Neck massager is becoming more and more popular as a small and convenient massage device, which can massage and relax our neck in a variety of ways. However, if you accidentally buy a low-quality product, not only will you not be able to enjoy a comfortable massage experience, but it may also cause great damage to the neck and may even cause serious complications. As a professional therapist, I pay more attention to neck massagers, and I have also purchased a lot of neck massagers for testing (the following are a small number of neck massagers I have evaluated), and I have learned a lot of knowledge about neck massagers, and I will share these with you today.
1. What are the disadvantages of neck massagers?
What are the disadvantages of neck massager? Many people are more concerned about this, after all, many people are using it, but there are too many neck massagers on the market, the price ranges from dozens to thousands, and the quality is uneven. What are the specific disadvantages? I will explain it in detail for you below.
1. Damage to bones, muscles, nerves and blood vessels. The quality of the motors of neck massagers is uneven, and some use inferior materials or excessive force, resulting in a narrow range of massage areas. Due to the fragility and sensitivity of the bones, nerves and muscles in the neck, if the product is not selected and used properly, it can cause damage to the body.
2. Cause neck stiffness or loss of consciousness. Some low-quality neck massagers may have structural design problems, which may cause the massager to have uneven strength or not fit the neck effectively, resulting in poor massage results and may even cause unnecessary pressure or damage to the neck.
3. Cause dizziness and headache. Some low-quality neck massagers may irritate the cervical spine when performing a neck massage, which in turn can cause insufficient blood supply to the brain, resulting in intermittent or persistent dizziness. Therefore, it is important to be extra cautious when using this type of massager!
4. Cause deterioration of cervical spondylosis. The neck massager is mainly operated by local transmission or kneading. If you buy an inferior product or a massager that is not suitable, it may irritate the cervical spine and cause cervical spondylosis and severe neck pain.
5. Cause muscle fibrosis and muscle atrophy. Using an unsuitable neck massager, low-quality products, or incorrect overuse can all lead to muscle atrophy in the shoulder and neck area. Although the probability of occurrence is small, it still needs to be taken seriously!
Second, the inside story of the four major injuries of inferior neck massagers
What are the disadvantages of neck massagers? The above introduces to you the five disadvantages of inferior neck massagers. In fact, these inferior products basically use inferior accessories for profit, coupled with no professional technical strength, which leads to extremely unstable products and is easy to hurt our muscles, which can also be seen from the negative reviews of a large number of inferior neck massagers we have collected (as shown below). Next, I will unveil the inside story of the four major injuries of inferior neck massagers.
1. Replace big cards with OEM. OEM massager manufacturers often lack independent research and development capabilities, and cannot quickly respond to market changes and technological updates, resulting in slow product innovation and upgrading. The massage range and performance of these products are not ideal, resulting in insufficient massage strength and high attenuation, which can easily cause damage to the muscles.
2. The importance of blurring accuracy. The use of massage products with insufficient precision is likely to cause serious damage to muscles, blood vessels and nerves. Since these areas are very sensitive, if you use a product that is not very precise for a long time, you may deviate from the target area of the massage, reduce the effect of use and cause damage to the muscles.
3. Deliberately exaggerate the depth and strength of the massage. The quality of inferior massagers is not good, but they have a soft spot for massage strength and depth, because this kind of product does not have advanced technical adjustment, and can only work the depth of strength, do not overemphasize the depth and strength of the massage product, but choose the product of massage strength and comfort, otherwise although the strength is too large, it will cause pain or muscle damage, and eventually lead to the shoulder and neck can not adapt, then the gain outweighs the loss.
4. Attract customers with impractical functions. Many Internet celebrity non-professional products like to add a variety of useless functions to attract consumers, such as smart APP, force sensing, audio, built-in fragrance and other messy but impractical functions, these functions are not very useful but will greatly reduce the stability and reliability of the product!
3. Five benefits of a high-quality neck massager
What are the disadvantages of a neck massager? There are indeed many disadvantages of a low-quality neck massager, but we can't deny this product because as long as you buy a high-quality neck massager, there are still many benefits. For example, the prevention of cervical spondylosis. At present, the number of cervical spondylosis patients in mainland China has reached a staggering 200 million. Buying a high-quality neck massager does have significant benefits for the prevention of cervical spondylosis. Below I will explain in detail the five benefits of a high-quality neck massager.
