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Mas­sage chairs help relieve ten­sion from the mus­cles and spine, improve blood cir­cu­la­tion and lymph flow, restore strength and relax after a busy day.^1.2. This is a great alter­na­tive to going to a mas­sage ther­a­pist and a chi­ro­prac­tor. With the help of a mas­sage chair, you can take care of your health, improve your mood and well-being, and all this in a com­fort­able envi­ron­ment.^2.3.

Our expert — senior sales con­sul­tant for mas­sage chairs Oleg Lebe­dev helped to choose the 10 best mod­els for home and office. When choos­ing mod­els for our rat­ing, sev­er­al para­me­ters were tak­en into account: price, num­ber of videos and pro­grams, ease of oper­a­tion, the pres­ence of addi­tion­al options, such as acupunc­ture palm mas­sage, a hood and a wig­gle mode.

It should be borne in mind that many unscrupu­lous man­u­fac­tur­ers indi­cate more pil­lows and rollers than they actu­al­ly are. For exam­ple, a man­u­fac­tur­er divides 1 pil­low into 2–6 sec­tions, which does not affect the effec­tive­ness of the chair in any way, but allows you to increase the num­ber of pil­lows by 2–6 times in the prod­uct descrip­tion. This is a com­mon mar­ket­ing ploy. The same sit­u­a­tion with rollers. Users should be aware that one car­riage can­not have more than 4 rollers that move in all axes.

There are 5 pre­mi­um and 5 bud­get mas­sage chairs in our rat­ing. They dif­fer from each oth­er in the fol­low­ing para­me­ters:

• Num­ber of pro­grams. In pre­mi­um mod­els, there are 16–25 pro­grams with fine tun­ing. In econ­o­my options, there are usu­al­ly no more than 12 pro­grams, and they can­not be con­fig­ured, and they prac­ti­cal­ly do not dif­fer from each oth­er.
• The num­ber of rollers. Pre­mi­um mod­els have from 10 to 12 rollers, econ­o­my mod­els have from 4 to 8. Of course, we are talk­ing about an “hon­est” num­ber of rollers.
• 3D-4D mas­sage func­tion. In the pre­mi­um seg­ment, 4D mas­sage means that the rollers move on all axes. In the econ­o­my seg­ment, a max­i­mum of 3D mas­sage is pos­si­ble when the rollers move left and right, up and down, but not in depth. And this is essen­tial for high-qual­i­ty mus­cle devel­op­ment.
• The Zero‑G option, or zero grav­i­ty option, is the angle of the chair at which the user is in the most com­fort­able posi­tion. In pre­mi­um chairs, the angle of incli­na­tion is max­i­mum. In the econ­o­my seg­ment, the chair does not tilt as it should, and this affects the sen­sa­tions.
• Foot mas­sage. There is noth­ing to com­plain about in the pre­mi­um seg­ment, but in the econ­o­my seg­ment in most cas­es it is absent, and where it is, then there are only 1–2 rollers per foot.
• Body scan. This is a manda­to­ry fea­ture in pre­mi­um mod­els. With its help, the chair “deter­mines” the loca­tion of the user’s shoul­ders and adjusts the pro­grams so that the mas­sage effect “falls” on the desired zones. In the econ­o­my seg­ment, this func­tion is absent, which sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduces the effec­tive­ness of mas­sage.
• Palm mas­sage. Most chairs from the pre­mi­um seg­ment have this fea­ture. The econ­o­my options do not.
• Con­trol. In pre­mi­um mod­els, con­trol is car­ried out using a touch screen. Plus, some mod­els addi­tion­al­ly have a remote con­trol. In the chairs from the econ­o­my seg­ment, there is only a mechan­i­cal remote con­trol.
• Adjust­ment to the dimen­sions of the user. In chairs from the pre­mi­um seg­ment, due to the design, mate­ri­als and the “body scan” func­tion, a per­son of any body size can sit. In bud­get chairs, this is often a prob­lem. The chair must be cho­sen for you.

