M PAIN MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIESCirculating Cold Water Therapy Kit Gen 2 – Ice Machine with Universal Pad 3-Strap Wrap and 4 Cold Cubes (Arctic Ice Clear Kit)

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This item is easy to use and works great. My husband had shoulder replacement surgery and it was a lifesaver. I found the hoses hard to push on so I used some coconut oil and rubbed it on the O-rings. They are so much easier to plug on the machine now. After plugging them on, I pull up on the clips to make sure they are secure. I don't have hoses popping out if I check those. I have used other brands before and found this item to be heavy duty and so much better being clear so you can see if the ice is melted or not. The other units did not give me that benefit. It was well worth the investment so I can have it for other aches and pains.

Love: ability to keep shoulder iced for up to 90 minutes while sleeping. Much more effective and efficient than ice packs. I bought extra freezable blue plastic ice cubes.TIP: Freeze some water in addition to your usual ice maker’s supply in order to keep up with your demand for ice.

I was seriously looking forward to receiving this after rotator cuff surgery. Promised on the 18th at time of order, didn’t receive until the 22nd. Set everything up within one hour of receiving only to have a bad leak at the connection to the shoulder pad. Worked on it over an hour trying to troubleshoot to no avail. Has to be a faulty connection. Hoping this was a bad connection and not bad product for the price. I desperately need this machine so I ordered a replacement. Now I have to wait another week. Not sure why this can’t be sent earlier due since this is not customer fault.

Will assist in keeping the swelling down in my knee after surgery.

The Pain Management Technologies Arctic Ice Clear cold therapy device is meant to apply cold to areas of the body suffering from swelling or pain. I got one to help with post-operative healing when I had total knee replacement done on one leg. Here are my impressions. First, and most importantly, the connectors on the inlet/outlet hoses are tricky. They are great when the hoses being connected are aligned and there is no shear or bending stress on the connector. When there is a bending stress on the connection, the silly things come apart and leak. This is a Primary Directive: Let there be NO STRESS on the connectors lest they fail and one become soaked.Alas, as shipped the inlet/outlet hoses are encased in a single neoprene jacket. Simple geometry demands that if the jacketed hoses curve at all, the ends will not be the same length and will force the connectors to bend sideways to accommodate the difference in length, which stresses everything and results in leaks. This can be fixed by simply cutting the two hoses apart, so each can respond to imposed curves independently. This is pretty important: unless the hoses are separated, there is no way I can see to make this product work well (or at all).Other impressions, in no particular order:A little Vaseline on the O-rings helps the connectors connect.An assistant is helpful when applying the therapy pad.This thing is QUIET. Even the end-of-cycle beep is kind of shy and unassuming.The hoses are short enough that there is not a lot of freedom to move around much during therapy.Insulation of the reservoir is pretty good – ice lasts a while, and the thermometer on the display is useful.Unless you have 40 degree (F) cold tap water, you’re going to need to start with extra ice, as the cute little blue cubes that come with the device can’t cool very much water. Keep it cool, yes; get it cool, no.Now, this is not a cheap item. Is it worth it? One can buy lots of bags of ice for what this item costs. Cold therapy is easy, clean and (mostly) dry with this unit, and easy to control (time, intensity). Would I get it again? Probably. Should you? I can’t make that call.