As a massage tool with outstanding muscle relaxation effect, the fascia gun has become very popular in recent years, and many people have started the fascia gun with the purpose of improving their physical condition, but then there are muscle damage problems such as bruising and muscle swelling. As a professional sports blogger, today I will answer this question through this article, aiming to comprehensively popularize the knowledge of fascia guns for you, and tell you how to choose fascia guns. (The picture below is the fascia gun I used)
1. Is the fascia gun harmful?
Is the fascia gun harmful? The correct use of high-quality fascia guns will not harm your health, but if you are careless when buying a fascia gun, choose a product with a low degree of professionalism, or use the fascia gun in the wrong way, it is easy to be harmful. The picture below is what a professional doctor thinks about the dangers of fascia guns.
The hazards of fascia guns are manifested in the following ways:
Hazard 1: Cause bruising and muscle soreness
If you use such a fascia gun, it is easy to damage the skin, resulting in muscle soreness, muscle swelling, bruising and other adverse reactions.
Hazard 2, causing damage to bones and joints
There is a fascia gun equipped with a metal massage head on the market, which is very lethal, and it is easy to hurt bones and even cause bone cracks.
Hazard 3, causing chronic injury
If you use this kind of unprofessional fascia gun to massage the body for a long time, it may cause chronic injury, which is more insidious, and the user will not have a strong abnormal feeling at first, but after using it for a period of time, there may be severe pain like muscle tearing.
2. Analyze the four major reasons for the harm caused by fascia guns
Is the fascia gun harmful?the harm of the fascia gun is real, in order to better avoid the harm, we need to understand why the fascia gun will hurt the body, the following figure is the fascia gun damage muscle causes data statistics chart, the table clearly shows the various reasons why the fascia gun damages the muscles, after my summary can find that the fascia gun hurts the body The main reasons are as follows:
Reason 1: When choosing a fascia gun, you don't take into account your own muscle state
Under the combined influence of climate, working style, age, food culture, geography and other factors, everyone has unique muscle characteristics, if you blindly follow the trend to start the so-called Internet celebrity recommendation and celebrity endorsement products in such a situation, completely ignoring your own muscle characteristics, it is easy to buy a fascia gun that is not suitable for you, not only can not achieve the ideal massage effect, but also easily bring muscle damage problems.
Reason 2: Buy Internet celebrity products
Many friends only buy the fascia gun after watching the Internet celebrity bringing goods and celebrity endorsements, but I want to remind you that such Internet celebrity brands are often keen on hype marketing, but they will not spend time to delve into the professional technology of the fascia gun, nor have they repeatedly optimized and tuned the core parameters of the fascia gun such as hitting strength, hitting stability, and motor, and the muscle damage rate of the product is generally very high!
Reason 3: Excessive superstition of European and American brands
Many friends blindly admire European and American brands, thinking that European and American brands of fascia guns are better, this view is wrong, the development of domestic professional brands is not inferior to European and American brands, with higher cost performance, but also more suitable for the muscle state of Chinese people, and European and American brands of fascia guns were originally designed according to the body type of Europeans and Americans, the parameters of the product are too violent, if you blindly follow the European and American brands, it is easy to damage muscles.
Reason 4: Buy a fascia gun that is too cheap
Many people like to buy low-cost fascia guns, thinking that they have high cost performance, but in fact, this kind of fascia guns are generally perfunctory in the selection of materials, bearings, batteries, brush motors and other component materials are only selected the cheapest and inferior quality, such products in the hitting performance, hitting stability, battery life and other dimensions are not outstanding performance, but also likely to cause muscle damage problems.
3. The correct use of the fascia gun is popularized
Is the fascia gun harmful? Sometimes the fascia gun causes muscle damage, not the "pot" of the fascia gun itself, but the incorrect way of operating the fascia gun, so how to use the fascia gun? There are mainly the following five points that you need to pay attention to.
