This week, Speed Gel creator Scott Snyder participated in the 1st International Comprehensive Pain Management Conference in the United Arab Emirates. Snyder spoke to the conference about the Extemporaneous Compounding of Pain Medicines for Terminal Cancer Patients. As an expert in transdermal technology and treatment, Snyder shared his experiences with hundreds of other healthcare and medical professionals. Snyder emphasized that asking questions are key in compounding formulas for the treatment of patients pain.

“Better understanding a patients symptoms, the history of their pain, and the orientation of their pain can only assist us in providing better treatment for pain,” Snyder said. “As healthcare professionals, our goal is to alleviate a patients pain as much as possible. However, we first must understand it.”

Snyder’s new patented transdermal technology allows for site specific treatment of a patients pain. With proven ingredients that drive the medicine directly through the skin to the source of pain, Snyder is having higher success rates in alleviating pain. For more about Snyder’s presentation, go to: www.snydercenter.com

Yesterday, with Georgia (our PR chick) who was in town, we took the greater Tampa Bay community by storm to talk about Speed Gel and pass out samples.

We met first with Steve Walz, the director of Sports Medicine and assistant athletic director, at the University of South Florida.  Go Bulls!  It was interesting to talk to Steve about the void in the marketplace for postgame treatment.   All of the other gels on the market currently are used for numbing and relief before a work out or game.  However, he was excited about the anti-inflammatory agents inside the gel.   He was pumped up to give the samples out and  see how his athletes felt about this new revolutionary treatment.

We also, of course, stopped by the baseball offices to see Head Coach Lelo Prado and Pitching Coach Lazor Collazo. Lazor, who recruited me out of high school to attend the University of Miami, recently had surgery on his ACL.  It was interesting to talk to him about his knee injury and what things he is doing to reduce swelling and get back in shape so we gave him about 10 samples to reduce the inflammation in his knee.  Lelo also had a stiff and sore elbow from throwing in batting practice everyday.  As I told both of them about the product, Lelo ripped open the Speed Gel packaging and immediately put it on his elbow.  Both coaches were excited to get their athletes on this product to help reduce pain before and after games.

Next, it was off to Avila Golf and Country Club.  Georgia hasn’t spent a lot of time in Tampa, as she lives in Washington, D.C., so I wanted her to visit my little playground and see where some of our hometown athletes live and play golf in the offseason. We also took this opportunity to also visit the Golf Pro Shop and the Tennis Pro Shop to drop off some additional samples of Speed Gel for their members to try.  The great thing about Speed Gel is that it’s not just for college or professional athletes. It can be used for everyone’s pain from a retiree who twisted the wrong way on their golf swing to a kid who’s sore from tennis lessons.  Speed Gel works on everyone with aches and pains.

Next, we headed to Formulated Solutions, Inc., our manufacturing plant, to get some video footage of where and how Speed Gel is made.  We are currently working on a couple of videos to tell the story behind Speed Gel and how the new transdermal technology was created. Keep on the look out here and on our Facebook page for those videos in the weeks to come!

Our last stop of the day was Eckerd College in St. Petersburg.  We visited with the head trainer Travis Irwin about his athletes and sports injuries that he is seeing on a daily basis.  For example, as basketball season is getting ready to start, he is treating lots of shin splints and twisted ankles.  He was thrilled to have a product that he could send home with his athletes. Travis also gave us a great lead for a chiropractor in the area that had already heard of Speed Gel and was interested in learning more about Speed Gel and it’s applications.  I’ll be sure to follow up with him in the coming days!

Finally, as we headed to take Georgia to the airport, I called in to JP Peterson’s Sports Radio Show on 1010 AM here in Tampa.  Even though JP whined about the supposed boring MLB playoffs this season, he likes to ask me questions about some of my former teammates and coaches.  We talked about the World Series, the Phillies run to through the playoffs, and the new hiring and coaching changes of the Tampa Bay Rays.  Finally, JP shared with his audience that he is currently using Speed Gel in the recovery of his recent rotator cuff surgery.  Nothing like a plug from JP to end a great day of promoting Speed Gel!

