Best Infrared PEMF Mats

With so many Infrared PEMF Mats on the market today, choosing the right one can feel overwhelming. As more brands enter the space, many products come with incomplete or misleading specifications—especially when it comes to the quality and effectiveness of their PEMF therapy.

Healthy Wave pioneered the original 5-Therapy Infrared PEMF Mat and continues to lead the industry through science-backed innovation and proven results.

Our team has rigorously tested the top competitors and put together a fair, in-depth comparison to show how Healthy Wave stacks up. The verdict? Healthy Wave remains the #1 choice—offering more features, better value, advanced options, and unmatched return policies and warranties.

Low EMF Heating

While PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) is technically a type of EMF, it's pulsed and therapeutic. However, it’s critical that the heating elements themselves emit low or no harmful EMFs, as unwanted EMFs can interfere with the effectiveness of PEMF therapy.

At Healthy Wave, we've conducted and shared video testing that demonstrates our mats emit very low EMF during heating. While many brands advertise “low EMF heating,” our tests reveal otherwise. Popular names like Kala and several generic brands often showed significantly higher EMF levels than advertised.

Heat Timer

Proper heat timers are essential for convenience. Since mats take time to preheat, a flexible timer allows you to warm up the mat ahead of use or keep it ready on standby.

Healthy Wave Mats include a 1 to 12-hour timer, giving you full control. In contrast, some brands like Bon Charge only offer 60-minute timers, which limits functionality and reduces convenience.

PEMF Programs

PEMF therapy is most effective when offering a variety of frequencies, particularly those between 1–30Hz, which align with natural brainwave patterns and support brain entrainment.

Healthy Wave’s latest mats provide 32 unique frequencies, including 0.25 Hz and 0.5 Hz, exceeding the typical 1–30Hz range offered by others. Our frequency outputs are thoroughly tested for accuracy, unlike many mats that offer only a handful (1–9) of vague or unreliable settings.

1-30Hz PEMF Frequencies

You’d expect a 10Hz setting to deliver 10 pulses per second—but that’s often not the case.

Healthy Wave Mats deliver accurate, clearly documented PEMF frequencies, verified through detailed technical testing. In contrast, other mats often lack transparency, and some even emit continuous EMFs instead of pulsed PEMF. Many competitor claims are misleading or inaccurate, with pulse counts not matching the stated frequencies. For specifics, visit our PEMF Technology page and comparison charts.

PEMF Intensity

Intensity matters. PEMF’s magnetic field weakens with distance, so sufficient starting intensity is crucial to ensure therapeutic coverage, especially above the mat’s surface.

Healthy Wave Mats deliver strong intensities that reach up to 12 inches above the mat, ensuring deep, effective coverage. In contrast: Some brands, like Kala, advertise inflated intensities. Others, such as Higher Dose, produce very low intensities—often below 5 gauss—which drops to nearly 0 gauss just a few inches above the mat.

Check our intensity distribution charts on our Technology Page to see the difference.

PEMF Coils

A full-sized mat requires at least 6 PEMF coils for complete body coverage. Many competitors fall short. For instance, Higher Dose mats include only 4 coils, leaving areas of the mat with little to no PEMF output.

The combination of coil number and intensity determines the overall therapeutic field. Healthy Wave Mats are engineered to envelop your body in a consistent PEMF field for maximum benefit.

Square Wave & Multiple Pulse Types

All Healthy Wave Mats feature our proprietary Healthy Wave Signal, which blends square and sine wave elements—a sine wave inside a square wave envelope—for enhanced biological response.

Our Multi-Wave Series takes it further by offering adjustable pulse widths and six unique waveforms, including pure square wave. In contrast, all competing mats support only a single waveform, significantly limiting customization.

Grounding

PEMF and grounding are often confused—but they’re not the same. Grounding aligns your body’s voltage closer to that of the Earth, which can help reduce electrical stress.

Healthy Wave Mats are the only mats we've tested that offer true grounding, as demonstrated through body voltage testing. Other infrared PEMF mats increase your body’s electrical imbalance, due to lack of proper grounding technology.

Reduces Electro Smog

Healthy Wave’s grounding feature also helps reduce electro smog—the invisible electrical pollution caused by nearby electronics. We’ve measured this effect using voltmeters: when near electronic devices, the body voltage rises. But when using a properly grounded Healthy Wave Mat, that voltage drops, demonstrating a reduction in electro smog exposure.

Other mats, being electronic devices themselves, often increase the electro smog around your body. Healthy Wave’s unique design is engineered to do the opposite.

Red Light Therapy

Red light therapy is a powerful standalone treatment—and it works even better in combination with PEMF. It stimulates ATP (cellular energy) production, boosting cell function and enhancing the overall effectiveness of PEMF therapy.