Guest guest Posted February 13, 1999 Report Share Posted February 13, 1999 MOST of you guys are gonna love this report. Personally, I think you're gonna owe me, but I can't figure out how to make you pay. LOL If June, or others who have purchased a Thumper are reading this, you might want to hit your DELETE button now. This is NOT going to make you feel good at all. Sorry. I'll start from the beginning, for the new folks. During the last year, we've discussed the use of massagers and vibrators. We learned that a vibrating pad or foot massager, used on the floor with your feet on it, SOMETIMES worked well to stop or prevent an RLS attack. The only trick was to make it through the first 20-30 seconds. Inevitably, the first response is a major RLS wave, but then it goes away and your legs just vibrate and feel good. From there, we moved to the " big guns. " Someone started talking about something called " Mini pro Thumper " . This is a handheld massager that literally pounds your muscles. Instead of a back and forth vibration, it has two knobs that pound up and down and hammer your muscles. It sounded like a god send, but the prices ranged from $210-$260. These are available from tone and from several online companies. The Sharper Image has a similar one that I think is around $150. Several of us have Thumpers and are $210+ poorer, but we love them. Only one person that I know of, had to return it, because it pounded too hard and it hurt too much. Moving right along. There's a company called Homemedics, which is making a TON of home health products these days (looking up their stock price and considering some, while I type). They've made a Thumper look-alike which they sell for about $60. Walgreen's stores are carrying them in Arizona. On the box it says " TherapistSelect: Professional Percussion Massager " . Lousy name, eh? I'm going to call it the " chumper " . Get it? It's a cheap Thumper...chumper. ANYHOW...here's where you will all feel the need to send me money for having saved you so much. LOL I got curious and went to Walgreens and purchased a Chumper. I'm returning it tomorrow, since I already have my Thumper, and only wanted to do a comparison test. I know you guys want tests to be scientific, so here it goes. HYPOTHESIS(Statement of what I think my results will show): The Mini-Pro Thumper was well worth my money, over the Chumper. CONTROL GROUP (The group that was NOT tested, but just observed.): My LEFT leg and two arms were my control group. They just watched while I thumped the hell out of my right leg. TEST: I ran the Thumper up and down my right thigh. Then I ran the Chumper up and down it. Repeated 5 times each at various speeds. Said, " oooooh, awwwww, oooooh awwwwww " several times with each. OBSERVATION OF TOOLS: I noticed several differences between the two massagers. Price.....Thumper is $210...........Chumper is $60 Weight....Thumper is 2lbs 14oz......Chumper is 2lbs 8oz Size......Same height and length, but the two knobs on the Chumper are about 1/2 inch closer together. (I like this better.) Speed adjustments....Thumper has 4 clicks, off, slow, med, fast.....Chumper has a gradual sliding speed adjustment and a separate on/off switch. I just used fast speed on both, so the clicks vs gradual doesn't matter. I prefer to have the on/off switch built into the slide, as with the Thumper. Knobs....Thumper comes with only two NONchangeable knobs......The Chumper comes with two knobs already on it and then two more sets of interchangeable knobs. One set is softer and one of the sets is harder than the one on the Thumper. I was comparing the hardest Chumper knobs against the knobs that are on the Thumper. RESULTS: My eyeballs rattled equally with both machines. Seriously, they both seemed to feel exactly the same. The closer knobs on the Chumper were preferrable. The pounding felt just as strong when using the hard knobs on the Chumper and comparing it to the Thumper, both at fastest speed. CONCLUSION: I'm a real poor schmuck for having paid so much money for my Thumper when I coulda had a Chumper. Maybe if I send this email to Homemedics, they'll feel sorry and send me a gift certificate for other products?????? You guys take it from there. If you've been thinking about a Thumper but didn't want to spend the bucks....here's your chance. Go buy a Chumper and send me the $150 you save. Happy pounding... Jill, 46 Payson, AZ http://www.netzone.com/~gunzel/rls.