Massage Chair Glossary

The chair contains a small vent near the headrest to facilitate healthy oxygen intake by emitting negatively charged ions to reduce intake of pollutants.

Airbags are located throughout the chair that inflate and deflate to provide a compression sensation on the muscles that feel like real human hands. Each chamber within an airbag is called an air cell.

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Operate the chair right from your Apple or Android device with a free download of its app-based functionality.

Get a more precise fit with adjustable shoulder airbags to better suit your body.

Convenient and easy-to-use automated and choreographed programs with the push of a button. Each program automatically changes massage techniques, intensities, and chair movements to create a complete massage session.

Control the airbag intensity when you need more or less.

The footrest automatically extends mechanically to best accommodate a user’s leg length.

Use your phone or Bluetooth device to create your own world of relaxation.

Detects the position of your body in the chair and targets specific areas of your body, such as the shoulders or calves, in order to deliver an accurate massage

Chromotherapy lights use the color spectrum to help balance one’s physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental energy. Lights on the side of the chair illuminate to set the mood.

Chromotherapy uses color spectrum to help balance one’s physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental energy. Special programmed light therapy sequences help you wake up or wind down and can be combined with the perfect massage.

The ultimate in lower leg relief. The calf area of each leg contains kneading rollers in the back and orbital oscillation on the sides of the calves to soothe sore, tired calf muscles. The rollers and oscillation imitate human hands gently working to relieve tension and pain and restore circulation and flexibility. Simultaneously, the multiple air cells provide compression with adjustable intensity.

Full-color display allows a menu-driven interface for added features over static displays or control panels.

Control all of the aspects of your massage right from the control panel, no display required.

Static color screen to show what is happening with the chair.

During this full-body stretch, the massage chair’s airbags grip your shoulders and legs as it reclines accordingly to soothe and relieve your spine. The spinal correction feature uses powerful stretching techniques to extend and decompress your spine in order to relieve back pain.

Specific massage technique that helps muscle or connective tissue that has been injured or otherwise compromised; used to break up scar tissue, release adhesions where muscle or tissue layers have stuck together, or separate chronically tense muscle fibers

The back nodes, sometimes called rollers, compress your muscles through tapping and kneading motions to relieve muscle tension.

Deep penetrating heat loosens and relaxes stressed muscles to prepare them for optimal recovery. Advanced heat in the lumbar and in the back massage nodes deliver unmatched heat therapy.

Control all aspects of your massage with easy access control right at your fingertips. No need to reach for the remote.

The longest calf massage available combining air massage and node pressure point relief from the knees down to your feet. Circulation enhancement for pressure & tension relief.

Favorites allow you to access the auto program of your choice on the quick access panel that has this feature.

Replicating thumb and finger technique of applying pressure to vital points on the soles of the feet, which send relief to other areas of the body.

Intersound technology leverages opposing Bluetooth speakers mounted to create a bubble of immersive sound. Stream your choice of music, meditation tracks, or soothing soundscapes.

The chair reclines back below a horizontal level, to below 180 degrees. This technique puts your body inverted with your head down and heels up to relieve pressure on the vertebrae.

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The unique J-Track combines the best of L and S-Tracks with the track opening up some upon recline while allowing the mechanism to continue down to the gluteus region.  The result is superior spinal decompression and full-length neck-to-glutes massage.

Repetitive sweeping motion coming together and pushing apart mimicking the use of thumbs in human massage.

Simultaneous use of kneading and tapping techniques.

Slow rolling up and down strokes mimicking thumbs pressing into the muscle as they move up and down the back.

The L-Track follows the curve of the spine, moving up and down the neck to the lower back, and extending further down the body to your gluteus muscles, ensuring that you receive an encompassing spa-quality massage.

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Reclined position that effectively stretches and decompresses the lower back area to relieve pain and tension

Heating modules located in the lower back of the chair provide a soothing sensation and loosen your muscles to better prepare your body for the massage.

MyMassage™ programs allow you to build a manual massage sequence then save it to run as your very own program to enjoy time after time just by recalling it.

The S-Track rollers follow the curve of the spine, moving up and down from the neck to the lower back. This feature gives you a full-body stretch — the hips are held in place while the legs are pulled down, stretching your back.

Massage strokes that marry up to the music being played through the speakers.

The chair rocks back and forth in a metronome-based movement to provide the classic rocking chair feeling for soothing relaxation.

S-Track design matches the natural shape of your spine in order to hit all your areas of tension and properly realign your body from your neck down to your lumbar region. The S-Track ends at your lumbar region allowing the chair to pivot in a more flat, reclined position to create superior stretching motions.

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A form of Japanese bodywork based on the theoretical framework of traditional Chinese medicine; shiatsu means “finger pressure”, and techniques include massages with fingers, thumbs, feet and palms; assisted stretching; and joint manipulation and mobilization

A deep tissue rolling stroke with constant pressure applied as the nodes travel up and down the back.

Enabling sleep mode will keep the chair reclined after your massage program ends; allow yourself to enter a deep state of relaxation until you decide to get up.

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Most common type of massage that involves soft, long, kneading strokes, as well as light, rhythmic, tapping strokes, on topmost layers of muscles; this is combined with movement of the joints; four common strokes are effleurage, petrissage, friction, and tapotement

A variation of kneading with the added back and forth motion as the sweeping action happens.

Two individual massage mechanisms choreographed to work synergistically together to perform therapeutic relief to the Back and Gluteus region. Utilizing 2D, 3D, and 4D technologies in harmony for the most advanced chair massage available today.

Fully control all aspects of your massage with touch screen tablet.

A light percussion (or tapotement) movement that imitates fingers tapping on the back and shoulder muscles

Arm compression therapy relieves arm, wrist, and hand tension while enhancing circulation. Relax & enjoy the sensation of human hands relieving stress throughout your tired muscles.

Immerse your feet with all-around compression massage to squeeze out tension

Touch-sensitive display screen allows for simple navigation through the remote.

This feature has the broadest coverage of the foot sole allowed in a massage chair today utilizing triple shiatsu rollers per foot attending to the vital pressure points on the feet linked to other parts of the body.

Deep penetrating heat loosens and relaxes stressed muscles to prepare them for optimal recovery. Advanced heat in the foot, the lumbar, and in the back massage nodes deliver unmatched heat therapy.

The chair reclines back below a horizontal level, to below 180 degrees. This technique puts your body inverted with your head down and heels up to relieve pressure on the vertebrae.

Special technology within the hardware and software of the chair allows the chair to pinpoint the user’s size and shape, providing a customized massage specific to them.

The footrest mechanically extends, then retracts, in order to create a custom length set to the user’s legs.

Charge any USB device with the convenient USB port on-board, located within reach while in the chair. Recharge your phone while you recharge your body.

Compression massage that applies a gentle twist of the hips to stretch tight muscles.

Initially developed by NASA, Zero gravity positioning elevates your feet above your heart, relieves pressure on your spine, and improves circulation. This allows the spine to decompress and provides a sense of weightlessness to aid in the therapeutic benefits of the massage chair.

On-board wireless contact charging pad embedded into the armrest means your phone is recharged when you are.

Cordless and rechargeable, no wires in the way plus a full-color display driving a menu interface for added features over static displays or control panels.