COOLMAN Cold Therapy System, Therapy Ice Machine After Knee Surgery, Including Extra Backup Connector and Flexible Universal Pad Suitable for Knee, Shoulder, Ankle, Cervical, Back, Leg and Hip

I purchased this ice machine to help with the swelling in my knee after knee replacement surgery. It works great. The ice stays good for most of the day. So much better than an ice pack. I recommended it to other friends going through the same thing and they also purchased it. Good quality. I had no issues with leakage.

This unit is a serious life saver for dealing with swelling after knee surgery!!! I have used it 2 and 3 times a day right after my ACL Replacement operation and has helped with pain as well as range of motion. By brining the swelling down the pain is also lessoned. I highly recommend purchasing this unit or ones very similar to it. It is easy to fill, clean and store as well use.One thing you will need to be careful of is to make sure you don't create any kinks in the cooling pad. To prevent this I recommend setting up the unit with ice and connecting all hoses. Then power the unit to get it pumping the new cold water threw the lines and pad before placing it on your joint. That way it is nice and cold and you will know the pad is flowing with fresh cold water. Be careful to wrap the pad neatly around the knee using the Velcro ace wraps doing it snugly but not too tight. If the pad is wrapped too tight it will create a fold and/or pinch off the water channels in the pad and stop the flow of cold water through the pad. If this happens just loosen everything up and try again. Once you get it right you will feel the cool water flowing and pulling the heat out of the joint. Such a great feeling!Also... Sometimes small ice chips can block the inlet and outlet ports in the lid where the ice is floating. Sometimes you will need to open the lid while it is running and move the ice away from the inlet so it will flow again. It doesn’t happen all the time but I have had a couple of incidences with that. Other than those issues the unit is amazing!!!Something else I do is to make about 12 ice pucks using old round plastic containers with lids and fill them with water (think old margarin containers from the 80’s), stack and freeze them along with using regular ice from the ice maker. These larger ice pucks seem to chill the water faster and allow the rest of the ice to melt slower keeping the unit cold for well over 10 hours. I will also wrap the outside of the unit with a bath towel to insulate it a little more. I do this because I don’t want to be getting up 3 times a day to refill the unit chancing a joint blow out when I should be resting. All these tricks seem to allow me to be able to fill it once. I usually use 6 pucks every day and am able to reset the unit once in the morning for use all day. Sometimes I have used one or two of the other pucks in the evening just to bring the temp lower just before I go to bed. The nice thing is I just refill all the containers with water and put them in the fridge and they're ready by morning!Again, I just love this thing!!!! Best thing I bought for my recovery.

Have used it for three weeks and it works great. However, there are some areas of confusion. Here are the Pros and Cons.PROs: The plastic water container is hollow-walled making it well insulated. The container and handle is very sturdy such that it should not leak or crack even with heavy use. The cover holds the pump and electronics and seems well constructed. The display is brightly backlit so it is easy to see in a dark room. The pump is very quiet. The tubing that connects the unit to the cooling pad is of adequate length and is well insulated. Though not perfect, the connectors don't leak at all even if disconnected while running. Others complain of the connectors leaking and being hard to connect.They do include a set of two replacement connectors. That's nice. I rubbed a bit of body lotion on the rubber seals and that made insertion much easier. However, it does take a serious push to get the "click" showing they are locked in place. The cooling pad fits pretty well, at least on my knee after knee joint replacement. The maximum running time is 90 minutes. You can control the flow rate with 5 settings. You get a three-bell warning when the water temp gets to about 60 degrees F.CONs: It works great but it is not perfect. The only time setting possible is 90 minutes. It is not changeable as indicated in the description and instructions. Other vendors seem to have a 30 minute maximum so having a 90 minute max is better. I wish it had a continuous option so it could run all night. The instructions are confusing or wrong when it comes to the settings. Setting the flow rate was easy once you figure out how to do it. You can't set the time. It always starts at 90 and counts down to zero when it stops. You do not see the numeric temperature of the water but there is a old-style uncalibrated thermometer which goes from cold to warm in four steps. The fourth step blinks indicating 60 degrees F (I checked it with a good thermometer.) and sounds three bells but continues running till the 90 minute timer expires. The cover has a rubber seal but easily leaked out when the unit was tipped. Not a problem for me. The description and the instructions indicate a warrantee of six months and an expected service life of one year. Unfortunately, the only method of contacting the manufacturer is via a phone number in China.The water/ice container holds 6 liters-- half ice and half water. It consumed ice faster than my frig could make it. I switched to using three half-liter water bottles that I frozen in my freezer. Running at 3/4th of the max flow rate, the three bottles would give me two 90 minute cycles before the water reached the 60 degree three bell warning. Using ice rather than bottles lasted longer and was cooler but inconvenient for me.BOTTOM LINE -- Five stars. I would buy again and recommend to others. The product is well constructed and did what I needed, i.e., circulated cold water, quietly and with no leaks.

I purchased this due to having a back surgery. I have used it less than two months in. It stopped working. For $160. I think it should last more than two months or at least replace it. I would not purchase anything from the seller since they do not replace anything After the 30 days.

I have been using this product for a few days on my recent reconstructed shoulder. This pad is much smaller than I expected. So it doesn’t cover area well. Overall I am pleased with this product