Dear MendMeShop, I am certified in Rolfing, a form of deep, integrative bodywork and Massage. I use my hands alot for this work. Last September I broke my cardinal rule to limit activities outside work that would stress my hands. I laid down a bamboo floor on two stories of my house. I used a jigsaw and hydraulic nail gun which were hard on my hands. Shortly after completing the work, my right thumb gave out. It would either click and hang up when I bent it or lock up completely and refuse to bend at all. It was stiff and painful.
After trying a number of home remedies including rest, ice, heat, essential oils, and manual manipulation, I finally went to see a hand doctor and yes, you guessed it, my choice was surgery or cortisone shots which are only effective in about a third of the cases. His diagnosis was "trigger thumb." The tendon was damaged, swollen and scarred, creating a lump so it would no longer move easily through the tendon sheath. The operation did not remove the lump, but rather slit the tendon sheath so the lump could move unimpeded. Well, that did not sound so great to me, as I think about fluids that the sheath contains and how the dynamics of my thumb may change forever. Having worked with many clients over the last ten years, I have seen how the body never really goes back to factory spec after a surgery, so if there were any other solutions, I wanted to find them.
In March I found Mend Me Shop's website and read about the portable Ultrasound Machine. I ordered it that day along with a supply of gel. I have had consistent improvement in my thumb. I maintained the same work schedule and began their treatment protocol. At first I noticed the general tightness and swelling went down, then I noticed that the strength was returning. Some time after that, my thumb began to move again, sometime with clicking and sometime without. I have done several thirty day protocols so far and I am absolutely certain that my thumb will heal completely. The other day I had a totally normal thumb for the entire day, which delighted me and is a good indication of the healing that is taking place. We are often too much in a hurry to fix things, and rush into surgery or harmful medications. The body has enormous capabilities to heal and sometimes needs just a little help and patience.
I find the staff at Mend Me Shop extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Customer Service is obviously a very important thing to them, which I appreciate, as that is how I treat my clients and it is nice to find that level of service me.
I hope if you are reading this that you give this unit a try. The ability to apply the treatment yourself is not only cost effective, but also better from a healing perspective because as you follow the treatment protocol outlined for your condition, you can see and feel the accumulative effect. This would be difficult, not to mention expensive, if you had to go to an outside service. Rating:  Rita Singh |
Heal Your Sciatica
Combine Ultrasound and Thermal Wrap
Home Therapies!
Do you suffer from back pain or sciatica? If you do you've been probably suffering from debilating pain for a very long time. As you've no doubt heard by now, home ultrasound therapy is changing the lives of back pain sufferers everywhere.
Are you looking for the latest and greatest in pain relief? Many of us are in pain, making getting through a work day, time with the kids or getting through a workout routine just that much harder. There is no need to let pain control every moment of your life. Presenting the MendMeShop Portable Pain Therapy System! You too can feel the amazing benefits of ultrasound therapy right in your home!
We rely on a healthy back everyday. It is essential for work, sports, and every-day getting around. Whether you are playing with the kids, hauling lumber, or training for a big event, you are utterly dependent on the health of your back. Unfortunately, this leaves the supportive tissues of the back vulnerable to injury. Muscle strains of the lower back are most common and as with most back injuries can be prevented by good body mechanics. This includes, bending at the knees when lifting from the ground, standing and sitting with good posture, warming-up and stretching before exercise, and sleeping on a firm mattress. These simple measures for avoiding back injury can work wonders! However, sometimes these injuries are unavoidable. In fact, one-half of all working Americans admit to having back symptoms each year. It is no wonder then that back pain accounts for most health care visits and missed work. Most commonly back pain is brought on by a singular event that proves to be too much for the back's supportive muscle tissue. However, back pain isn't always brought on by a strained or torn muscle. Other causes of back pain include: herniated disk, sciatica, spinal stenosis, spondylosis, spondylolithesis, and spinal infections.
Dear MendMeShop,
I've been playing hockey for 30+ years. All those years of fun and abuse are starting to add up. I love to play but my legs, back and shoulders have become a constant source of pain.
