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Friday, June 5, 2009

Massage Chairs Assist Your Spinal Therapy

Posted by patrick

By James Knolan

The key to maintaining an active lifestyle is to maintain the health of your spinal column. You may know from first hand experience if you suffered an injury to your back. The back enables our mobility and even slight aggravations can cause us considerable discomfort. Massage chairs have been used in chiropractor offices for many years to assist in their spinal recovery and therapy.

Hopefully, any problem you have had has not resulted in you having to visit a chiropractor. A chiropractors role is to align everything up to its prior functioning capabilities and once he or she has done so the rest of the body will be back in good order. Chiropractors use different techniques to help restore your spine to good health.

Your back consists of many bones, muscles and soft tissues. These are held together in a complex array which gives us the tremendous flexibility and mobility we enjoy. The chiropractor must figure out what is the cause of our issue and then provide a range of therapies to get all the bones, muscles and soft tissues to regain their prior vitality.

Chiropractors employ a variety of techniques to induce the spine to return to its original health. Manipulation is direct action by the chiropractor. Hands are used to apply specific pressure and angles to adjust specific areas of the back. Other treatments employed are electrical stimulation, stretching, massage and physical therapy. Massage chairs can provide some of these treatments and are used by some of the top chiropractors.

You can now find a variety of effective treatments for spinal therapy in today's massage chairs. Massage chairs can apply specific treatments consistently and can be precisely timed and controlled. A slow kneading massage can be applied to the lumbar area for 5 minutes. Massage chairs also come equipped with heat therapy and have stretching capabilities.

Massage therapies included in many of the top massage chair models include shiatsu, kneading, chopping, deep tissue, Swedish, finger press and more. These can be applied to a specific area or point. The flexibility and the precision of the targeting give good control over the therapy being applied.

Massage chairs help to provide consistent and dependable massage therapy. They can be used to provide and overall whole body massage or can be used to target specific muscles or muscle groups. They help provide periodic therapy which can reduce lactic acids in the body. Additionally, they help to reduce stiffness, soreness and relieve aches and pains.

A complementary therapy integrated into some of the top massage chairs are heaters. Heat is used to decrease swollen muscles and improve blood circulation. The heating elements can be activated for specific areas to target the application of the heat to particular muscles.

You can also find systems that can do stretching. These massage chairs can actually stretch out the legs, shoulders and arms. With the use of the air compression system, parts of the body can be held and then the chair will move to provide the force to stretch out muscles. This helps to increase joint mobility.

As with any treatment that you seek, you should consult with your doctor to discuss what options are right for you. Just as you are unique, so is your situation, so seek professional advice for any injuries or conditions you may have.

A chiropractors role is to align everything up to its prior functioning capabilities and once he or she has done so the rest of the body will be back in good order. By means of manipulation, adjustments, and realignment, a chiropractors job is to put everything back into place. With his or her hands a chiropractor uses force to joint and thereby moving the defective part beyond its normal capabilities. Many chiropractors have found massage chairs to be very helpful with spinal therapy and recovery.

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