Best Massage Techniques For Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic (long-term) disease. Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms can come and go, and each person with RA is affected differently. Some people have long periods of remission. Their rheumatoid arthritis is inactive, and they have few or no symptoms during this time. Other people might have near-constant rheumatoid arthritis symptoms for months […]

How often should you use a massage chair?

Are you someone who gets regular massage? Perhaps between 2-4 times per month? If so you likely have a good reason physically, whether related to an persistent injury, chronic muscle pain, joint or tendon soreness, or maybe your work involves physical exertion that leaves you sore and needing the therapeutic treatment of massage. Or perhaps […]

Massage Chairs and Weight Loss?

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Massage and Weight Loss: Too Good to be True? If something tastes good or feels good, the tendency is often to think, “This can’t be good for me.” Right? Happily, that is not the case with massage for weight loss. Indirect Benefits of Massage for Weight Loss The two most common approaches to weight loss […]

Massage Chairs Make You Feel Good

Massage: Is “Feels Good” Enough? For months, we’ve outlined ways in which massage and premium massage chairs are established heath aids for a broad range of aches, pains, conditions, syndromes, and illnesses. No surprise there. And most of us also enjoy massage and massage chairs purely as aesthetic experience. But is enjoyment a recommendation in […]

Massage Chairs Relieve Depression

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Can Massage Relieve Symptoms of Depression? Depression can be an expensive and devastating condition, in part because of the effect depressive illness can have on overall health. According to the Centers for Disease Control, “Depression can adversely affect the course and outcome of common chronic conditions, such as arthritis, asthma, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and […]

A Touch of Care: Massage for Menopausal Women

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Menopause brings about physiological, psychological, and social changes that can weigh heavily on a woman’s health—mind, body, and soul. Studies show that the vast majority of women going through this experience some kind of clinical symptom and in 40% of those cases, their symptoms are intense enough for the patient to seek medical assistance. These […]

PMS? Massage to The Rescue

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PMS is common medical complaint, a chronic problem estimated to affect up to 80% of women. No one definitive cause of PMS has been identified, but several factors are known to influence symptoms. These include diet, genetics, hormone fluctuation, and that common culprit, stress. Because PMS gives rise to both physical and psychological symptoms, stressful […]

Giving a Massage Chair as a Retirement Gift

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In our last blog, we spoke about finding a luxury massage chair for your retirement and how it could benefit you during your golden years. However, what if you’re not the one who is retiring? If you have a parent, grandparent, or friend who is retiring and you want to get them a very special […]

Massage for Better Emotional Health

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If you’ve received a professional massage even once, you know how much better you feel after just a few minutes on the table. But your physiological response goes deeper than simple relaxation. According to Tiffany Field, Ph.D., director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, FL, massage, […]

Massage During Pregnancy?

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Many think of massage as a luxury to be indulged in only on occasion. What determines a luxury depends on many factors, some cultural, some financial, and often these are very subjective. But one of the most beneficial times for massage may be during pregnancy. A study at the University of Miami School of Medicine […]

What About Contraindications for Massage with Hypertension?

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Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a serious condition affecting one in four American adults. Some information suggests that people with hypertension should not use massage as a treatment. Fortunately, research contradicts this finding. Any kind of massage flushes stagnant blood and floods a tightened area with new, fresh blood. This increase in circulation can increase […]

Dealing with Stress Through Massage

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Everyone experiences stress at some point in their lives, and everyone deals with it in different ways. There are positive and negative ways of dealing with stress, and some cope with it better than others. At The World’s Best Massage Chairs (WBMC), we want everyone who uses one of our chairs to feel relaxed and […]

Four Common Massage Styles: Deep Tissue, Swedish, Shiatsu, and Junetsu Massage

Massage Styles: Deep Tissue, Swedish, and Shiatsu Massage

In this article, I’ll take a few minutes discussing what characterizes four common types of massage styles and their effect on the body. Deep Tissue Massage Style: Let’s start with one of the most common massage styles: Deep Tissue Massage (DTM). As the name suggests, DTM refers to any massage which deeply penetrates muscle layers […]

The R & R Company

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The R & R Company When you think of what separates us from the rest of the massage chair companies out there, you can simply think of us as the “R & R Company.” You may get all kinds of ideas about what you typically hear when you think about “R & R”, but our […]

Stress As An Evolutionary Adaptation

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Imagine yourself hundreds of thousands of years ago, a newly evolved Homo sapiens sapiens, striking out on the African plain intent on scouting out sustenance for yourself and your kin.  Your muscular and lithe body moves with the wind as you track your prey off in the distance and you’re careful to not let your […]

Good Rest and Why It's Important To You

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Science has proven that “good rest” is not only how the body recovers from daily life, but also something that is incredibly vital to helping our immune systems function optimally. Without proper rest, we see people develop: illnesses, irritability, infections, headaches, poor sleeping habits and they become an overall slave to their stress. The question […]

Health Benefits of Massage Therapy

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Massage has been around for thousands of years. In fact, the word massage is derived from the Greek word meaning “to work with the hands as in kneading dough.” With the advancements of modern medicine, the medical community today relies far less on massage as healing therapy and instead use technology – drugs, surgery, etc. […]