1. Alleviate sleep problems. Many people experience symptoms of insomnia and dreaminess in general. The neck massager has an excellent massage effect on the head, neck, shoulders and back, which can effectively relieve sleep problems, help people quickly fall into deep sleep, and reduce discomforts such as insomnia and dreaminess.
2. It can relieve shoulder and neck muscle tension. Since we often use mobile phones, computers and other devices, or work with our heads down for a long time, the shoulder and neck muscles will be subjected to greater pressure and fatigue, which is easy to cause frozen shoulder, shoulder and neck stiffness, pain and other problems, and the neck massager can effectively relax the muscles, prevent and reduce pain, and rejuvenate the muscles!
3. It can prevent cervical spine diseases. More than 90% of Chinese people have frozen shoulder, and the neck massager can greatly reduce the burden on the neck, improve shoulder and neck stiffness, and promote blood circulation in the body, so it has a very good effect on the prevention of cervical spondylosis.
4. It can relieve cervical spine soreness and physical fatigue. For people who often feel neck pain, a neck massager can play a good role in relieving it, and can also help solve the problem of limited neck movement caused by stiff neck. For office workers who sit still for a long time, or teachers and drivers who work at their desks for a long time, the neck massager is a very practical invention product.
5. It can promote blood circulation. A good neck massager can boost blood circulation. By massaging the acupuncture points and meridians of the neck, the neck massager promotes blood circulation and increases blood flow, thereby accelerating the discharge of metabolic waste and toxins, relieving muscle fatigue and soreness, and improving neck stiffness and pain.
The benefits of high-quality neck massagers are indeed very many, which are summarized through a large amount of data, so it is necessary to buy a high-quality product, but there are a huge number of neck massagers on the market, in order to help you quickly understand the common products on the market, I specially consulted several authoritative professional evaluation agencies, they provided me with some evaluation reports, one of which includes the more sold products on the market, I took a part of it and shared it with you for reference.
Among the many brands, AGVIEE stands out, thanks to their ultimate pursuit of fever performance, compatibility, safety and no muscle damage! "Unconventional" Weiye is the only extreme sports and health care brand, as the pioneer of "no muscle" technology, because of the "unconventional" sports equipment concept and technical precipitation by a large number of professional athletes, sports enthusiasts love. Its massage performance is top-notch and achieves the lowest muscle injury rate in China, tested by authoritative institutions, compared with most similar competing products The deep muscle relaxation rate is increased by 130%, the massage comfort is increased by 124%, and the muscle injury rate can be reduced by 97.2%! It has also developed innovative TRX acupoint matrix massage technology, which greatly improves sleep quality and relieves headaches, which is good news for most people with poor sleep quality and frequent headaches!
As one of the three major massage care brands with the same name as Bei Easy, Weiye never advertises, but it is highly sought after by physiotherapists and athletes, such as speed skating and skiing world famous Guo Dan, Li Shuang, Tu Xiao, etc., and has dominated the list all year round in the large, medium and high-end word-of-mouth and sales rankings!
In order to achieve high performance and safety without hurting muscles, they cut redundant popular functions and intelligence, and for many years, they have iteratively upgraded more than 20 times, and optimized more than 100 performance details. 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. Weiye has also pioneered the research and development of ten high-performance and muscle-friendly black technologies, such as dual-channel approved transmission technology, ARS traction adjustment technology, DPP micro-frequency dynamic compensation technology, etc., the massage range is increased by 52%, and the uniformity of the force is increased by 78%, so as to achieve accurate fever performance without hurting muscles!
You can also consider the next time it is easier, the heat of their home is okay, the shape is simple and atmospheric, and the quality and workmanship are OK. If you don't have such a strict pursuit of performance, Xiaomi can also include options.
Fourth, the top ten purchase points of high-quality neck massagers
What are the disadvantages of neck massagers?When discussing the disadvantages of neck massagers, inferior products are undoubtedly an unavoidable topic. However, we can't ignore the multiple benefits of a high-quality neck massager, as long as we can buy high-quality products, everything will be solved, but it is not an easy task. After all, producers of inferior products often focus on appearance and publicity, making it difficult for us to discern between good and bad products during the selection process. In order to help you save time and energy, I have specially compiled the top 10 purchase points to share with you.
