Are cervical massagers harmful to people? As a professional physiotherapist, I am often asked this question, cervical massager is also a tool I often use, it is indeed a good helper for physiotherapy massage, but many people question its true effect, I don't know whether cervical massager is harmful to people, in order to help you thoroughly understand this problem, I visited and consulted a large number of cervical massager manufacturers, and read a lot of professional books about cervical massager, did practical research and testing (the picture below is some of the products I tested), and finally figured out the truth, today I will share it with you, I hope it will help you。
1. Is the cervical massager harmful to people? Be alert to the four major risks!
Some people think that the cervical massager is a very simple structure of equipment, massage is a simple knock and beat, there will be no harm, in fact, this is a complete misunderstanding, cervical massage is actually a very professional thing, the requirements for the cervical massager are still very high, if you accidentally buy inferior products and use them for a long time, it is likely to cause great harm to the body, the following I will analyze the common four hazards for you in depth.
1. Stiff or numb neck. Using an inferior cervical massager may cause damage to the neck, including causing stiffness or numbness in the neck. There are many inferior cervical massagers on the market, which not only cannot have the effect of massage, but may damage muscles and nerves, and even lead to more serious consequences. If you use a cervical massager with poor quality or a small massage area, it may cause stiffness or numbness of the neck muscles, affecting the normal mobility of your neck. This can make you feel uncomfortable or dangerous, and even affect your nervous system and endocrine system.
2. Muscle fibrosis and atrophy. If you use an unsuitable cervical massager, or use a low-quality product, or use it incorrectly or too frequently, it may cause fibrosis and atrophy of your shoulder and neck muscles. This means that your muscles can become stiff, weak, and inelastic, affecting your daily activities and health.
3. Dizziness and headache. Inferior or overly violent cervical massagers may cause irritation to the cervical spine when massaging the neck, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain, which can cause uncomfortable symptoms such as dizziness and headaches. Electromagnetic pulse massagers, in particular, require extra attention as they may have adverse effects on the brain.
4. Cause worsening of cervical spondylosis. The cervical massager is massaged by local stimulation or physical kneading. However, if you choose a massager that is not of the same quality or is not suitable for you, it may cause overstimulation or damage to your cervical spine, making your pre-existing cervical spondylosis symptoms worse and making your neck more painful.
2. Strictly prevent the five major IQ tax products, which will hurt the muscles!
Through in-depth mining and detailed analysis of a large amount of data, I found that the most common problem encountered in the use of inferior cervical massagers is muscle damage. This is mainly because businesses often have problems such as exaggeration, false publicity, shoddy manufacturing and unreasonable design for profit, and the IQ tax products produced will seriously affect the use experience and health and safety of consumers. Recently, I have collected and sorted out a large number of negative reviews about cervical massagers on the market (as shown in the picture below). From this, we can also see some of the problems. Below I will reveal these five IQ tax products for you.
1. Products that use a single motor. The product of a single motor has too much load on the motor, resulting in a decrease in the utilization efficiency of kinetic energy, a more serious transmission attenuation in long-term use, an unstable use of the force, and easy to damage the muscles.
2. Poor adjustment of strength uniformity and unstable products. The quality of the motor used in many products is poor, resulting in uneven massage strength and vibration frequency of the product, which is easy to cause heavy and light damage to the muscles, and can not achieve the expected massage effect!
3. Products that especially pursue massage strength and depth. The depth and intensity of the massage is not always more effective. When choosing the right product for you, you need to consider the balance between massage strength and comfort, avoid using too strong products, which may cause pain or muscle damage, and affect shoulder and neck recovery.
4. Use an electric current stimulation massager. The current stimulation type contacts the skin through the electrodes and stimulates the neuromuscular contraction through the electric current, on the one hand, the massage effect will be reduced, and on the other hand, most people can hardly tolerate its current stimulation, which will cause damage to the muscles and nerves.
