Moist Heat Therapy Warming Neck Wrap - 174-101-10

Purchased for my wife's birthday a year ago. We've both used it for sore necks, backs, cramps (ok, I've never used it for that), and even calves. It heats fairly slowly (typically a total of about 3 minutes broken into 45 second portions) but holds the heat for a long time. Caution: it can get hot enough to burn your skin, so be sure to keep another piece of cloth between it and you if it's too hot. THe smell is nice without being overpowering, and even I (macho guy who hates smelly stuff) find it unoffensive. Velco closure isn't that effective and a little small for a big-neck like mine, but wife finds it useful.Good product for the price. Highly recommended.

I bought this because I had been having a lot of pain in my neck muscles. It's a good product in that it heats up well and definitely delivers in releasing moist heat. However, I thought the beads inside would be more evenly distributed. Instead,it's like 3 separate bean bags, one in the middle and two on the ends. I would rather had the heat wrap around my neck, not just on the back of my neck and my chest.

The photo looks great, but upon opening the package I found a large, heavy, unwieldy, poorly balanced wrap worth less (to me) than the little $10 wrap it was replacing. Not only that, but the supposedly relaxing herbal scent is too strong for that adjective and drove my cat from under the covers. After more than a month of use its odor has lessened, but nothing else has improved. Instead of a rectangular shape as I expected, it has a hump in the middle of it, presumedly for greater coverage of your back, but in truth it just adds to the weight of the thing. Moreover, it has individual packets of the filling held on with velcro, which creates cool areas in the whole. In mine, one of the packets, which has two divisions, has filling in only one of them, further adding to the imbalance of the whole and showing a certain lack of quality control by the maker.Furthermore,the packets are made of very light weight cotton, and are sure to wear through rather quickly. The cover is plush and rich looking, but the velcro closing used to hold the wrap in place is more annoying than helpful. The sticky velcro side catches on everything and picks up fleece and threads from my robes and gowns; every time I move it, I have to unsnare that side.  Moist Heat Therapy Warming Neck Wrap - 174-101-10 The glue used to adhere the velcro yellowed after the first two heatings, making it un-returnable according to the manufacturer's instructions. I don't use it as I intended, around my neck, but it does work for my back at night, so it's not completely a bust. Buyer beware.

Heaven, I'm in heaven. Oh my goodness, how long has it been that I've been pain free? Never. However, with my new Moist Heat Therapy Warming Neck Wrap and some Ibuprofen, I am very close to it. After a couple of neck surgeries over the years, I have been plagued with arthritis and pain in my neck and shoulders. I have heating pads of every size and description and they all work. The horse collar, the cape and the square ones, but this one is made specifically for the neck. It's almost like a heated cervical collar, only better. The contour in the back can go up on the back of your head, which I like the most, or it can go down the middle of your shoulders which feels equally as good. I particularly like that it goes up the back of my head as the pain radiates to there from the sides of my neck. I heated in the microwave for three minutes, trying one minute at a time. Three minutes was perfect. Then I wore it around the house for a couple of hours. It left bright red marks at the bottom edges of the collar, particularly noticeable at the clavicle area and to either side of that bone. My husband says not to worry that we are Red Necks anyhow. Today, I am wearing my moist heat wrap on the outside of a collared knit blouse to, hopefully, waylay the red burn marks. They are not really burns, they just look like burns. There is no pain just bright red skin. I like that I can wear this around the house as I do my work. This has to be the invention of a woman with my neck pain problems. Thank you, whoever you are!I can't recommend this Moist Heat Therapy Warming Neck Wrap highly enough. There is NO METAL ZIPPER but two wide pieces of Velcro that join together. Perfectly safe in microwave. I purchased this at the same time as I bought the  iNeed Neck and Shoulder Pro Massager with Heat . It's a little TOO rough for me and very little heat. My husband will love it.

This heat wrap does everything it promises, but I've discovered as one reviewer mentioned, that there is a possibility for the wrap to catch fire. Simply put, it has a metal zipper and, at least on my microwave, if the zipper touches the wall inside my microwave it creates a spark. I happened to be watching when this happened and I was able to pull the wrap out, reposition it so that the zipper never comes near the wall, and now it's awesome. They really should put a warning about keeping the zipper away from interior microwave surfaces on the packaging. In winter I suffer from serious neck stiffness and I will say using this wrap has made an immediate, significant improvement in my condition.

You will be disappointed with this product. It smells great, but actually caused me pain as the design is poor. The contents inside shift to the lower parts of the ends that come down around the shoulders and actually get very heavy. I also have a pace maker and the heavy weight was painful. It is way too heavy for a neck, at least for a woman, may be a man might be okay with how heavy and uneven it is, but I doubt it.