This morning, I hit the road and ventured up to Tallahassee to meet with the Director of Sports Medicine at Florida State University, Randy Oravetz. A friend of mine, Brett Groves, was an All American shortstop at FSU and I have listened to him for years talk about the aches and pains that he and his teammates suffered while playing collegiate ball.  What a great opportunity to talk to FSU’s athletic department about a new treatment for pain relief after workouts and games!

Randy Oravetz is also the head athletic trainer at Florida State so I was interested to get his feedback on our new product.  The first thing that Randy said was that there was definitely a void in the pain relief market for postgame treatments.  There are currently many pre-workout treatments but nothing besides ice that helps to reduce inflammation afterwards.  Speed Gel does just that with out athletes having to pop a lot of pills or rub stinky menthol gels all over their bodies.

Randy was confident that his athletes would benefit from receiving Speed Gel along with ice after a workout which would allow them to self treat their inflammation. This is huge!  Not to mention much more convenient for athletes.  How many times have I spilled meds all over my bag and gear or not been able to treat myself because the trainers had to administer my treatments?  This is not the case anymore!

I also learned today that the main injuries at FSU are ankle and shoulder strains.  Today’s athlete is putting even more pressure on their muscles and joints as they train.  Thus, finding help in treating those strains is vital to an athlete’s success.  All 10 trainers at FSU are now going to use Speed Gel when treating their athletes.  All of the athletes in all of the sports can take advantage of the relief that Speed Gel provides.

As I was leaving, I also ran into Jamie Shouppe, the assistant head coach of the Seminoles baseball team.  Jamie is also the head recruiter for baseball who tried to recruit me out of high school before I was drafted by the Texas Rangers.  It was great running into him, 12 years later, and talking to him about my experiences in professional baseball.  He couldn’t believe that I played for so long and was interested to hear what brought me back to campus.  It was yet another great opportunity to talk about Speed Gel!

Gensco Laboratories, LLC announced today Jason Romano, former Major League Baseball player, to be the face and spokesperson of Speed Gel.  Having personally used Speed Gel to recover from injuries, Romano is passionate about spreading the word of its unique technology and benefits.  Gensco Laboratories, LLC will be launching Speed Gel in late Fall 2009.

“We are pleased to have Jason Romano as part of our Speed Gel team,” said Scott Snyder, co-founder of Gensco Laboratories, LLC.  “With Speed Gel’s patented transdermal anti-inflammatory technology, we are able to provide additional relief to athletes in all sports who suffer from aches and pains.”

Speed Gel is a radically different way to treat muscle and joint pain, injuries and inflammation. It delivers treatment directly to muscles and tissue using a patented transdermal gel, meaning that pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory ingredients are carried directly through the skin. Unlike muscle rubs that mask pain and oral pain relievers that travel through the entire body and don’t target the injury, Speed Gel localizes treatment and starts the recovery process on contact.

“As a professional athlete who has many aches and pains, I was blown away by the relief I felt using Speed Gel,” said Jason Romano.  “I’m excited to join the Speed Gel team and educate other athletes about the amazing benefits of this product.”

This fall, Romano will bring his Speed Gel experience to professional athletic teams, universities and sporting events throughout Florida. Romano hopes to spread awareness of Speed Gel’s unique benefits by handing out samples and talking about how it helped his career.

In 1997, Romano was drafted directly out of high school as a 1st round pick for the Texas Rangers.  Spending the first 5 years in the Minor Leagues, Romano’s strong performance made him the Rangers’ top prospect and made his well-earned Major League debut in April of 2002 against the Anaheim Angels.  Romano was also a super utility player for the Colorado Rockies, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.  After suffering from a series of major injuries, Romano retired from baseball in Spring 2009.

Gensco Laboratories, LLC is a specialty pharmaceutical drug development company based out of Inverness, Florida.  For more information, go to www.speedgel.com.