Cold Rush Therapy Ice Machine - Cryotherapy System for Pain Relief & Cold Compression - Post-Surgery & Injury Recovery - with Interchangeable Replacement Cryo Cuff Pads (with Ankle Pad)

This Ossur Cold Rush unit is a must have for any joint injury or replacement. Simple deign, very high quality. Amazingly quiet, instant relief. High marks for ease of set-up and operation. Fill hopper as directed, lasts 6-8 hrs at #2 Setting. Borrowed this exact unit (3 yrs Old) from family member, purchased it immediately. As effective as the unit in the Hospital at a very reasonable cost. Highly recommend.

Works exactly as advertised. Wife had knee surgery and using now. Nice to be able to just turn on and off through rotation for about 6-8 hours before changing small frozen water bottles. For the review on here that says water lines sweat and leave puddles Says more about their humidity in their house than product do not let that impact your decision unless you have a high humidity home we have had absolutely none of this and I knew we would not. We keep our home 66-70 degrees and humidity at 50%. Our living room were my wife is recovering because of motorized sofa to get here in comfortable position run a little drier at 44% humidity there has been zero sweat issues. We would recommend this product for recovery makes life a little easier in a tough time. It us very quiet you do not even know it’s on.

Fabulous cold therapy machine. Purchased prior to total hip replacement surgery and it was indispensable for use during recovery. Very efficient, easy to use and very effective. So much better than ice packs or bags of frozen peas. Anyone facing surgery, engaging in sports or have kids in sports needs to have this machine

Just a little background, I utilize my machine for an older injury for which I still have pain. I use it every night for cryotherapy at the end of my long day to reboot my injury so I can rest pain free. I have the smaller model of this same brand that I purchased after my beloved Bregg machine’s motor went out. The smaller model worked well that I thought I would buy this one so I could fit water bottles in it instead of going through so much ice. I am a fighter fighter/ paramedic and we work 48 hour shifts, so I was going to take one machine to leave at my station, and keep one home. There is much wear and tear on a product that goes back and forth every week. When it arrived, I noticed a few things straight away. First, there would be some minor inconveniences with the handle in relation to the lid when emptying, however not a big deal at all. Secondly, I did like that the motor is on the outside instead of down the middle of the ice/water compartment. Thirdly, this model has a much longer tubing, which is nice to be able to have it out of the way and not right next to you. Fourthly, it did deliver the coldest therapy I’ve experienced. I was excited to say the least...Then, I used it... This product builds SO much condensation on the tubing from the machine to the pad, and on the pad, that I thought it was broken, and leaking in multiple places. I used it on the highest setting. It literally left puddles on my floor, soaked my bedding, and my pillow that I had the pad lying on, soaking through even the small cloth cover I fit over the pad so there’s no direct skin contact. I was completely soaked, as well!!! LUCKILY, I did not use this for a post surgical wound as the dressings would’ve been drenched. Having had multiple surgical procedures and utilizing several different systems, this is the first that has produced so much external water. I examined this device at length, observed for a couple of hours, making sure it was not leaking from a loose connection, damage, or hole somewhere. I wanted to be sure my review was accurate. To my dismay, this is a manufacturing flaw. ****I HIGHLY, HIGHLY ADVISE AGAINST USING THIS PARTICULAR MODEL FOR A POST-SURGICAL WOUND/INCISION!!**** Your dressings and wound would be soaked along with a mess to clean up. I returned the product for a refund and trying to figure out which other brand to replace it with.

I’ve been using this ice therapy machine now for almost two weeks and I cannot recommend this product enough. I recently had knee replacement surgery and purchased the ice machine to control swelling. Thus far it has performed exactly as advertised, flawlessly. There are only two issues I’ve found you should at least be aware of. One of them is a potential hidden cost and logistical item, the other is convenience. So, the hidden cost/logistics issue. We’ve found that our refrigerator ice maker cannot keep up with the ice consumption rate. Because of it, we have to purchase a large bag of ice per day and I have two separate knee ice packs I rotate. This is why I deducted one star from the rating. The cooler is great, but keep in mind it is not an igloo or yeti.. it is not meant for cooling food... So the ice will melt over several hours or so. If your ice maker can keep up with the consumption rate, great. If not, plan on buying ice and have some backup ice packs for your knee. That is crucial. It is very important you use ice to help minimize inflammation. The convenience issue is related to where the circulation hose attaches to the pad. Currently it is at one of the ends. Since you can wear the pad in either direction on your knee, I think the manufacturer should consider moving the pad/hose connection point to the middle; being at the end, the hose coil exerts a small torque to the pad causing it to rotate until you lash down one of the Velcro straps. Although this absolutely does NOT affect functionality, it is for me a minor annoyance (but because this is a personal preference issue, I did not deduct a star for it). The ice machine works beautifully and I can DEFINITELY say that it is controlling the post-operative swelling/inflammation, making recovery just a little bit easier. It is easy and intuitive to operate. The fit is excellent and the cooler is large enough for the ice to last for hours; we’ll see about it performs in terms of long term durability, but thus far it seems to be performing quite well.

