13 Reasons Your Stiff Morning Hands Need This 2-Minute Magnesium Rub

Your hands are at their worst first thing in the morning. Fingers curled toward your palms. Knuckles that won't bend. Some people run them under hot water for a few minutes before they can do anything. One person wrote it takes "around one hour to really get them going."

Second Wind lives on your nightstand. Before your feet touch the floor, you massage it into each knuckle for two minutes, so your day doesn't start at the sink.†

Magnesium is the mineral your muscles use to let go. MSM is a naturally occurring sulfur compound that supports comfort. Arnica is the mountain flower people have rubbed into sore joints for centuries.

People with stiff hands already reach for these. One wrote that gentle massage helps "with any cream but the magnesium one is good." Another rubs arnica into their thumb joints. Second Wind puts all three in one jar.

Ask anyone with achy hands about the gels. "Not much relief." "At night the effect doesn't last long enough."

A thin gel is gone in seconds. Second Wind is a rich, thick cream made for a slow massage, so you have time to work it into the knuckles, the finger joints and the base of the thumb. The massage is half of what makes it feel so good.†

Thumb splints at night. Tape around your pen so you can grip it. Gloves you can't knit in.

Second Wind soaks in and your hands stay yours. Rub it in, give it a minute, and get on with the crossword, the knitting or the phone call with the grandkids.

Here's the trap so many people fall into:

• Stiff hands in the morning, so you skip the things you love
• Less use, so your hands get even stiffer
• Stiffer hands, so jars, buttons and keys get harder
• Harder tasks, so you ask for help more and more

One knitter wrote it's down to "two or three rows an evening." A two-minute unlock every morning and night is how you start moving the other way.†

Knuckles that "take turns" hurting. Finger joints that swell in the morning. A thumb that hurts to grip. Wrists that ache after the washing up.

Use a small amount and massage it into every spot: each knuckle, the finger joints, the base of the thumb and the wrist.†

Jar openers. Rubber grip pads. A thumb splint. Gels. Pills. Tape for the pen.

Most people with stiff hands have a whole drawer of it. Second Wind is one jar on your nightstand. During the Fall Sale it's as little as $29.99 a jar with Subscribe & Save, and a 150 mL jar goes a long way on two hands.

Think of the hands that buttoned your coat, braided your hair and still cook for the whole family. If they're stiff every morning, a jar on her nightstand says more than another card.

Tip: the 3-jar bundle is the best value, so you can keep one and give two.

Morning: rub it in before the first coffee, so the mug, the lid and the buttons aren't a fight.

Night: rub it in again before bed, especially after a day of gardening, cooking or knitting, when the knuckles complain the loudest.†

No appointments. No waiting rooms. No soaking your hands in hot water, then ice water.

Two minutes at the kitchen table in the morning and two minutes in bed at night. That's the whole routine.

A pill travels through your whole body first, and only a fraction ever reaches the knuckle at the base of your thumb.

Second Wind goes on exactly where it aches, so the magnesium, MSM and arnica are in your hands, not in your stomach.†

Here's what people with stiff hands write about their mornings in public forums:

Use Second Wind every morning and every night for 30 days. If your hands don't feel the difference, contact us within 30 days for a full refund. No questions asked, and you keep the free gifts.