Thermophore Classic Heat Pack (Model 055) 14" X 27" Tan

**2025 Update** I’ve used this same heating pad for 8 years. I’m 41 now and I love it. My switch has broken twice, but I’ve found ways around it, haha. It still works, just the switch is messed up. I still recommend this to anyone! First of all, I'll explain my pain history: I'm 33, female and significantly overweight. That being said, ever since I got my first job when I was 18, which was standing at a register, I've had back pain. I've learned to deal with it better, but it's pretty much always there. Fast forward to 2009 when I moved and started sleeping on a different mattress. No matter what I did, my back would hurt between my shoulders when I slept flat. This went to sleeping on the couch for about a year, and then finally going back to bed and sleeping on an incline, since it was the only position that didn't hurt between my shoulders. Later on, it would hurt my lower back sleeping in that position. Sleeping on my side still hurts after a while between my shoulders. Fast forward again to April 2016 when I began to lose weight. Of course losing the weight helped with my back, and I also became a runner. Running hurt my back and my hips, but, I figured it was just my posture as I ran, but it hurt to run upright, if that makes sense. Imagine running looking at your feet, it's like that. September of 2017 I, admittedly, was trying to do too much. I was cooking dinner, and exercising and decided I'd go on a quick run around the neighborhood while the chicken was cooking. I fell and broke my fifth metacarpal in my left hand, got road rash on my left knee and bumped my head on the concrete. Needless to say, I was out of running commission for quite a while. I haven't really ran since, and it's December of 2017 as I write this. That being said, I believe me going from exercising/running 3-5 times a week, to absolutely nothing and being a couch potato weakened my back muscles greatly. This all came to a head around October or so. I decided to bite the bullet and see a chiropractor. The first one never took x-rays and didn't ease my pain. The current chiropractor I'm seeing also does acupuncture and all natural remedies. After the first acupuncture experience, I seemed to get a pulled muscle in my back around my right rib cage area. It hurt to take deep breaths. Sounds simple, don't take deep breaths, but, I found if I take shallow breaths constantly, my body naturally wants me to take a deep breath every so often. Which would make my muscle tighten very hard and be very painful. The chiropractor suggested this heating pad for me, as it's a moist heating pad and not like the dry one I did have. Now that we're up to date, I had a horrible, no good, very bad day about a week ago where I awoke at 4am, lower back in horrible pain. Took some ibuprofen but it takes about an hour to work. I realized also upon waking up that from me using a very old heating pad on one spot on my back where the pulled muscle was, that I now had a burn mark there as well as a sore muscle. I had an appointment with my chiropractor that morning at 8am. I didn't get back to sleep until 6am and needless to say, I looked the part of being sleep deprived and in pain. As I was walking out the door, I noticed I got this in the mail. When I got off of work, I came home and laid on it on the couch and went to sleep. It has taken a few days, but I can say that this heating pad has been my main source of comfort in my back ache horror story as of late. It helps to really heal those muscles from the outside. So much so that I don't really need the heating pad until the middle of the night and in the mornings. I feel as I go on, I, hopefully, won't need it anymore except on the odd occasion I do have a pulled muscle. I recommend getting this heating pad, if anything, just to have it in case of emergency. People are right when they say that they keep an extra one just so they don't have to go without. In the manual/instructions it says not to lay on it. I do lay on it, and granted it's only been 5 days since I've owned the thing (yes, it's worked it's magic that fast) but, I can tell you right now, with my back issues, if I were to wake in the middle of the night in the kind of horrible pain I have had before, there is no way I could be able to lay on my stomach and pull this thing on my back. Plus, I can't sleep that way anyway. I leave it on my bed right under where my body lays and just hold the clicker in my hand all night so if I do awake in pain, I can kind of give myself heat blasts until the pain subsides. The clicker was a worry to begin with. But, as the manual says, it's a deep heat therapy and you shouldn't need this kind of heat on you for longer than 30 minutes. I can't even do a full minute, as it gets too hot for me, and I have to let it cool down. But it does heat fast and hot, and does it's job if you let it. This heating pad is not only going to help me, but also help my chiropractor do her job. I was so tense before this, that she couldn't pop my back for fear of injuring me further. Buy this, if you're going to buy ANY heating pad.