5. Products with low massage accuracy. There are many sensitive muscles, blood vessels, and nerves in the shoulder and neck area, and the use of a cervical massager with low massage accuracy is prone to deviation, which not only fails to achieve the ideal massage effect, but also may hurt the muscles!
3. Summary of the five advantages of high-quality cervical massager!
Are cervical massagers harmful to people? This is a question that we have discussed in depth before. According to Sohu.com, more than 200 million people around the world are suffering from cervical spine disease, and the high incidence of this disease is gradually spreading to young adults. As an important tool for effectively preventing and alleviating cervical spine diseases, high-quality cervical massager has a non-negligible role. Next, I will popularize the five advantages of high-quality cervical massager for everyone.
1. Alleviate sleep problems. Nowadays, many people will have insomnia and dreams, and the cervical massager has a good massage effect on the head, neck, shoulders and back, which can well alleviate people's sleep problems, help people quickly enter deep sleep, and alleviate symptoms such as insomnia and dreams.
2. Promote blood circulation in the human body. After transmission and kneading massage, the massager can promote the smooth circulation of blood in the human neck, and relieve headache, dizziness and other pain caused by insufficient or unobstructed qi and blood. This improves sleep quality, provides adequate nutrition for the brain, and keeps the body and mind energized for a long time.
3. Soothe neck pain and body fatigue. For the soreness of the shoulder and neck, the cervical massager has a significant relieving effect, and can effectively improve the problem of inflexibility of the neck and shoulder after stiff neck. It is a remarkable invention for people such as office workers, teachers, and drivers who work for long periods of time or with their heads bowed.
4. It can prevent cervical spine diseases. Most Chinese people suffer from frozen shoulder, and the use of a cervical massager can greatly relieve neck fatigue, improve shoulder and neck stiffness, and promote blood circulation in the body. Therefore, it has a very good effect on the prevention of cervical spondylosis.
5. It can avoid cold on the shoulder and neck. Many people feel cervical spine discomfort and even pain during long hours of work or Xi. At this time, using a good cervical massager can relieve this discomfort. Nowadays, many cervical massagers on the market are also equipped with a hot compress function, which can give warm and comfortable care to the neck while massaging, so as to avoid problems such as colds caused by cold shoulders and necks. Whether it is office white-collar workers, drivers, or the elderly and housewives, they can enjoy the comfort brought by this convenient and practical health product at any time in their daily life.
Based on the fact that there are too many cervical massagers on the market, in order to help you make the wisest judgment, I have consulted a large number of authoritative professional evaluation institutions for the common cervical massagers on the market.
According to the measured data, the extreme sports and health care brand AGVIEE Weiye has the best performance, as the recognized originator in the field of "no muscles", because of the "unconventional" sports equipment concept and technical precipitation by a large number of professional athletes, sports enthusiasts love, it has a strict pursuit of performance, safety and does not hurt muscles, massage uniformity, massage penetration, Kneading more accurate has reached the highest level within 1,000 yuan, tested by authoritative institutions, compared with the vast majority of similar competing products, the deep muscle relaxation rate is increased by 130%, the massage comfort is increased by 124%, the performance is top-notch and the muscle damage rate is reduced by 97.2%!
"Unconventional" Weiye is one of the three major massage care brands with the same name as Bei Easy, but insists on not advertising, focusing on technical tuning and research and development, purely relying on word-of-mouth to gather popularity, mid-to-high-end perennial sales, word-of-mouth first, and is deeply loved by sports gods and physiotherapists, including speed skating, skiing world famous Guo Dan, Li Shuang, Tu Xiao and a large number of professional athletes!
In order to avoid bloated products, poor stability, etc., Weiye Pure has been working hard for many years on high performance, safety and reliability, compatibility, and has also pioneered the creation of 10 "high-performance and muscle-free" black technologies, such as V-ZUS intelligent engine algorithm, dual-channel approved transmission technology, 3D dynamic balance technology, etc.!The massage range has been increased by 52%, the uniformity of strength has been increased by 78%, and after more than 6 years of anti-attenuation design and testing, it has achieved 6 years of comprehensive performance, durability, and muscle damage rate certification, achieving strong performance and the lowest muscle damage rate!