From too many sessions of Physical Therapy over the years I knew ultrasound works, so I thought that maybe I could find a unit I could use at home. One Google search later I found your site and am I ever glad I did.
I bought an ultrasound unit and I find it even better than the sessions I got from my PT (is it the gel?). I figured your unit worked so good I'd try a couple more of your toys. That radiant heat thing on my back is amazing. I got it because it was impossible to ultrasound my own back but now I'm finding I use both units all over. What a great combination.
Thanks a ton. Your products will keep me in the game for a lot more years to come.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
Gilles Lefebvre
Montreal, Canada
Fortunately, most sciatic symptoms result from an irritated or inflamed muscle around the sciatic nerve, the main nerve that runs from your spinal cord and down into your legs. When the sciatic nerve is aggravated it radiates pain from the lower back all the way down into the toes, in some cases. Though sciatica often gets better without any treatment, the healing process can be enhanced by a diligent treatment regimen.
The MendMeShop Portable Ultrasound Therapy System provides you with the tools necessary to relieve sciatic nerve pain and dramatically speed the healing of any tissue inflammation. When using radiant energy or ultrasound, the energy waves stimulate blood flow which speeds up healing and clears away the pain causing inflammation. Beginning with your very first treatment you will feel the relief - the power - of ultrasound therapy. Ultrasound waves travel deep into your body, over 3 inches deep, delivering therapeutic benefits to the source of the pain.
 Our Ultrasound system comes with a specially formulated gel which contains naturally-based, pain relieving, anti-inflammatory ingredients. The ultrasound unit actually drives the pain relieving ingredients deep into injured tissue (a process known medically as phonophoresis) giving you the pain relief where you need it. In effect, you receive enhanced ultrasound therapy treatment every session! The MendMeShop Portable Ultrasound Device is a product that is prescribed by doctors and used in physical therapy and chiropractic clinics. MendMeShop Lavender Infusion Gel is a professional product for professional quality treatments. It's powerful, effective, hypoallergenic, and it works! Now, the tremendous benefits of therapeutic ultrasound and phonophoresis are available to you. And we back our products with a 100% Money Back Guarantee.
Upon injuring your back, cold therapy will reduce initial inflammation, a key component for pain relief and healing. They work because they interrupt and slow nerve and cell function in the damaged area. Once blood vessels are damaged they can no longer carry oxygenated blood to the damaged tissue and therefore cells begin to break-down. The deep cold provided by our cold/warm compression wraps slows cell function thereby reducing cellular break-down. Furthermore, because the cold wraps serve to numb the nerves the wraps also reduce pain! After the initial stages of swelling have been controlled it is then beneficial to apply heat to the area. Heat promotes blood flow which will flush the injured tissues of cellular waste, while providing nutrients to the torn tissues.
 Our cold/warm compression wraps are state of the art! The high quality plush neoprene design allows for a tighter and more comfortable fit for optimized compression therapy. And unlike other wraps on the market it will fit tight against the contours of your back, making use of the wrap's entire healing surface! On top of that, the wrap's compartmental gel design, and soft-suspended gel means you get the therapy exactly where you need it, hot or cold! Put simply, when you apply the wrap to your body, the gel is forced to stay in place - over your injured area. There is nothing else available like it!
Therapeutic Products
Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy
You can help your body repair itself by speeding its natural healing process using an Inferno Wrap™. The Inferno Wrap's patented design delivers the most effective Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy you can find.
During normal activities, the movement promotes blood flow through our body. Our body responds to the movement by sending oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the muscles, joints, tendons and other soft tissue in the body.
When at rest, the blood flow to your tendons is greatly reduced. Unfortunately, when your tendon is injured it requires rest but it also needs the blood flow to promote the healing process. Since you can't work your tendon without danger of further injury, you need to stimulate the blood flow another way.