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 1999 Report Share Posted February 13, 1999 jill and everyone else in this group..............i gave out this information months ago when my girlfriend bought the therapist select 'thumper' for me on QVC for about $40 ------------ so jill i don't owe you anything but maybe you owe me something for not bothering to read my messages. JACK snow showers in western nys At 02:29 PM 2/13/99 -0700, you wrote: > > >MOST of you guys are gonna love this report. Personally, I think you're >gonna owe me, but I can't figure out how to make you pay. LOL If June, or >others who have purchased a Thumper are reading this, you might want to hit >your DELETE button now. This is NOT going to make you feel good at all. >Sorry. > >I'll start from the beginning, for the new folks. During the last year, >we've discussed the use of massagers and vibrators. We learned that a >vibrating pad or foot massager, used on the floor with your feet on it, >SOMETIMES worked well to stop or prevent an RLS attack. The only trick was >to make it through the first 20-30 seconds. Inevitably, the first response >is a major RLS wave, but then it goes away and your legs just vibrate and >feel good. > >>From there, we moved to the " big guns. " Someone started talking about >something called " Mini pro Thumper " . This is a handheld massager that >literally pounds your muscles. Instead of a back and forth vibration, it >has two knobs that pound up and down and hammer your muscles. It sounded >like a god send, but the prices ranged from $210-$260. These are available >from tone and from several online companies. The Sharper Image has a >similar one that I think is around $150. Several of us have Thumpers and >are $210+ poorer, but we love them. Only one person that I know of, had to >return it, because it pounded too hard and it hurt too much. > >Moving right along. There's a company called Homemedics, which is making a >TON of home health products these days (looking up their stock price and >considering some, while I type). They've made a Thumper look-alike which >they sell for about $60. Walgreen's stores are carrying them in Arizona. >On the box it says " TherapistSelect: Professional Percussion Massager " . >Lousy name, eh? I'm going to call it the " chumper " . Get it? It's a cheap >Thumper...chumper. > >ANYHOW...here's where you will all feel the need to send me money for >having saved you so much. LOL I got curious and went to Walgreens and >purchased a Chumper. I'm returning it tomorrow, since I already have my >Thumper, and only wanted to do a comparison test. I know you guys want >tests to be scientific, so here it goes. > >HYPOTHESIS(Statement of what I think my results will show): The Mini-Pro >Thumper was well worth my money, over the Chumper. > >CONTROL GROUP (The group that was NOT tested, but just observed.): My LEFT >leg and two arms were my control group. They just watched while I thumped >the hell out of my right leg. > >TEST: I ran the Thumper up and down my right thigh. Then I ran the >Chumper up and down it. Repeated 5 times each at various speeds. >Said, " oooooh, awwwww, oooooh awwwwww " several times with each. > >OBSERVATION OF TOOLS: I noticed several differences between the two >massagers. >Price.....Thumper is $210...........Chumper is $60 >Weight....Thumper is 2lbs 14oz......Chumper is 2lbs 8oz >Size......Same height and length, but the two knobs on the Chumper are >about 1/2 inch closer together. (I like this better.) >Speed adjustments....Thumper has 4 clicks, off, slow, med, fast.....Chumper >has a gradual sliding speed adjustment and a separate on/off switch. I >just used fast speed on both, so the clicks vs gradual doesn't matter. I >prefer to have the on/off switch built into the slide, as with the Thumper. >Knobs....Thumper comes with only two NONchangeable knobs......The Chumper >comes with two knobs already on it and then two more sets of >interchangeable knobs. One set is softer and one of the sets is harder >than the one on the Thumper. I was comparing the hardest Chumper knobs >against the knobs that are on the Thumper. > >RESULTS: My eyeballs rattled equally with both machines. Seriously, >they both seemed to feel exactly the same. The closer knobs on the Chumper >were preferrable. The pounding felt just as strong when using the hard >knobs on the Chumper and comparing it to the Thumper, both at fastest speed. > >CONCLUSION: I'm a real poor schmuck for having paid so much money for my >Thumper when I coulda had a Chumper. Maybe if I send this email to >Homemedics, they'll feel sorry and send me a gift certificate for other >products?????? > >You guys take it from there. If you've been thinking about a Thumper but >didn't want to spend the bucks....here's your chance. Go buy a Chumper and >send me the $150 you save. >Happy pounding... > >Jill, 46 >Payson, AZ >http://www.netzone.com/~gunzel/rls.html > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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