The Original Neck Hammock Neck Stretcher - Cervical Traction Device for Neck Decompression - Portable Device for Neck Tension Relief

Provides excellent relief in 10 minutes. I need traction and this works great. LOVE it and the pain relief it provides. thanks for an awesome product. LOVE IT

I am a Massage Practitioner and often recommend this product! This is ny go to self care tool. I sometimes get a pinched nerve in my neck and it provides quick relief. It also was great when I had verigo.

Very helpful when these types of headaches bother you. I've had them constantly for several months. I try to do this at least once a day for 10 minutes and you get about 80% relief.

The product arrived in less than 24 hours! I've been using a home made neck traction device suggested by my physical therapist (a sling made from a towel and a Thera-band) for a couple of years and with some padding it has been helpful. I was so hoping that this one, designed by a PT would function even better but I'm having trouble getting it to work. Some problems so far: the foam padding presses really hard on my cheeks, to the point of pain. Also, where I could get what I felt was "just the right stretch" with my home-made sling, I'm still struggling finding the "sweet spot" with this one. There's the pressure on my cheeks and not finding the "ahhhh" position no matter the height or angle of this device. If I can get some help with my concerns, I'm prepared to like/love it and will send another review. If not, I might have to return it.

6 years later (yes 6) and this is still the best $50 I ever spent. Use this all the time. Take it with me to travel. It has done wonders for my base of skull, neck and (even a little for my jaw) pain. 100% recommend give this a try. Great quality- has held up perfectly. If I lost it I would repurchase immediately. It's that good.

The very FIRST time I used this, 20 seconds into using it per the instructions, the strap broke, my head smacked the ground, the plastic clip that spaces the two straps apart struck the bridge of my nose, and the straps struck my eyelids all with such force that it dazed me for few seconds. Just from where the straps struck me I continued to ache for the rest of the day. Just before this happened I was thinking, "wow I really hope this thing is well made or its going to snap and hit me in the eyes." Luckily I had JUST closed my eyes while attemping to 'relax' into it, and I am extremely fortunate to have thick carpeted floors or I would have been concussed worse than I was. I have suffered from several concussions and whiplash events in my life and I am extremely vulnerable to them now (hence why I bought this product, looking for head and neck pain relief to begin with!!) I am also extremely lucky it didnt break my nose or take out an eye (my worst fear in life). I don't know how I missed so many 1-star reviews all saying the exact same attachment point failed and this happened to them! This thing is a lawsuit waiting to happen. It's criminally negligent for them to not over-engineer the potential fail points for something with such a high risk assigned to it in the first place, but then with so many reviews all saying this exact same thing, they know about this issue and they continue to still sell it as such, knowing people are being severely hurt by it!

If you return this item or do not like it, honestly it’s all because you don’t know what you’re doing with it! This is the best purchase ever and I’ve actually got two of them! The biggest trick is to figure out how the heck to tie it to something! I will give you the best tip ever if you don’t have a giant wrought iron bed like I do then here’s a good tip. I actually strap mine to one of my exercise bikes and lay on the floor on my yoga mat and just keep pulling my body backwards.! it doesn’t really work as well on door knobs because it just seems too high I think and I don’t really have a door knob besides my front door that would hang onto it. The padding is awesome as long as you have figured out where it needs to go on your head and then you tighten the strap in the middle to help hang onto your head while you’re pulling. I have a different brand that hangs over the door, but hurts my face so badly just like all of them and this is the only one that will not hurt your face! I’m putting an example for all of you people that don’t have good reviews or have actually returned this. The photo that I’m attaching is probably not the best equipment because if I put it up higher, the whole thing will come and smash down on my face so it better be something that’s not going to tip over on your face! I only weigh 115 so the placement of this is really not going to pull down this equipment. I have pets so I don’t like cat hair on anything so I put it back in it’s little bag after I’m done each time.. . Just remember when you get it on, just keep slowly scooting your body the other direction and I can feel it all the way down my spine this way. If I had a person to be able to pull it, it would be nice as well, but this works perfectly.!!!! I can also have it in a convenient place and I will be taking it to the Physical Therapy I have to go to because another Physical Therapy is the one that suggested this.!!!!! Hope this all helps everyone and I was utterly shocked when I saw returns because I’ve had my other one for over a year and it still works great! Honestly, the manufacturing should give some more examples so this is not a returned item because I don’t know why the heck you would ever return this thing!!!!!

The only one that is the right height for my door knob and the most comfortable.

Whilst the theory behind the Neck Hammock is sound, it is let down in its practical application by the lack of a metal cradle or stand from which the hammock can be attached and hung. It is acknowledged that the hammock can be hung from a door handle or railing however a practical and suitable location which is without impediments is sometimes difficult to find to effectively hang the hammock from. The availability of a support in the form of a cradle or stand would overcome this problem and make the product far more user friendly and ensure the device could be used from any location. Interestingly, a cheaper knock off or copy of the neck hammock has such a supporting cradle and it is easy to see that it is far more user friendly and practical than the neck hammock which does not have a similar support or cradle available.

Works well. The stretch bands starts giving way after a month of usage. Worried that it may snap eventually hence had stopped using it.

The pads in the hammock create pressure that is not comfortable if used according to the manufacturers direction

not effective