles.

This cream works for pain. I have a pain pump for my lower back, which does not help anything higher than the lower back. I suffer from extreme pain from my waist up, so I ask my husband to rub it from my waist up. The pain subsides 99.9%. For some reason, my back starts to itch desperately. I have to take an Allegra and put some soothing cream on it to relieve the itching. In all honesty, I can't blame this cream for the itching because I suffer from severe allergies to a large number of antibiotics and other prescription medications. Yesterday, I had a horrible fall and, among other things, I hit my right knee. An hour after the fall my knee started throbbing in pain. My husband asked me what he could do to help. I asked him to massage this cream on my knee - very gently because of the pain. He massaged the cream very softly, but thoroughly. I was expecting to start itching soon, just like it does on my back. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the pain went away totally, and NO itching. Bottom line, this cream really, truly works to alleviate pain in different parts of the body. I highly recommend it!

I’ve tried many popular pain creams with similar ingredients and never had any issues or reactions. I don’t have any allergies that I’m aware of. The Advil Targeted Relief Cream worked great at first when I put it on my knees, calves and lower back before going to bed in a cold room. It was nice and icy and on the stronger side relative to other pain creams, but the next morning while working out, the areas where I used the cream the night before started burning and the skin became irritated as my body began heating up from my workout. Any exposure to heat made it worse, I went into the dry sauna and my skin was burning to the point that I had to get out. Took a cold shower and used soap to try removing any residue of the cream from my skin but it only cooled down for a little bit until my body naturally warmed up a little later. The burning sensation returned, although more tolerable and mild than earlier in morning- and even felt cooling as well- as long as I stayed in a cool environment. This cream is very strong and intense and its residual effects do not “wear off” for many hours after its intended duration. I really liked this product at first and would have definitely continued using it for pain if it didn’t have this long lasting side-effect which seems to be triggered by heat. It has a strong mentholated smell which didn't bother me since I usually apply stronger creams like this at night before bed. If you plan to use this product, I strongly recommend staying away from any heat for at least the following 12 hours. If it didn’t have these side effects, I’d give it 5 stars.

Smells like Bengay but does work good.

This is helpful for muscle pain. The roll on is easy to use and does not make your hands stink.