Rating of the top 10 massage chairs for home and office

1. Kezga Chair

The first place in our rat­ing is occu­pied by a chair from the Kez­ga brand. This man­u­fac­tur­er sells goods direct­ly, with­out deal­ers, shops and inter­me­di­aries, due to which mas­sage chairs are 2 or even 4 times more prof­itable than com­peti­tors.

This chair has 24 auto­mat­ic pro­grams, as well as addi­tion­al man­u­al ones. The chair has 12 mas­sage rollers, and a guide of 136 cm allows 4 rollers to move over the entire back area and in all planes, also work­ing on the gluteal mus­cle. The oth­er 6 rollers are respon­si­ble for foot mas­sage — 3 for each foot. The remain­ing 2 mas­sage the calves from behind in a cir­cu­lar motion.

The dif­fer­ence between this mas­sage chair and oth­er mod­els is that the con­trol pan­el with a joy­stick (in addi­tion to the touch screen) is locat­ed right at hand in such a way that dur­ing the mas­sage you do not have to pull your hand out of the chair.

This mod­el has a spe­cial hood over the head, which many even the most expen­sive com­peti­tors do not have. The body scan func­tion and mul­ti­ple air cush­ions help posi­tion the body in the right way and lock it where you want it when you need it. Also in the chair there is a func­tion of heat­ing, rock­ing and Zero G func­tion. In addi­tion, stereo speak­ers are pro­vid­ed in the mas­sage chair, you can turn on your music via blue­tooth. There is also wired and wire­less phone charg­ing.

The design of the chair is futur­is­tic and at the same time strict, so it will fit per­fect­ly into any inte­ri­or. The man­u­fac­tur­er offers an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to return the chair with­in 2 weeks if the prod­uct is not to your lik­ing.

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Kez­ga Chair

Futur­is­tic mas­sage chair

Mod­el with 24 mas­sage pro­grams for work­ing out the whole body at a bar­gain price and with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a return.

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2. Yamaguchi Xi

The chair has 12 mas­sage rollers — 6 of them are designed for back mas­sage, and they are locat­ed on 2 car­riages inde­pen­dent of each oth­er (4 on one and 2 on the oth­er) and are designed to mas­sage dif­fer­ent areas: from the neck to the sub­scapu­lar region and from the low­er back to hips. Accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, this design pro­vides bet­ter mus­cle devel­op­ment and pleas­ant tac­tile sen­sa­tions. Among users, opin­ions on this mat­ter are con­tra­dic­to­ry. The remain­ing 6 rollers are used for foot mas­sage.

The num­ber of pro­grams is small — only 12, plus 6 man­u­al modes. There are pro­grams for women and men, as well as light­ing for light ther­a­py. There is a Zero‑G option, infrared heat­ing and Sleep Time func­tion. With its help, the chair is fixed in the most com­fort­able posi­tion in order to sleep after the ses­sion is over. This mod­el has sev­er­al con­trol options — the voice is trig­gered by a but­ton on the left arm­rest, and the touch con­trol is locat­ed on the right.

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3. Casada SkyLiner 2

This chair has 23 auto­mat­ic pro­grams plus 5 man­u­al modes. 4 mas­sage rollers help to work out the upper body, and the remain­ing 4 feet (2 rollers for each). There is heat­ing, 3D mas­sage func­tion and acupunc­ture hand mas­sage. And with the help of the Zero‑G or “zero grav­i­ty” option, the chair auto­mat­i­cal­ly moves the user into a posi­tion con­ve­nient for relax­ation — at an angle of 40˚ to the sur­face. For con­trol, a touch pad and but­tons on the out­side of the chair are pro­vid­ed, which is not very con­ve­nient.

