Icy Hot Sleeve Not So Good By mickeem on - Updated Sep 18, 2011
Well, this is a very new review, since I just bought this product, and tried it out last night. So this is all fresh in my mind.
I had pulled my knee, after i tripped walking my dog. I thought, hey, I will try this icy/hot sleeve, I have seen on TV!. I made sure I purchased the Large size, as it says it fits knees, and elbows. GREAT!.
Nope, not so great. The sleeve is made of a very thin web-like material, and its stretchy.
However, as soon as you pull it up your leg, and over your knee, it stretches out, and then is loose, and falls back down, or rolls down your leg. This makes this useless if it wont stay on your knee. I imagine this would work better if it was on your elbow, as it would not stretch out quite so far.
The heating/icy element was hot, and that was nice, but I had to use some first aid tape, to keep the thing from rolling down my leg, while I was trying it out.
My knees arent that large, and with the picture of SHAQ on the front of the box, you would think he has larger legs, and knees than I do!
So, in my opinion, I will stick with the heat wraps that are sticky, and not these sleeves.
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Icy/Hot Large Sleeve Purchased at: cvs Price: 9.00
Thanks for the info. We like Icy/Hot, so might have been tempted to try this.
Thanks for the honest information about this product. I have wondered if it was a good one or not. My hubby was wanting to try it. I will now tell him to leave this one alone.
Thanks for sharing the truth about this product with us so that we can avoid buying products that dose not work as claimed.
That is the exactly what happened to me when I tried this-it stretched out & fell right back down!!
It sounds like these were never tested before being sold! Once you said what happened to you, it made total sense because those types of "fabric" that they use for these products do not retract once stretched out. It would have been better if they gave you a real ace bandage type knee support that was specially designed to fit the icy hot active part of the sleeve into. Maybe they will figure it out....
I am always looking for reviews for these types of products since good ones are hard to find and I feel like I am wasting money sometimes. Thanks for the review.