1. Massage along the texture of the muscles
When using the fascia gun, you need to move according to the texture and direction of the muscles, so as to achieve a more ideal massage effect.
2. Select the appropriate type of massage head
Many fascia guns will be equipped with various types of massage heads, you can choose the right massage head according to the different hitting positions, such as the round massage head has a uniform massage force, which can massage the muscles of the whole body, while the flat massage head has a concentrated massage force, which is more suitable for massaging large muscle groups such as thighs and buttocks.
3. Do not impact bones, joints, neck and other parts
The fascia gun is only used on the soft tissues of the muscles, and if you use the fascia gun on the joints, bones, neck, head and other thin muscle layers, it is likely to cause damage to the body.
4. Pay attention to the massage time
The massage time of the fascia gun in the same position is best controlled between 3-5 minutes, and the specific massage time can be adjusted appropriately according to the thickness of the muscles and the type of massage head.
5. Control strength
The use of the fascia gun is not more effective as the more painful, you should control the strength according to your comfort, if you use excessive force when using the fascia gun massage, you may have bruising, muscle pain and even minor muscle lacerations.
4. What are the benefits of using a fascia gun?
Although fascia guns are indeed harmful, people should not be intimidated by these hazards. In fact, as a massage tool, the fascia gun brings us benefits is its job, it can massage and relax the muscles and soft tissues through high-frequency impact, whether it is professional fitness sports or daily life can use it, it can also bring us the following five benefits.
Benefit 1: Relieve fasciitis
When suffering from fasciitis, the patient will continue to feel pain, and the high-frequency vibration of the fascia gun can know the deep fascia, help everyone promote the recovery of the fascia, take away the inflammatory factors in the fascia, and help the fasciitis patient relieve the pain.
Benefit 2: Prevent muscle atrophy
People who sit for a long time and lack of exercise are more likely to suffer from muscle fibrosis, muscle atrophy and other problems, and the fascia gun can help you massage and relax the tight muscle tissue, promote blood circulation inside the muscle tissue, help the muscles regain vitality, and prevent muscle atrophy, muscle fibrosis and other problems.
Benefit 3: Help everyone warm up quickly
It is very necessary to prepare for warm-up before exercise, otherwise it is likely to be unnecessarily injured if you start exercising rashly, and the fascia gun can help you quickly relax your muscles, promote blood flow in your muscles, increase muscle temperature, and have the effect of muscle stretching and rapid warm-up to avoid injuries caused by rash exercise.
Benefit 4: Reduce physical fatigue
After a long period of exercise and work, the body may feel a strong sense of fatigue, and the fascia gun can help you reduce muscle tissue tension, promote lactate metabolism in muscles, improve muscle soreness, and help you relieve physical fatigue.
Benefit 5: It can improve muscle strain
The fascia gun also has a relieving effect on muscle strain, for example, lumbar muscle strain is a very common problem, the fascia gun can impact the treatment of the lumbar muscles, promote the metabolism and blood circulation of the lumbar muscles, and can help you effectively relieve lumbar pain.
There are many benefits of high-quality fascia guns, but inferior fascia guns will only bring us disadvantages, there are many brands of fascia guns on the market today, from the point of view of parameters, the quality is uneven, it is not easy to choose a high-quality fascia gun, in order to save everyone's time, I cited the power and destructive evaluation data of 17 fascia guns released by professional institutions, and combined with their own experience to find a few good brands for everyone.
Among the many fascia gun brands, AGVIEE Weiye is a brand of extreme sports and health care! It has extremely high requirements for hard-core fever performance, safety and does not hurt muscles, and is recognized as the originator of the field of "no muscle damage" in the industry! The core dimensions such as hitting stability are the most outstanding within 1,000 yuan, and after more than 6 years of anti-attenuation certification, it has achieved 6 years of comprehensive performance, durability, and muscle damage rate certification!