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4 US Medica Jet

A chair with a ver­sa­tile design suit­able for home and office. This mod­el has 22 pro­grams, 10 auto modes for com­bin­ing mas­sage zones and 5 auto modes for each zone sep­a­rate­ly. There are 8 mas­sage rollers (4 for the back and 4 for the feet), and thanks to the 4D mas­sage func­tion, they can move in three planes with dif­fer­ent speeds and rota­tion inten­si­ty. The chair allows you to do an air-com­pres­sion mas­sage of the knees with simul­ta­ne­ous heat­ing. There is no rock­ing func­tion and a hood, but there is an acupunc­ture sur­face for mas­sag­ing the palms, LED light­ing and a stereo sys­tem. Man­age­ment is car­ried out using the joy­stick on the right arm­rest.

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5. Yamaguchi X

The mod­el is equipped with a dou­ble roller mas­sage mech­a­nism. Two inde­pen­dent car­riages with 6 rollers (4 on one and 2 on the oth­er) pro­vide the study of two zones: from the neck to the shoul­ders and sub­scapu­laris and from the waist to the hips. Thanks to the Zero G func­tion, the user is in an almost hor­i­zon­tal posi­tion dur­ing the ses­sion, which reduces the load on the spine and joints and improves relax­ation.

This mod­el of mas­sage chair has 12 pro­grams, among which there is “Lotus” for women and “Sen­sei” for men. The mas­sage effect in these pro­grams takes into account the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the female and male body. There is also a body scan func­tion.

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6. VictoryFit VF-M58

This inex­pen­sive mas­sage chair is equipped with 4 rollers for influ­enc­ing dif­fer­ent areas of the body. The mod­el allows you to per­form 3 types of mas­sage: point Shi­at­su, air-com­pres­sion and relax­ing. How­ev­er, the chair lacks an acupunc­ture sur­face for palm mas­sage, as well as 3D and 4D mas­sage func­tions, which are only in pre­mi­um mod­els. Calves can be worked out with the help of air cush­ions, of which there are 9 in this mod­el. There is an option for heat­ing the back and seat and Zero Grav­i­ty — fix­ing the chair in a posi­tion in which the user’s body is at an angle of 35–40˚ to the sur­face. True, the Zero Grav­i­ty option works worse than in pre­mi­um seg­ment mod­els, so the seat is not fixed very secure­ly. A key­pad is used to con­trol the chair.

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7. OTO Quantum EQ-10

OTO Quan­tum EQ-10 is an inex­pen­sive mas­sage chair with tex­tile uphol­stery and ergonom­ic design. The man­u­fac­tur­er promis­es that only 1 square meter of space is need­ed to accom­mo­date this mod­el. The chair has 8 mas­sage rollers that move along the L‑shaped car­riage and knead the back, neck and low­er back. There is a 3D effect. The mod­el is equipped with 9 airbags, heat­ing option and zero grav­i­ty. Pro­grams in total 4 and 5 modes — stroking, tap­ping, rolling, knead­ing and com­bined. These modes allow you to set the nature and inten­si­ty of the mas­sage effect.

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8. Ergonova Mini RT

The com­pact Ergono­va Mini RT chair is designed for users up to 180 cm tall and weigh­ing up to 120 kg. This mod­el has a car­riage 120 cm long. This allows 4 mas­sage rollers to work out the zones from the neck to the hips. The num­ber of pro­grams is min­i­mal — there are only 2 of them. There are 3 mas­sage modes — Shi­at­su, wave-like and air-com­pres­sion with 6 air bags. There is a func­tion of heat­ing and zero grav­i­ty, a stereo sys­tem and a built-in remote con­trol.

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9. Sensa M Starter

Fea­tures of this mod­el — the pres­ence of the func­tion of scan­ning and pause. The built-in micro­com­put­er scans the posi­tion of the user’s shoul­ders and per­forms indi­vid­ual adjust­ment of mas­sage pro­grams. The pause func­tion allows you to pause the mas­sage when the user needs it. The chair has 6 pro­grams, 3 of them are tuned to cer­tain areas of the body: neck and shoul­der, upper and low­er. The remain­ing 3 pro­grams are the “Morn­ing”, “Recov­ery” and “Relax­ation” modes. The Zero‑G func­tion puts the chair in a “zero grav­i­ty” posi­tion, the heat­ing func­tion allows you to warm up your back, calves and feet.