My husband had a total knee replacement three + weeks ago. Post surgery, we initially naively thought that we could make do with the gel ice packs we already had on hand in the refrigerator. No way! A few days in, we ordered this machine, and it came rapidly. (Thank you, Amazon Prime!) It provided instant relief, helped with pain & swelling management, and was overall a huge improvement in the recovery process. It's worth every penny, in our estimation! The machine is unbelievably quiet and performs efficiently. We are using the knee pad. A few tips: 1) We read other reviewers' recommendations to use frozen water bottles instead of ice. This worked great for us! I missed the fact that they recommended using 8 oz water bottles, and purchased 16.9 oz bottles in error. Oops. No worries, though. I found that three of the larger bottles will fit in the unit just fine. They won't fit standing upright, but you can tip them over just a little bit and it works fine. I swap them out after several hours with replacements from the freezer. The unit is very well insulated and the water inside stays really cold. Because you are using the water bottles, you avoid the need to dump out the ice. Way better! 2) The lid is very tight, but I got used to it. No big deal. 3) Make sure that the unit is placed up high, more or less at the same level as the patient. Try to minimize kinks in the tubing. 4) We did not find that we had any condensation whatsoever on the tubing, so didn't need the CPAP covers recommended by some reviewers. 5) We intentionally never disconnected the quick connectors on the tubing so as to not risk leaks. 6) The pad itself has one sort of fuzzy side and one smooth side. The smooth side goes down against the patient, and the fuzzy side goes up, to grip the velcro strips. This wasn't immediately obvious to us and took a few minutes to figure out. The instructions do not indicate what to do here. 7) The pad and the velcro straps are well designed, but are getting worn now after a few weeks of continuous usage. It would be nice if they didn't wear out so fast. 8) If I were designing the machine, I would add a quick connect close to the unit itself so that you could take off the tubing for storage when it comes time. That would be a design improvement IMHO.

Ok, I have this on my shoulder right now. I purchased the large shoulder pads but likely could have used the regular size better and I am 230 lb male. This is completely Silent Running aside from when it Cycles the water pump on and off you can slightly hear the water bubbles in the lines otherwise you hear absolutely nothing. You could sleep in a silent room and this would not bother you at all even when the pump turns on and off since it is so quiet. The instructions tell you to run it for 10 minutes then turn it off Andrea just the pad. I actually left it on for 20 minutes and adjusted the pad while it was on just moving the pad a couple inches on my shoulder they get areas that weren't covered initially. This thing truly is fantastic. I just started physical therapy today following Rotator and biceps surgery on my shoulder. I didn't have this initially following surgery and I was running out of frozen ice packs all the time because you need ice Solomon surgery almost Around the Clock for the first week. I'm on week 6 and I still ice my shoulder following rotator cuff surgery at least three times a day morning noon and night. Now that I started physical therapy an hour or two after I get home I am now going to be using this ice machine as it really is wonderful. I can't stress enough how good this machine truly is. Just remember for certain injuries I may not be what you need it maybe Heat or a combination of both so always make sure you're doing the correct thing. You don't want to ice a back injury when you actually need cheat you could make it 20 times worse and cause inflammation. But following a surgery like rotator cuff surgery you want ice as your muscles and tendons will be burning hot and that's why ice pads melt so fast from the Heat your body is putting out. This machine since it switches on and off on its own as a cycle the pad hold the ice cold water just for 2 + 3 minutes and then kicks on the pump and put fresh ice cold water into it draining the warm water back into the built-in cooler and just keeps doing that over and over. You never run out of ice cold water on your injury. By this a head of your surgery or if you're reading this following surgery buy it if your Prime member like I did and have it to your house in two days and start using it you won't regret it.

Really great relief after shoulder surgery. Froze a few bottles of bottled water. Put some water into machine, then frozen bottles into the water. When bottles getting unfroze, then swapped them with frozen ones on freezer. Did not put ice directly into water in the machine. Worked great. Could adjust water flow to control cooling effect... temp. Insurance would not cover the cost....