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What are the advantages and disadvantages of massage chair?
Benefits of massage chair: mainly to improve fatigue, relieve stress and play a role in disease prevention.

Disadvantages of massage chair: mainly for people who are not suitable to use massage chair and use it improperly.

People who can't use massage chairs are:

Patients with heart disease, hypertension and osteoporosis. Because massage can speed up the blood circulation of human body, it is easy to lead to the attack of heart disease and hypertension; Osteoporosis is easy to lead to brittle bones due to calcium deficiency, massage? When the strength is high, it is particularly easy to cause fractures.

Patients with local skin injury, ulcer, hemorrhage, tuberculosis and tumor.

People who are hungry, full, drunk or tired.

Old people. Massage chair uses mechanical rolling force and extrusion force to massage. Its strength is not easy to control. When the intensity is small, it has little effect. Great strength can cause muscle pain and even physical injury. In the elderly, due to the reduction of intervertebral disc moisture and the narrowing of intervertebral space, the ligaments around the spine are in a relaxed state. Improper use of massager will lead to biomechanical changes of spine, facet joint disorder, lumbar disc herniation and so on, which will aggravate physical discomfort. Osteoporosis? The patient's bones become brittle, and the massage is strong, which is easy to cause fractures. Electric massage chair is not suitable. Electric massage chair can relax the body and relieve pain, but improper use will cause physical injury, so the elderly should be careful when using it. Therefore, the elderly should choose massagers with local muscles or acupoints, and the massage time should not exceed half an hour.

Pregnant women and children.

At the same time, massage chairs should not be overused, but will cause fatigue.