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10 Meridien Fiji

Our rat­ing of the best mas­sage chairs is com­plet­ed by an inex­pen­sive mod­el with a lacon­ic design Meri­di­en Fiji. It pro­vides a neck mas­sage and an incom­plete back mas­sage due to the sta­t­ic car­riage and rollers. Only vibra­tion mas­sage is respon­si­ble for the area of ​​the hips and but­tocks. The mod­el has 6 pro­grams and a heat­ing func­tion, but there are no airbags and the “zero grav­i­ty” option. Man­age­ment is car­ried out using a remote con­trol built into the right arm­rest. When buy­ing, keep in mind that the mod­el is designed for users weigh­ing up to 100 kg.

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How to choose a massage chair

As our expert Oleg Lebe­dev notes, the choice of a mas­sage chair mod­el depends on the pur­pose of its pur­chase — for home relax­ation or for the office.

- First of all, many peo­ple look at the price, but I advise you to pay atten­tion to the con­di­tions of return. It depends on how easy it will be to return the prod­uct if you don’t like it or it turns out to be defec­tive,” notes Oleg Lebe­dev.

In addi­tion to the price and return con­di­tions, it is impor­tant to pay atten­tion to the fol­low­ing para­me­ters:

• the weight that the chair can sup­port — the more, the bet­ter;
• exe­cu­tion of the chair — length, shape, mate­ri­als;
• the loca­tion of the rollers and pil­lows for mas­sage;
• ease of con­trol — in inex­pen­sive mas­sage chairs, only a remote con­trol is pro­vid­ed, in pre­mi­um ones, in addi­tion to the remote con­trol, there is a touch screen;
• the num­ber of pro­grams and modes, as well as the abil­i­ty to con­fig­ure them;
• addi­tion­al options — for exam­ple, the pres­ence of a hood, infrared heat­ing or a wig­gle mode.

It must be said that the mate­ri­als in the chairs of the top seg­ment prac­ti­cal­ly do not dif­fer, it’s just that some­times they come up with fash­ion­able names. The chairs are about the same size. But the design can be dif­fer­ent: for exam­ple, there are chairs of tra­di­tion­al shape and in the form of a cap­sule.

It is very impor­tant how the user feels in the chair. For exam­ple, mod­els with a hood (visor on top) help a per­son “hide” from the eyes of oth­ers. In a chair with a hood, the user feels com­fort­able, which pro­motes relax­ation. And if you put such chairs in a row, then those sit­ting in them will not see each oth­er.

Or, for exam­ple, anoth­er option is a closed leg block. It makes the mod­el more com­fort­able for the user, plus the mas­sage in such a block is of bet­ter qual­i­ty.

Massage chair expert reviews

— I think that the emer­gence of mas­sage chairs is a huge achieve­ment. In addi­tion, recent progress has stepped far for­ward. Now for sane mon­ey you can buy an excel­lent chair, which in many cas­es will replace a mas­sage ther­a­pist.

Of course, if you have seri­ous health prob­lems and require a spe­cial mas­sage, then you can use the chair only after con­sult­ing a doc­tor or dur­ing the ses­sion do not affect prob­lem areas. But in most cas­es, a chair is a con­ve­nient, safe and effec­tive device that allows you to get a mas­sage at any time, choose the type and dura­tion of expo­sure on your own,” notes our expert Oleg Lebe­dev. – And also a chair and eco­nom­i­cal­ly prof­itable. You can find out how much it costs to call a mas­sage ther­a­pist at home, and then fig­ure out how many times a year you may need a mas­sage. Most like­ly, you will come to the con­clu­sion that it is more prof­itable to buy a chair and use it at any con­ve­nient time.

Popular questions and answers

The pos­si­bil­i­ties of mas­sage chairs are of inter­est to many poten­tial buy­ers. Our expert Oleg Lebe­dev answers the most pop­u­lar ques­tions about these devices.