"Unconventional" Weiye has provided motor-related technical solutions for many international brands around the world. In order to achieve performance fever without hurting muscles, cut off redundant functions and models, purely focus on a product for many years, upgrade dozens of times, optimize more than 100 performance details, and promote power, precision, stability, and compatibility! It also pioneered the research and development of eight high-performance and muscle-free black technologies, and created more than 100 tuning standards for motors to ensure that the overall performance deviation value of more than 6 years is not higher than 0.1%! As an extreme sports brand, in order to adapt to the extreme sports environment, a large number of tests in extreme environments have been formed to make the product stable enough!
In the entry fascia gun, Xiaomi, Pineapple's comprehensive cost performance is okay, and the overall quality is okay, but there is still a bit of a gap between the thrust and hitting accuracy and professional brands, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Five or eight ways to take home a high-quality fascia gun!
Now that we know the dangers of fascia guns and the causes of them, we can take targeted measures to avoid them. Here are a few fascia gun purchase methods that I have summarized, which can help you choose a high-quality fascia gun and stay away from harm, let's take a look.
Method 1: Correctly understand the difference between big guns and Mini guns
Men and sports and fitness people are more suitable for big guns, because the massage performance of big guns is better and can more fully relax the needs of muscles, while although the mini gun has high appearance and is easy to carry, its performance is relatively average, and it is only suitable for a small number of women with light and thin muscles.
Method 2: Select a product with appropriate thrust
The thrust of the fascia gun is not simply the bigger the better, but to choose according to their muscle capacity, the average person chooses the thrust in 10 to 20KG of the product is enough, if the thrust of the fascia gun is too strong, it is easy to cause bruising, muscle soreness, swelling and pain, muscle tear and serious damage!
Method 3: Stay away from "custom gears"
Many businesses will use the custom gear of the fascia gun as a selling point, but this design is actually not scientific, its optional space is too large, resulting in the average person can not choose the appropriate massage gear, if the parameters are not set properly, it will also damage the muscles when used, it is recommended that you use the mainstream fascia gun with 3-10 gears.
Method 4: The hitting accuracy of the fascia gun should be high
If the hitting accuracy of the product is low, the hitting trajectory is easy to drift, and the probability of misoperation will be relatively large, which can easily lead to joint damage, bruising and other problems, so it is important to choose a product with high hitting accuracy.
Method 5: Products equipped with brushless motors are more recommended
Brushed motors and brushless motors are the two most commonly used types of motors for mainstream fascia guns, and it is recommended that you choose products equipped with brushless motors, because the stability of brushed motors is poor, the safety is low, and the hitting strength is not stable enough, which is easy to damage muscles when used, may cause swelling and discomfort, and even endanger the safety of joints and bones.
Method 6: Choose a fascia gun with a deep enough amplitude
The depth of the fascia gun is affected by the amplitude, the deep fascia is usually about 8-12mm under the skin, so it is best to use products with an amplitude of more than 10-12mm to ensure that the muscles and fascia can be fully massaged and relaxed.
Method 7: Stay away from international brands
The fascia guns of international brands are basically IQ taxes, the performance of the products is not very good, and the premium is also very high, and the international brands are generally designed according to the body type of European and American fitness people, the product is difficult to be compatible with the muscle characteristics of the Chinese people, and it is easy to have problems such as too strong hitting force and uneven and stable strength after use, damaging everyone's muscle tissue, causing muscle tearing and soreness!
Method 8: Stay away from fascia guns that have too many functions
Some fascia guns will be equipped with many functions, such as hot and cold compresses, smart APP, etc., these functions are actually gimmicks, not only can not improve the massage effect, but also easy to reduce the stability and reliability of the fascia gun!
The above is all the content shared about this issue, although there is a lot of content, but as long as you figure out the reasons why the fascia gun damages the muscles, learn eight ways to buy, you can easily choose a high-quality fascia gun that suits you, stay away from the harm of the fascia gun, let it bring benefits to our health, relieve muscle fatigue, relax muscles, prevent muscle atrophy, etc., and become a good helper in our life and work!