Introduction:
Massage chairs are generally of two types.
a) Traditional Massage Chairs:
These chairs are designed to provide massage to persons who need them and are designed just like massage tables. They may be portable or stationary. However, these type of chairs are suggested by therapists because the clients need not disrobe themselves for massages and it has the facility of portability.
b) Robotic Massage Chairs:
Robotic massage chairs have inbuilt motors, gears and controllers to provide massage to the people using them and can be customized according to the location and intensity of massage required. The cost of these chairs varies greatly, from cheap ‘vibrate only’ types to the costlier ones.
1. Ht-5040 Wholebody Massage Chair:
Human Touch-5040 Wholebody Massage Chair is a robotic massage chair, that is affordable and perfectly suits your requirement. It guarantees you in shedding off your stress and muscle pain with just a button press. It also does provide a therapeutic massage and removes muscle soreness with its additional designed features. It assures to provide a high performance with its modern design and can be placed in any home or office environment. It has a swivel base which rotates for about 60 degrees and a PU of different colors with modern stitching and square tailoring. This chair has a headrest designed to provide comfortable feel to the base of your neck and shoulders. It also provides complete body therapy through foot and calf massage and a spine decompression through full body stretch. This chair, thus, provides ‘head-to- toe’ massage at an affordable cost.
2. Inada 3a Pre-Programmed Massage Chair:
Inada is famous and well reputed in massage chair production and hence, provides relaxation to a greater extent. This manufacturer is from Japan and has introduced 3A pre-programmed Massage Chair. The massage provided by this chair is believed to be the doctor’s choice of body massage for soothing muscles. This chair uses a unique technology for massage by using infra-red rays for scanning the body, rollers, air-cell compression systems, provides posture correction therapy and shiatsu-style massage. Since it is pre-programmed, the user need not adjust the chair to suit his or her needs. Rather, the chair itself facilitates a person with the right kind of massage out of 106 types of body massages stored in its memory. The manufacturer believes that this is the first chair to incorporate air cells of the shoulders, which are designed to encourage the body into a healthy shoulders and back posture. This chair is also designed to meet the needs of elders and adolescents, thereby, availing the vibration or kneading to vary between 10 and 32 strokes per minute, where the tapping is made to vary between 180 and 500 taps per minute. It is also said that if a person uses this massage everyday, he or she would live for an extra of 24 years.
3. Jovial Dvd Luxury Massage Chair with Hi-Fi Earphones:
Jovial Luxury Massage chair manufacturer assures that nothing can relax you more than this product after a whole day of tiresome work. The major attraction of this chair is that it comes with a multimedia DVD player, along with, loudspeaker and earphones. It supports various massage techniques combined with different music styles and facilitates music massage transfer. It adopts S curve design to comfort your muscles and uses the advanced electronic scanning of your body. Each chair has three choices: hand-like massage, kneading scratch and tapping. The chair has three airbags in seat cushion, eight airbags in calf support and four modes for air massage with customizable intensities. Autopower seat position can be changed between 100 and 160 degrees, apart from facilitating backrest and leg rest.
4. King Kong Eclipse D4000 Massage Chair with Mp3 Music:
King Kong Eclipse provides you with a massage chair that has an advanced acupuncture point. It also has an MP3 player, that has a 1GB storage for your favorite music and also facilitates USB transfers with deluxe headsets. The most notable feature of this chair is that the acupuncture measures the length of your back and width of our shoulders and accordingly, chooses the massage to comfort your body. Its cost is $5,999.
5. Tristar Massage Chair:
Tristar massage chair ensures to take you out to another world by sucking out all your tiredness, along with your worries owing to its beautifully designed blue structure. It consists of various massaging techniques, that can be adjusted according to your wish. This also has an in-built CD player and audio system to allow you to listen to your favorite song, with a new foot massaging system that soothes your leg muscles after a long walk. It costs about $7740.
6. Sanyo Zero Gravity Massage Chair:
Sanyo Zero Gravity massage chair assures to provide you with the best possible massage by letting you relax yourself without any gravity with just a button press. It is an excellent innovation made with synthetic leather and assures to provide you with all the available massage techniques in zero gravity position. It uses photo sensory to measure the areas of stiffness and delivers massage to those areas of tension. It provides five automatic massages and a combination of 83 manual massages. This chair is manufactured in Japan and provides very good customer service. It offers a 24/7 service and extended service warranty. It costs $4000 to $5000 which equals 2,00,000 on an average.
7. Human Touch Ht-1650 Acutouch Massage Chair:
Human Touch, which is a leading manufacturer of massage chairs has come up with yet another one, known as HT-1650 robotic massage chair, which is a flagship massage chair. It is built by using patented system which is used by therapists. It provides you with all massages like kneading, tapping, rolling and compression. You can customize the type of massage you want, but, it also provides you with eight massages, that begin with a button press and last for 15 minutes. Some of these provide full body sore muscle relief, neck and shoulder relief, stretch after work, night time soothing and so on.
