Hand Massager for Arthritis, Deep Tissue Massager for Carpal Tunnel Relief - Forearm Massager for Hand Therapy with Trigger Point Foam Roller - Finger Massager and Wrist Roller - Arm Massager by Roleo

I love this thing! Yes, it hurts a little at first, but it's a good hurt that results in much less hurt later.The pain is from inflammation, and the massage reduces the inflammation. I do it before bed, and my hands are much less stiff in the morning.I have tendinitis in my hands, mostly thumbs. I've been using a small massage ball and ice/heat to help them, but as soon as I started using the Roleo every day, I got the most improvement. I was concentrating just on my hands before, but the forearm massage has made tremendous relief. This does a great job on the wrist and heel of the hand too.If you read the instructions, it's all there: 1.It will hurt at first, but will improve, 2. Start out on the lightest pressure, 3.Run your entire hand and forearm slowly back and forth up to the elbow.I push my arm back and forth, turning my arm a little each pass to get every muscle, and it makes my hands feel better too. After 3-5 minutes, my arm and hand feels warm and relaxed. So far, I haven't put the suction cups on. I like to rotate it around my arm to get every angle.I still like to use the massage ball to really get into the muscles and tendons around my knuckles and fingers/thumbs, because it doesn't really do much for them specifically. But it's amazing how much it helps them.It doesn't pull my arm hair like some say, but I can see where a long sleeved shirt would help if it did. Some say it seems cheaply made, but it seems like good quality plastic. I've been using it for a few weeks, and got way more massages out of it for 50 bucks than if I went to a masseur! If it breaks, I'll come back here and update for that.

I've had pain in my hands and wrists to were it hurt just to pull my pants up or zipper my jacket. Even typing away at my computer was painful! My massage therapist friend said that my hand and wrist pains stem from my forearms and showed me this product. I have been using it for about 2-3 weeks now and omg do I feel SO much better. I can feel where the knots are in my forearms and this machine allows me to keep rolling over those specific spots to loosen up the knots. I love this product and would recommend it to others. Small downside is that it sometimes gets stuck on one side, but that's not a deal break for me because you can work around it with a little bit of fidgeting and because the pay off of what relief this machine has brought me.

I have just begun using this product as part of my regimen for repetitive strain injuries in my forearms and wrists. I work an office job, play guitar and drums, and lift weights regularly; all of which has caught up to my wrists (not to mention I believe my family has a genetic predisposition to these issues due to our forearms development). The fact that I can get a decent trigger point massage without using my other arm in the process is really, really nice. For my repetitive strain, I've used a lacrosse ball as well as something more blunt like the butt end of a sharpie or pen, or even the edge of a desk, to apply varying amounts of pressure to my wrist extensors. This generally results in increased tenderness of the muscles for a brief period, followed by a gradual relaxation that allows my wrist to function without pain or weakness (I have successfully used a similar process on my jaw muscles to mitigate TMJ pain in the jaw). This product assists in massaging the extensors as well as the flexors on the other side, which really helps to provide relief. It also helps to massage the tendons near the wrist, which helps with thumb pain and range of motion limitations. As far as the product itself goes, so far so good.However, the product arrived bare in only the product box, which was slightly damaged and left me wondering if there was any damage to the product or if there would be any missing items. Though it appears the unit is safe and I have received the additional contents (instructions, suction cups, & a cheap orange finger massager device), this method of shipment does not provide much confidence that the unit would arrive without damage.I will update this post as I continue to use this device as part of my routine to mitigate wrist pain to gauge its overall effectiveness over other methods, though at this point I would say- if you struggle with forearm tightness, thumb and/or wrist pain, I would definitely give this a try.

Pros:-Works well on people who have relatively thin arms-Not very big-LightweightCons:-Too weak to work well on average "male" sized/musculated arm-Roller often gets stuck to one side when moving up as arm passes through-Too small for anyone with larger musculatureI've had this Roleo massager for about a week now. I gave it a real effort and tried my arm in it every way I could think of but it's quality just isn't good enough to support the price. I'm an average sized male with an average sized musculature and am a massage therapist. The only way I can get enough pressure out this device for my arms is to press down hard into the bottom roller and to grab the upper roller with my other hand and pull it down onto the arm that I'm working. For $50 I don't think I should have to be doing the "work" myself that this device is supposed to do for me. There also isn't quite enough room for it to move freely and it gets caught on itself as it moves over the larger part of my forearm. It works on my thinly framed girlfriend enough for her to have to turn down the pressure some though so if you are a fairly thin person you could give it a try. I'm returning mine.