Our innovative Inferno Wrap™ gives you the best Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy available. The Inferno Wrap™ creates energy waves that stimulate blood flow by penetrating through the outer layers of your body. The energy waves reach deep into your muscles, tendons and cartilage, reducing your pain as they heal the inner tissue.
An Inferno Wrap™ gives you unparalleled blood flow stimulation to your injured tendon. You simply won't find a comparable product on the market. Other therapy products can not come close to offering the comfortable, contoured fit and targeted energy treatment an Inferno Wrap™ provides.
You will experience a soothing, penetrating warmth deep in the tissue as it works to stimulate your blood flow, we guarantee it. Now you can reduce your pain and heal yourself with the comfortable, light weight Inferno Wrap™.
The Inferno Wrap™ provides effective, non-invasive, non-addictive pain relief with no side effects.
When your tendon has healed somewhat and it comes time for more aggressive rehabilitation, stretching and activity, Blood Flow Stimultation Therapy warms the muscles in the injured area which increases range of motion and allows for a safer more thorough stretch.
Therapeutic Ultrasound
Ultrasound Therapy is also a great tool for pain prevention of tendonitis or healing a tendon tear, and having a therapeutic ultrasound device at home can be a powerful and convenient treatment tool. If you have symptoms of tendonitis or are recovering from a tendon injury, using ultrasound on a regular basis before your activity or throughout the day will help relax your tendons and muscles, diminish pain and inflammation, soften scar tissue and contribute greatly to the healing of your injury.
Therapeutic Ultrasound heats and massages your soft tissue giving you three primary benefits. First, it increases blood flow in the treated area which speeds your body's natural healing process. Second, it reduces swelling and edema which are the main sources of pain. Third, ultrasound softens existing scar tissue and minimizes the build up of new scar tissue resulting in reduced pain while healing and greater flexibility once healing is complete.
 Eucalyptus...
It's in our Gel!
Ultrasound can also be used to administer therapeutic medicines into the body. This is a process known as phonophoresis. Ultrasound with Phonophoresis is rapidly becoming more popular than Ultrasound Therapy alone.
 Peppermint...
It's in our gel too! Our MendMeShop Lavender Infusion Gel is the only topical therapeutic gel that is also a Phonophoretic Ultrasound Gel. It is made with natural medical ingredients including eucalyptus, peppermint, Bulgarian lavender and menthol. These effective ingredients have anesthetic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, decongestant, and circulatory stimulant properties. When applied topically and massaged into the skin, MendMeShop Lavender Infusion Gel relieves pain and speeds healing without any side-effects.
Cold Compression Therapy
Our cold compression wraps work by interrupting and slowing nerve and cell function in the area of your injured tendon. Once blood vessels are damaged they can no longer carry oxygenated blood to the damaged tissue and therefore cells begin to break-down. The deep cold provided by our cold compression wraps slows cell function thereby reducing cellular break-down. Furthermore, because the cold wraps serve to numb the nerves, the wraps also reduce pain!
We have noticed over time that our customers are so fond of our cold wraps that they are frequently coming back and ordering a second one - this way they can cool one while wearing the other. The wraps are becoming very popular with baseball and soccer trainers, and the wraps can be conveniently stored in a cooler for quick application on the field when needed.
Always allow the injured area to return to normal body temperature between hot and cold treatments by waiting 60-90 minutes before applying a different therapy.
| Dear MendMeShop, I can't believe their customer service...you can tell they are persons, not machines, because, for example, she noticed that the same Bev wrote two different emails, one about adaptor one about metal once again" in one email, and "This is Sylvia once again from the MendMeShop" in another. Not canned, unless at a very high level! And they don't give a generic answer but one specific to your question....I like them! I have never before been so completely satisfied (and very pleasantly surprised) by the responses of any company's customer service rep as I am with you (and Sylvia). You have made it possible for me to gain the information and clarification I need to be comfortable making a decision. You have answered me in a courteous and professional way, instilling in me a confidence that I find important. You seem to be knowledgeable. And you really aren't giving me a hard-sell: you are confident in the quality of your product, and that, too, counts heavily for me. Rating: Beverley Noia
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