Benefits Of Massage
A good hands-on massage can play a crucial role in alleviating back pain. Similarly, a good massage chair is designed to provide some measure of pain relief and relaxation without the need for person-to-person interaction. In-home privacy, convenience and time efficiency, are the major reasons why many people are choosing with a massage chair as a potential means to ease back pain.
Comprehensive research has demonstrated three central reasons why massage is beneficial:
• Improves venous and lymphatic flow—manipulating muscles increases blood flow. Increasing blood flow facilitates the circulation and absorption of nutritional elements into the muscles and tissues. Increasing lymphatic circulation clears toxins out of these areas. Together, this revitalizes the massaged area.
• Decreases tension and improves flexibility—massaging helps loosen tight and strained muscles. Stretching and kneading problem areas allow muscles to relax as well.
• Increases endorphin levels—possibly the most beneficial aspect of massage. Endorphins are the 'feel good' chemicals that run through the body—increasing their levels induces positive results. Among other benefits, increasing endorphin levels has been correlated with quicker recovery, reduced pain, and reduced anxiety.
• These benefits of massage work both physically and psychologically to help reduce common symptoms of back pain. Through the study of the human body and analysis of feedback, many massage chair designs have been developed with the goal of achieving similar benefits.
• Currently, the most effective massage techniques that massage chairs are designed to simulate are that of Shiatsu massage.
• Shiatsu tends to use pressing, sweeping, tapping, rolling and rotating movements. The defining characteristic of Shiatsu is its focus on releasing tension in specific locations of the body.
• Of course, a mechanical substitute can never reproduce the exact feeling of human touch, but the chairs are starting to come close. As years have gone by, designers have more closely approximated the necessary factors in a massage chair to provide its user with some measure of relief from back pain and neck pain.