My aunt introduced me to this moist heating pad over twenty years ago, and I came home and bought one immediately. I had it for over 20 years until it died and we really used it almost daily. So I bought a new one recently and then decided to get another one, so my husband could have one of his own. They are wonderful because they get really hot to relax your muscles and reduce pain. There’s something about the moist heat that just works better than a normal heating pad. And they are large to cover more area, which I love! I bought one for my dad too. If you are on the fence, don’t be. Just buy these, you won’t be sorry.

I bought my thermophore eight months ago. I always took care of it, and thought of it as a valuable investment --in terms of money, but also because it is very useful in my medical care. It worked very well... at first. Then it started to warm less and less. Till one day, it warmed no more. I did not worry. The manual stated that the manufacturer stood behind their products and that they had a shop in US soil full of workers willing to fix their products for free if under warranty, or repair them for $30 if past warranty. My thermophore was well within its warranty period. I sent it well packed with a copy of my original receipt. I was then, in shock, when I received a form letter that informed that my warranty did not apply because my thermophore had been manufactured over three years ago. Yet at least as far as a consumer can tell, the date of manufacture is not written anywhere in the original box, its manual, or the device itself. And, if the device spent over three years in an Amazon warehouse, is that reason to declare a product ineligible for warranty coverage? Why was this requirement never documented anywhere in the manual, in the warranty text, or the website of the manufacturer? And what about that $30 offer to fix the thermophore? I was instead, offered to be charged $40 instead. Needless to say a disappointment! This company and its product might have at some point manufactured excellent products, but seems that the pernicious temptation to destroy customer loyalty by saving a few bucks has seeped in... This is a manufacturer in decline. Look elsewhere for a good heating pad.

This is the BEST heating pad that I have ever purchased. They are heavy and one cannot compare them to the cheap ones in a department store. The manual switch lets you heat the pad to the comfort you desire without worrying about a setting of 1...2... 3. You just hold the trigger or button down and it heats. It is also heavy, long, and wide. It stays put and can be folded to make a smaller pad if you want. You could moisten the cloth covering but it is designed to gather moisture from your body and the air, so the pad feels moist anyway. I love it! I also purchased one for my girlfriend and one for my daughter and they all love the softness of the cover. (My girlfriend left me so I hope that heating pad keeps her warm!! LOL) The old-style trigger use to go bad after a couple of years but they have redesigned the trigger into a button and it seems, so far, much improved. (UPDATE: When unattended, the button has to be left with it facing up because it can accidentally be left on. This pad continues to heat and has NO AUTOMATIC TURN-OFF FEATURE! ) I buy an extra one to keep in reserve when they finally wear out. I will continue to buy these pads so long as the company stays in business.

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Love this item. It covers a large area and the heat is very nice. The best thing is the on/off switch - you hold the switch so if you fall asleep the heating pad will turn off once your finger falls off the switch. Would recommend to anyone.

There is not an on/off switch. You literally have to hold down a switch button for it to heat it up in order to make it work. By the time its warmed your hand is sore. As soon as you let it go it shuts off and cools down quickly. Product description did not mention this and said there is heating controls on it. When I tried to return it, It says it’s non returnable !!! ( my box was damaged and taped so maybe it was a returned item)

I love it so far, so glad I sprung for this product over any of the less expensive options. The quality is undeniable, and the coverage you get from a heating pad this size is worth every penny. Recommended to be by an RMT friend who has had the same model since graduating from college over 10 years ago, still works great. We used these same pads in the spa I used to manage.

The size, weight and heat are of a first class quality. However, the control switch has a spring safety mechanism which means that unless you are actively clenching that button, the heat pad is not working. It's extremely inconvenient and impractical