Breg Polar Care Wave Carrying Bag

After ordering my Breg Polar Care Wave I began to think that maybe it was overkill and I could just get by with ice packs on my knee. I am now two days past my meniscus surgery and I am so glad I decided to get it. It really does work at alleviating the pain and soreness. It provides more than enough cold, and compression, directly to my knee whenever I need it. No having to go to the freezer for ice packs and then trying to apply them to the entire knee. I use frozen water bottles instead of ice. The knee pad gets very cold on the front, sides, and back of my knee and the compression feels great!. For convenience, I added an external switchbot so that I can turn it on, and off, from my iPhone! It's a win/win combination.

I just got this and used it twice, so far, I like it. I've used the game ready system at PT and this seems just as good from a cooling perspective, however, I think the pads need improvements. I only received the one in the standard package and it doesn't go around my knee or back. If they improve the pads, made the bigger (I'm not that large, I'm normal size person), but they have too little surface area. I wish the compression was a bit more, but it's okay, not as good as the GR system. Lastly, it's not very cold. Maybe I need to try regular ice in the unit, the ice bags and cubes they sell don't get the water very cold.

It's a very good unit and worth the price, it works as they say.

The product works great and is very easy to setup and use. Water is moved throughout the pad very efficiently and the compression works really good. The motor is very quiet, and you barely notice it is on. Only negative things I have to add: 1) wish there was a timer(s) so it will automatically turn off after a period of time, 2) the ice bags that came with the machine are terrible. Three of the bags got holes after one use, and another two bags got holes after three uses.

This device provides both an icing as well as compression function and each function has two levels. There are many icing machine options on the market that are okay (and we had one of them) but this one is excellent! The real differentiator for the Breg Wave is the compression function and it does and excellent job and is a fantastic function to speed recovery. I am having a second knee surgery shortly, 5 weeks after the first, and will be purchasing the Y-connector and an additional knee sleeve so I can ice both knees simultaneously. This machine is arguably the best on the market at this price point but even compared to the Game Ready which cost north of $3,000 and which I have used at PT, the Breg Wave performs just as well.

Overall a good product. It doesn’t get very cold - probably around 40F. In addition, directions say the product will turn off after 15 minutes when the cold and compression are activated. This does not happen. The universal pad is a good size although the cool water does tend to settle on the sides.

Recommend filling the reservoir with cold water and ice- then waiting five minutes to chill.