OUR STORY
How and why Neck Sofa® was created!
Like many products that have seen great success in the marketplace, the Neck Sofa® was born to fill a critical need: A more structured, therapeutic, and comfortable neck support pillow. Sometime ago, the co-inventor of the Neck Sofa® "AJ" suffered whiplash from a head-on car accident. Although, the doctors felt surgery was an option, they couldn’t guarantee that it would help. In fact, they suggested that it may even get worse. Opting not to have surgery, AJ attempted to alleviate her severe pain through different types of therapy. She spent years and a small fortune on everything from acupuncture to massage, from spinal injections to specialized exercise programs, but nothing worked. AJ regularly took pain medications to alleviate the pain.
Whiplash suffers know just how debilitating the pain can be. The symptoms of whiplash go well beyond just the neck area. Among other symptoms, AJ, like many suffers, had bad ringing in her ears, which caused nausea, dizziness, and constant exhaustion. From the moment of the accident, her symptoms were debilitating, preventing her from performing her normal daily activities. Life as she knew it, ended.
Having tried every possible treatment without relief, AJ decided to stop them all. She began looking for a neck support pillow, hoping it would ease her pain. She bought many different types of pillows: some were inflatable, had beads, were constructed from hard memory foam, etc. Every time she saw a different pillow, she tried it. Although, each were different, they all had the same basic U-shaped design and were too low for proper support of the head and neck. Many were uncomfortable! It came as a shock that there was no real update made to the basic neck pillow design.
It was at this point that it became clear, if AJ wanted a pillow to help with her pain, she and her husband Gabe would have to design it. With his passion and commitment to work on a new concept neck device, he convinced her that he could design and manufacture a supportive neck pillow. This new neck device would not only help her, but help millions of people in the United States who suffer with the same symptoms.
The first step was to isolate the deficiencies of current pillows. That included, not enough support, too low for the head and neck, poor general quality, the surface material wasn’t soft enough, and generally uncomfortable.
Both AJ and Gabe knew they would have a big seller if they could design a pillow that not only felt good to the head and neck, but could provide correct structural support as well. The key was to design an inner support structure to accomplish the two purposes. Once complete, they had to incorporate soft memory foam which was essential for great comfort and would be flexible enough to fit most neck sizes.
Using AJ as a test subject, it took over two (2) years of research and development, and invested their life savings, but in the end, the Neck Sofa® was born. It has 7 US Granted Patents and many International Patents. Neck Sofa® is the only neck pillow on the market that has the combination of an inner supportive structure and soft, light memory foam. Unlike other pillows, the Neck Sofa® can be use in 12 different positions, giving users some degree of pain relief and support to the head and neck.
The Neck Sofa® helped alleviate AJ’s pain and put her on the road to recovery. Today, fully healed, she works full-time to spread the benefits of the Neck Sofa® and help pain suffers nationwide.