Built for the person you didn't want to worry about
We built Solva because the right solution didn't exist. Three therapies. One device. The 15-minute ritual that changes what morning feels like.
I built this because I watched her struggle
She'd been waking up at 3am for two years — shaking her hand back to life in the dark. Her doctor told her to wear a brace. The brace helped with the numbness, but wrecked her sleep. Then came the cortisone shot: six glorious months, then back to square one.
I watched my mother assemble a solution out of a heating pad on the counter, compression gloves on her hands, and a massage wand in her lap. Three separate things, every night, just to feel normal.
"Why doesn't something exist that delivers all three at once?"
That question drove two years of research into the clinical literature on hand therapy — including a 2011 PubMed study showing that four weeks of structured hand massage reduced pain, increased grip strength, and improved sleep. The evidence was there. The device wasn't.
What frustrated me most wasn't the pain itself. It was how many separate products she was juggling to get partial relief. She was assembling the right solution with the wrong tools.
Solva is the answer to that question. Heat, compression, and massage — the three therapies with the most clinical evidence for hand pain — in one device she could use in her living room while watching the evening news.
That was three years and 60,000 customers ago. My mother still uses hers every morning.
The treatment works. The access doesn't.
PT works — for people who can afford to keep going
The patients who got the best outcomes weren't the ones on the most medication. They were the ones coming in three times a week for heat, compression, and manual therapy. The treatment worked. The access didn't.
Existing solutions only do one thing at a time
A brace. A heating pad. A vibrating glove. Each doing one thing. None of them doing what a 15-minute PT session does: heat first, then compression, then massage — in sequence, the way clinical research shows it works.
You deserve clinic-grade relief at home
We engineered the protocol hand therapists have used for decades into a device you can hold in your lap. The same three-phase sequence. The same clinical outcome. Without the appointment, the waiting room, or the copay.
Give people back the small dignities hand pain takes away
The jar lid. The shirt button. The grandchild you love — but hesitate before picking up. Hand pain doesn't arrive all at once. It quietly takes things, one small moment at a time.
We exist for the person who's tried the brace, the ibuprofen, the cortisone shot. The person whose doctor said "rest and ice it" — three years ago. The person who has assembled a tray of partial solutions and still wakes up at 3am.
Our mission is simple: bring the therapy that exists in PT clinics into the home of every person who needs it, at a price that makes sense, with a guarantee that removes all the risk.
The 3-Phase Therapy Sequence
The sequence is the mechanism. Doing them out of order — or all at once — produces less relief. This is why a heat pad, a glove, and a massager used separately don't replicate a therapy session.
Warmth First
Heat vasodilates the blood vessels — opening the joint, increasing circulation, and making the tissue receptive to what comes next. Without this, compression and massage work against tighter, stiffer tissue.
Compression Second
Rhythmic pneumatic compression moves stagnant fluid out of swollen tissue — reducing the inflammation that causes most of the pain and stiffness. This is the lymphatic pump that braces can't provide.
Massage to Close
Targeted vibration releases the accumulated muscle tension that perpetuates the compression cycle. The result isn't temporary numbing — it's a genuine change in the state of the tissue.
The evidence was already there. We built the device.
We didn't invent hand therapy. Physical therapists have used heat, compression, and massage in sequence for decades. What we built is the delivery mechanism that brings that protocol home — validated by the same clinical literature that guides occupational therapists worldwide.
Every feature in the device maps directly to a clinically studied modality. Nothing is decorative. Nothing is there because it sounds good. It's there because the research says it works.
Four weeks of structured hand massage reduced pain scores, increased grip strength, improved sleep quality, and elevated mood in patients with hand arthritis — compared to a control group.
Heat therapy is endorsed for arthritis pain relief — warm the joint before movement to reduce morning stiffness and prepare tissue for activity. Sessions of 15–20 minutes are recommended.
Paraffin wax heat combined with hand exercises produces significant improvement in pain and range of motion for patients with carpal tunnel and osteoarthritis.
They've tried everything else too
We don't ask for polished testimonials. We share what people actually write — typos and all.
"I wore a wrist brace to bed for three years. I felt like giving up on finding anything that worked. After two weeks with this, I slept through the night for the first time I can remember. I cried."
"I'm a hairstylist. My hands are everything. Two cortisone shots and PT that I couldn't afford to keep going to. This is the first thing that's actually kept up with my work week."
"I bought this for my mother after watching her struggle to button her coat. She uses it every morning now. She told me it's the best gift I've ever given her. That's all I needed to hear."
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