Acupressure Mat (Purple) Massage Mat Acupuncture Mat Spikey Nail Spike Shakti Mat UK Shiatsu Mat Back Pain Meditation Mat Wellbeing Stress Relief Relaxation Pressure Point Sleep Aids For Adults

The mat is great however no storage bag was included as advertised. Please send as it was one of the reasons we chose this product.

It does the job as in the descriptions.

Amazing device that 100% helped relieve my chronic back and shoulder pain after years of nothing else much working at all. I was fed up, in pain stressed and going round in circles trying to find a solution to a long term, insidious back and should pain condition that became chronic over a number of years. Long story short I had tried everything with very little relief, or at least I thought I had until I tried this little strange looking spiky mat. When it arrived I took it out of its bag and felt the spikey dics on the mat. They were quite sharp but not sharp enough to penetrate your skin. I put the mat down, took off my top and laid back. I probably shouldn't have done that so fast because the first time you lay back on this thing it will put you in a bit of pain but nice pain. The trick is, not to move around and after about 35 seconds that pain turns into a very warm glow type of feeling. It litrially forces your muscles to relax and feels very much like its melting pain. The thing is, if you move about on the mat then you kind of reset the initial pain shock so the first time you use it just lay back and wait. Dont move, dont try to get comfy on it - just let it do its job.. After about 30 seconds you will be amazed at just how comfortable you can get on this thing. I noticed that after using it the first time I got about 6 hours pain relief for about 20 minutes on the mat The more I use the mat the less time you get in relief so now I use it for about 30 minutes and get 2 hour reliefe but its absolutely fantastic for relaxing before sleep and just a really nice thing to know I can go to if my back and shoulder starts to get angry at any time.

So I've had this for a couple of days and I can honestly say that I can feel a difference. Just to point out though that I'm 6'0 and this doesn't cover the whole of my back. If I have it at the bottom of my back then the top of my back, just before my neck starts doesn't fit on. I've seen people say it fits people that are over 6'0 but it definitely doesn't.I have Ankylosing Spondylitis and am willing to try anything that will help with pain. I was recommended this product by a friend with AS as she finds it really works for her. I tried it with a thin t shirt to start with but I couldn't really feel any benefit, so I then tried it without a top on. Although it is slightly painful to begin with, you adapt to it and it becomes more soothing I guess. It's very hard to describe the actual feeling, I don't know if my body is releasing endorphins because of pain and this is making me feel good or if it is about the blood flow, but I do know that I've already started to feel good using it. I'm not saying it's a miracle cure, it's just a good way to relax and ease of some tension and pain. I also use a relaxation app with it and I find this to be very soothing. I would definitely recommend it to anyone with a back problem.

Really relaxing to use, I have so far been able to use it for up to 10 minutes at a time and I love it! Even got my very sceptical boyfriend to use it and he liked it too! He is 6 foot 5 and the mat is just big enough for his back.I bought this to help with tension in the upper back and shoulders which is from bad posture while sitting at a desk all day. You lie on themat on the floor and relax for 10 minutes minimum and slowly the tension just drifts away. After 10 minutes you get a warm feeling all over your back which is just lovely. Very easy to use while watching TV or reading before bed.I didn't find it painful in any way and didn't need to wear a t-shirt either. I slept really well last night, so looking forward to lots of long restful sleeps! I am going to try to do 20 minutes before bed tonight!One great thing about this mat is that it comes with it's own bag, so you can roll it up and store conveniently. You can also remove the spiked cover part to take away with you when travelling and use on a bed instead of the floor.Apparently this is also supposed to help with back pain, and would probably help with aches and pains caused by tension as I can feel my tense muscles releasing after just a few minutes.I've enjoyed using this so much, I'm planning to invest in the neck rest / pillow version of it as well. (or maybe put that on my birthday list).High quality product and great value, comes with full instructions and an explanation of all the benefits of acupressure.

firstly this very closely resembles my friends much more expensive version, so I'm happy with the quality. I guess the knotty question is does it work, hmmm. For me it really hasn't made much difference, I have a large ex-shingles patch, which is still twitchy six months after the event so I was hoping that since its straight forward neurological pain, with no underlying muscular cause that interrupting the signal would work well. In three weeks it hasn't done much.That said I have been using it nightly for ten minutes and really enjoying the time out. I guess meditation is the new buzz word in stress relief and I have found this good meditative practice, not least because you really don't fidget on this!!So it gets four stars because it arrived on time, its good quality and it is encouraging good habits and making me less stressed, sadly however the other half still has to put up with the heat rub stink. ho hum.