6 speeds Handheld Massage Gun, Jocca Massager, 4 Heads Included

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They also loved its app, which guides you through warm-up and post-workout massages and issues warnings if you apply too much pressure.

She managed health and fitness product testing across all the magazines, overseeing all testing processes and ensuring our lab and panel tests are conducted to the highest standards. Our tester praised the device for its versatility and was a big fan of the softer heads, which are great for days when your DOMS are particularly bad. Its laudable range of massage heads includes a four-finger attachment that mimics a human hand (it sounds creepy, but it’s effective! Not only do the best massage guns help aid muscle recovery after exercise, but they can also help anyone looking to relieve muscle pain and increase mobility.

Ideal for use both before and after exercise, before to warm up your muscles and post to help ease soreness. Ideal for use before and after exercise, it has three massage heads and intensity levels to help release tight, aching muscles. It comes with 4 different heads that can be used in different areas of the body at different speeds. There’s no Bluetooth connectivity but most people won’t miss that, especially as there is an accompanying app to offer guidance and track your massage sessions manually.

Percussive therapy has a variety of benefits, helping to prevent body aches and pains, greatly reducing muscle tension in seconds, boosting mobility and range of motion, and increasing blood flow to the area to reduce soreness, tightness and pain,’ explains Dr Jason Wersland, chiropractor and Therabody founder.It has everything you’ll ever need from a massage gun, including a powerful motor that pulses at up to 3,000 PPM (percussions per minute), a tilted handle to help reach every area, and attachments that move smoothly over skin without ever catching.

It comes with four interchangeable heads for providing relief in different areas, including a flat head to target niggly spots such as the neck, ankles and calves, and a cone to get deep into your muscles and hit your pressure points. Pull out the attachment head currently in the gun, and push the chosen attachment firmly on to the gun. However, the HoMedics pro physio massage gun was our favourite because of its innovative hot and cold attachments, cellulite head and smooth operation.There are four routines to choose from on the device, but they recommend connecting to the user-friendly Therabody app for myriad personalised options that target specific aches and pains. They often come with different-sized attachments, or heads, to target specific areas of the body, and have a variety of speed settings, too. Different levels of percussion massagers stimulate the muscles in different capacities; higher rpms can be great for pre-exercise massage sessions, while lower rpms can be useful post events to aid relaxation. Over to Vic Paterson, a soft tissue therapist and co-founder of State 11 Soft Tissue Therapy, to explain how massage guns work in simple terms. This more economical HoMedics model has many of the benefits of the brand's high scoring massage gun – it’s lightweight, a doddle to use and hits the Goldilocks optimum when it comes to attachments (enough to cover all bases, but not so many that it feels gimmicky).

It should come with instructions for safe use, but, in short, don't turn it up to full and stick it on your neck! Like our winning HoMedics massager, this shiny new Pulseroll model boasts a heated head, with two temperature settings (45C or 55C) that deliver heat and percussive therapy to your tired, achy muscles. Our experts found it easy to operate and switch between the four speed settings thanks to the responsive, user-friendly buttons on the handle. If you need some guidance, there’s a handy user manual, which provides step-by-step routines for warm-up, mobility and recovery.

It proved extremely powerful and effective, gliding across skin without pulling for a relaxing massaging experience. Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. They were judged on how easy they were to control, the impact they had on sore muscles, their ability to move across skin and muscle smoothly, and the effectiveness of any interchangeable massage heads included.