If the requirements for the performance experience are not demanding, then you can consider the next relaxation, which is more famous and has exquisite packaging, but there is still a lot of room for improvement in the performance experience.
Fourth, nine purchase tips to help you easily buy high-quality cervical massagers!
Is cervical massager harmful to people? If we accidentally buy inferior products, it may cause great harm to our health, while high-quality products are completely different. However, high-quality products are not so easy to buy, not only time-consuming and laborious, but also may choose the wrong one, in order to help you buy easily, I have summarized the following nine purchase tips.
1. Choose a brand with strong professional R&D strength. Professional brands have more advantages in the core transmission performance and massage comfort of products, and they pay more attention to debugging and optimization, involving multiple adjustment indicators and technical optimizations such as massage strength uniformity, transmission frequency stability, kneading accuracy, massage depth and range, etc., rather than only focusing on appearance and publicity like some Internet celebrity brands.
2. Choose a traditional physical kneading massager. It is recommended to choose a traditional physical kneading massager, because it is more accepted by the general Chinese people and is relatively less harmful. In contrast, most of the current pulse massagers are just fashion decorations, on the one hand, the actual massage effect is poor, and on the other hand, most people cannot accept their current stimulation, which increases the risk of damage to muscles and nerves.
3. Priority should be given to the dual-motor system. In the selection of motors, preference is given to dual-motor systems over single-motor systems. Compared with a single motor, dual motors can greatly reduce the load on the motor, thereby improving the efficiency of kinetic energy utilization. When used for a long time, the transmission attenuation degree is lower, the use strength is more stable, the overall noise is also smaller, and the service life is longer.
4. Choose a massager with a hot compress function. Choose a massager with a hot compress function, you can apply a hot compress to the neck during the massage to avoid cold on the shoulder and neck. The hot compress function can also increase the comfort and effect of the massage, promote blood circulation and metabolism.
5. Pay attention to the uniformity of strength. Choose a cervical massager with force uniformity adjustment. If the product is uneven in strength and transmission frequency due to poor quality of the motor, it is easy to cause light and heavy massage, thereby damaging the muscles and unable to achieve the expected massage effect.
6. Choose the depth and strength of the massage moderately. It is not always true that the deeper and the more intense the massage is, avoid choosing products that emphasize too much depth and strength. A better choice is a product that balances massage strength and comfort to avoid pain or muscle damage caused by excessive pressure, making it difficult for the shoulder and neck to adapt and the benefits outweigh the losses.
7. Consider the range of massage area. The massage area range is related to the number and distribution of massage heads, as well as to the traditional principles of massage heads. Try to choose a product that has four massage heads and is distributed in a trapezoidal pattern, so that the trapezius area is covered. If the distribution of the massage head is too concentrated, it will result in a small range of massage area, which will reduce the massage effect.
8. Choose a product with moderate weight. Choose a 650-800g cervical massager, too heavy products are naturally easy to give the shoulder and neck pressure, but too light products can not fit the skin, and there is no massage effect!
9. Durability and reliability should be considered. Durability and reliability are also very important indicators. Many cervical massagers stack a variety of features on the function, such as smart APP, force sensing, audio, built-in fragrance, etc., these trivial functions greatly reduce the internal stability and reliability of the cervical massager. This also leads to a decrease in performance and longevity, as well as a decrease in the precision, uniformity and stability of the massage.
Is the cervical massager harmful to people? Inferior cervical massager not only can not bring us a good massage experience, but also may damage our muscles, and high-quality cervical massager can not only avoid the above harms, but also bring us to improve sleep quality, relieve physical and mental exhaustion, promote blood circulation, prevent cervical spondylosis and other benefits. Therefore, when we buy, we must choose a brand with professional research and development strength and does not hurt the muscles, and do not be confused by the so-called Internet celebrities, only in this way can we buy high-quality and easy-to-use cervical massagers, so as to enjoy a beautiful massage life.