If you play sport or work out a genuine vibration massager should be your new best friend. They are highly effective for warm ups, recovery, increasing performance, and should you need injury care or rehabilitation. As we discussed in a previous info pack the therapeutic vibrations penetrate deeply into your muscles and have a host of beneficial effects including relaxing the muscles, increasing blood flow and assisting healing.
In this info pack:
- Foam rollers and massage guns are not suitable
- Video introduction
- Resources
Foam rollers and massage guns are not suitable
Foam rollers and massage guns are heavily marketed for this purpose. However:
- Foam rollers give very poor results in clinical trials and are likely even less effective in real life without the strict supervision and instructions.
- Compared with genuine vibration massagers massage guns give less vibrations and they are not at the therapeutic frequency.