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Are you feeling knotty?

First, please note the spelling. Then, if your tense back or sore muscles are screaming Yes!, keep reading.

While getting weekly or even monthly massages may be beneficial to both your physical and mental health, it can take a chunk out of your paychecks, too. Because of this, many of us deal with our aches and pains by ignoring them, instead of working through the knots with some massage and TLC.

Massage is generally considered part of integrative medicine, according to the Mayo Clinic. Its increasingly being offered along with standard treatment for a wide range of medical conditions and situations. Among the many benefits Mayo cites in relation to both stress and total body wellness:

Heres where an at-home massage device comes into play, providing much needed relief for your body without adding extra stress on your wallet. This is why we tested the Therabody Theragun Mini, the $199 personal and portable percussive therapy massage gun.

For those new to what percussive therapy is, youre not alone. To help explain it, we chatted with Dr. Jason Wersland, founder and chief wellness officer of Therabody, to break it all down.

Basically the up-and-down motion that the Theragun makes is called a percussive motion, he explained in a statement to The Post. That motion along with our specifically calibrated frequency and amplitude moves on and off the body having a positive effect on the body, nerves, and body tissue to ease muscle tension and aches.

The powerful-but-compact device comes with a carrying case so you can bring it pretty much anywhere, from the gym to use in the locker room after an intense workout to the office to use on a sore back due to bad posture or on your arches after wearing uncomfortable shoes. It also has a 150-minute battery life, should you leave your charger at home by accident.

We designed the mini specifically for ease-of-use. Its smaller in nature but doesnt sacrifice power. Its a pocket-sized device, giving Theragun quality muscle treatment with unparalleled portability, explained Dr. Wersland. The compact Theragun mini is the most agile massage device for on-the-go care, small enough to fit into a bag or laptop case, it can go anywhere with you.

The device is sold on Therabodys site in four different colors, including the white version I now have at home, a light taupe brown, black and red in partnership with (PRODUCT)RED, donating a portion of the proceeds between now and Dec. 31 to the Global Fund to support the COVID-19 Response as well as HIV/AIDS programs.

If this is your first foray into personal massage devices, no worries, as the Theragun Mini may be one of the easiest to use. If you need a bit more instruction than the video above or from the included care instructions in your box, they also have a library of training videos on the site that you can do from anywhere.

The device is a great supplement to getting a massage, as Dr. Wersland said that while this isnt a replacement for a trained massage therapist, there are still things you can do to mimic that relaxing experience.

Its a different experience, but if you are looking to replicate the spa experience, lay on your stomach and you can have another person do a full-body sweep from your shoulders to your feet, using Theragun slowly down your body, spending no more than two minutes on any muscle group, Dr. Wersland said.

Personally, even though from my age and lifestyle I should be in top notch shape, my genetics had other things in store for me. It seems like I was born with horrible knots in the four corners of my upper and lower back, and combined with my admittedly bad posture and poor stretching habits, I knew I was a great candidate for the Theragun Mini.

My favorite part was ease of use, as you can really use it anywhere on your body and anywhere you happen to be. I still work from home, so my main treatments happened on my couch or in my desk chair, but I also took it along in my overnight bag on a weekend trip and it was a lifesaver after the public transit ride there and back.

I also loved the three different speed settings, starting with the lowest setting at first but then amping up higher on tougher knots and lowering back down on more sensitive areas. Since youre supposed to treat the gun like an extension of your hand, it was fun to explore the best grip and speed for the treatments and figure out what worked the best for me.

Its a yes from me.

I would say that even after a few sessions using the Theragun Mini on my neck and the four corners of my back, I felt a release of tension. Even better, it seemed easier to have better posture once I was less tense, starting me on a cyclical journey for a more pain-free work day.

If you can afford massages or frequent chiropractor visits, investing the $199 in this is a no brainer to me. And if not, then its a perfect item to have on your holiday wishlist, so feel free to send along this article to your loved ones as a subtle hint before the holidays. Its sold on the Therabody site in four different colors, as well as on Amazon in red, black and white.

Read the rest here:
Review: We tried the Theragun Mini to massage our stress away - New York Post

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