Polar Active Ice® 3.0 Cold Therapy System w/Programmable Timer, Extended Coverage Back, Hip and Limb Compression Pad, 9 Quart Cooler, Quiet Pump, Strong Cryotherapy Pain Relief Treatment

The design of this long pad is awesome for hip replacement and swelling (or any other hip, back or leg injury). I wrap it around my hip, or I wrap it around my leg, and can use it lengthwise too. The pain and swelling post total anterior hip replacement surgery was intense. I also had a 2nd surgery at the same time on the side of my hip to remove the 3 titanium screws that failed from my first surgery 4.5 months ago.I bought this ice machine and started using it 4 days post surgery and my pain level went from a 10+ to about a 2 or 3 in just several days and I was able to stop the opioid pain Rx and only take Tylenol. The decrease in pain and swelling was extraordinary! Seriously it was. I don't work for Polar Products nor am a paid participant. I just want anyone considering this product to knit its value.All the other brands have complaints of leaking tubes too. This one gets good reviews. I also spoke with the company before purchasing. They are a small Ohio based, American company and stand behind and will replace any faulty parts.My leg, from hip to knee, q¹was very swollen and I initially used this 3 times a day and my entire leg was normal size within 4 days. I'm 13 days post surgery today and am still using it 2 times a day to maintain my great results and you can't even tell I had a total anterior hip replacement less than 2 weeks ago.The Physical therapist I saw yesterday told me swelling can last up to 6 weeks. She was astounded when I showed her my leg and told her mine all went away within 5 days after using this ice machine.I think the long pad design of this one is so versatile and has a lot more uses than the other smaller pads offer. I can however see the advantage of the ankle or knee specific designs, but for knee surgery, I still think this one would work better since you can treat more area of the entire leg for swelling and pain.I also need to mention the convenience of the timer and the closed cooling system! Just fill the cooler with the 6 frozen water bottles, add some water and your good to go.Set the timer for 10, 20, 30 or for how many minutes you want and let it run. It will shut off automatically but then it restarts after a break. If you don't want it to restart, just turn it off at the dial until you want to use it again.The water stays cold for the entire day for multiple uses.Well worth every penny!PS: If ordering from the company's website, they provide an addition, smaller strap. I wanted overnight, free delivery so I ordered from Amazon. Initially, I used another velcro type of strap that I had, but discovered these I really don't need it nor have used it again, so the 1 large strap that comes with this unit is fine.

My wife had back surgery to add a spacer, fuse 2 disc, and add 2 bars/4 screws. She has been home about 28 hours now and has been using the Polar Cold Therapy system for that long now. It has worked far better than what you see in videos and pics. What a life safer from having to buy ice packs that thaw in 1-2 hours and constant changing them out which take so much freezer space. I add cooler ice packs the can be frozen over and over and rotate them out around every 5 hours or so. When lying in the bed with the lid to the cooler closed you don’t hear the motor. It’s very quiet. This is a life safer as my wife feels very comfy when she is on her cold back pad. We are grateful for such an awesome invention and looking at the brochures, we will be buying some other attachments for other body areas. If you need cold therapy from an injury or surgery and don’t want to swap out bags of ice or cooler packs often, this is your product. Added bonus, can set the cool temp from 1 (least cool) to 4 (coolest using the center red button on the controller. The left and right buttons are for the off setting feature. The up and down buttons are for the run time in 10 min increments. You can up over 900 min. Last, the hose to the coolest snaps and clicks into place with the hose to the cooling pad and there is a push button to separate them very easily. You even get 2 O rings for the hoses if/when they may need to be replaced. Excellent item.

I am not accident prone...BUT.. I have needed ice therapy/cold therapy for healing of some kind over a dozen times in the past 4 years. Ice packs are never cold enough for long and leak. Cold packs or cold water bottles just turn into warm packs. Other cold therapy machines are heavy (and usually after surgery I have been on a 10 pound lifting restriction so carrying the unit to fill it again was out of the question! ) and you need to add so much water and ice just to turn them on.THIS machine is a total game changer! Not only does it operate using a small amount of water (literally OUNCES not GALLONS! Which means i can replace the ice bottles myself and not rely on anyone else to do it!!) but it doesn't have the annoying lid with the 2 or 3 tubes on it that you have to jam into place around your ice . It will fit bottles of ice (I have been using 6 - 16 ounce water bottles and 28 ounce powerade bottles and anything else I can fit in my freezer to stock my machine and keep it cold all night. The design is brilliant and keeps circulating the water over the icy bottles for maximum effectiveness.Plus..to follow the guidelines of minutes on and then minutes off of cold, they have a built-in timer on the cord that you can program to do that for you...even when you are asleep. Set it for 10 on and 10 off .or 100 on and 100 off......or continuously on... options are endless..and it will cycle on that setting..... forever?? (Or until you change it) Turn it off and back on and it saves the settings! It even shows a countdown clock for each cycle of on/off. GENIUS!NO obnoxious beeping when the timer is up or the water temp gets warmer than the ice itself (my last one would beep every 10 seconds if it was above 45 degrees..usually right after I fell asleep!)I know this is a lengthy review, but with these machines, so much can be wrong.... or if you go with this one... so much is PERFECT!The pad I chose was large and perfect for a complex surgical aftercare..it covered from hip to hip and the variable speed (yes! 4 speeds!) made sure that all corners were always cold.Any glitches and their customer service is at the ready to help you trouble shoot and help solve your issue in record time. (Thanks, Terri!)Get. This. Machine. No need to keep looking. This is the one.

Polar Products replied in less than one hour to our email for a minor product issue and bent over backwards to make sure we had what we needed when we needed it. Kudos for the great post-sale support.The chiller has been a valuable asset to our treatment after knee surgery. Being able to provide on and off cold therapy through most of the night is very effective.The experience is worlds different than swapping individual cold packs from the freezer every 40 minutes as we did with the same surgery earlier this year. Cold treatment is more effective and easier to manage with the Polar Chiller.With 4 frozen 16oz water bottles are able to get 5 hours of 20 minute on/off cold therapy. We are using 12 water bottles on rotation in and out of the freezer. Your mileage may vary with pad size and cycle time.

Have been using this for a while now on my back. Suffer from back pain, sciatica and went through surgery recently.Purchased with the larger pad so it covers more of my back.I use 4 or 5 bottles that I rotate with others in my freezer.Usually use it for 20 minutes off 10 minutes on. Easy to control and change when I want to!Lasts for 12 hours or so and I don't have to keep track of ice packs or wait for them to freeze.When I forgot to freeze my bottles I just used ice cubes!100% no regrets!