Massage is a practice with a long history of providing a wide range of health benefits, from pain relief to improved circulation to accelerated healing. However, when chairs were first developed, they were thought primarily to be designed for facilitating rest and relaxation. While they certainly deliver on that objective, they can do much more.

The Best Massage Chairs Deliver a True Massage

One of the reasons that massage chairs do more than help you relax is that the best chairs today are much improved over older models. In the early days, massage chair’s were very simple and had limited functionality. In many cases, they could only provide pressure in a few areas and with only the most basic of movement patterns.