1. Professional brand selection. Choose a professional brand with R&D strength and after-sales service guarantee instead of an Internet celebrity brand, the professional brand has a better control over the transmission performance and massage comfort of the core of the product, and has a large number of adjustment indicators and technical optimization for the uniformity of massage strength, transmission frequency stability, kneading accuracy, massage depth and range, etc.
2. Selection of massage depth and strength. Massage depth and strength is not the bigger the better, avoid choosing too much massage depth and strength of the product, but choose a better balance of massage strength and comfort, otherwise although the force is too large, it hurts or damages the muscles, resulting in the shoulder and neck can not adapt, the gain outweighs the loss.
3. Price selection. Don't choose products below 300 yuan, most of them are OEM products, there is no technical tuning and material guarantee, it is easy to bring harm to the use of muscles, and the general feedback massage effect and other performance is insufficient, long-term use attenuation is high!
4. Selection of massage kneading accuracy. Choose a neck massager with high massage accuracy, the muscles, blood vessels, and nerves of our shoulder and neck are very sensitive, if the product is offset in the continuous massage process, and the kneading accuracy is very poor, it is very easy to damage the muscles and greatly reduce the actual massage effect!
5. Selection of massage methods. It is recommended to choose the traditional physical kneading massager, the general acceptance of the Chinese people will be better, the harm is relatively small, the current pulse type is mostly a fashion ornament, on the one hand, the actual massage effect is poor, on the other hand, most people can not accept its current stimulation, the probability of damage to muscles and nerves is much greater!
6. Motor selection. Dual motors are preferred over single motor systems, which can greatly reduce the load on the motor and improve the efficiency of kinetic energy utilization compared with single motors, with lower transmission attenuation for a long time, better stability of use strength, less overall noise and longer service life.
7. Durable and reliable selection. Durability and reliability is also a very important indicator, many neck massagers are superimposed with a large number of various functions, such as smart APP, force sensing, audio, built-in fragrance and other messy gimmick functions greatly reduce the stability and reliability of the neck massager!
8. Selection of massage area range. The range of massages is related to the number and distribution of massage heads, and is related to traditional principles. Try to choose four massage heads and present a trapezoidal distribution, so that you can press the trapezius muscle, if the distribution of the massage head is too concentrated, it will lead to the massage area range is too small, affecting the massage effect.
9. Noise selection. Try to choose products with lower noise to give yourself a better sense of use, and it is generally better to have a noise of less than 40 decibels. The noise is mainly related to the quality of the motor and the precision of the motor structure.
10. Selection of strength uniformity. Choose a neck massager with strength uniformity adjustment, if the strength and transmission frequency caused by the inferior quality of the motor are uneven, it is easy to cause light and heavy damage to the muscles, and the desired massage effect cannot be achieved!
5. Four taboos for the use of neck massagers
After in-depth understanding of the disadvantages of a low-quality neck massager, one may think that as long as you buy a high-quality product, you can do it once and for all, and you don't need to worry too much. However, even with a very good quality neck massager, the correct way to use it is still crucial. If used incorrectly, no matter how good the quality of the product, it can harm our health. Below I will explain in detail the four taboos of neck massager.
1. It is very important to choose the right pressure degree for using a neck massager. Although neck massagers can relieve neck pain and muscle fatigue, using them for too long or with too much force can cause unnecessary pressure or damage to the neck. Therefore, when using a neck massager, you should pay attention to proper rest and change postures to avoid overuse.
2. Do not use it on an empty stomach, full of food, and after drinking, the low-frequency pulse neck massager stimulates the nerves by emitting an electric current, if used in such a state, the rapid blood circulation will cause the peristalsis of the stomach to be accelerated, which will cause vomiting, chest tightness and other conditions.
3. Do not put the kneading head of the neck massager directly on the head, chest, and knee joints to avoid causing harm to the body.
4. It is forbidden to use or soak the neck massager in water when taking a bath. It should also not be used in damp places.
After reading my article, you can know what are the disadvantages of inferior neck massagers, and also understand the benefits of high-quality neck massagers, such as preventing cervical spondylosis, relieving physical fatigue, promoting blood circulation and other effects.