There have been many research studies verifying the benefits of massage therapy for people who use it. However, until recently, there had never been a study verifying the efficacy of massage chairs and their impact on a user’s health.

In 2018, I was contacted by Dr. Michael Olden, a PhD who runs the Stress Center at Weber State University here in Utah. He was interested in adding massage chairs to his stress clinic. We were happy to help and provided several massage chairs for his facility.

That initial communication eventually led to a lunch meeting where Dr. Olden and I discussed the benefits of conducting a formal study on massage chairs to prove their effectiveness. At that time, there had been no prior studies verifying whether massage chairs actually delivered the benefits they claimed.

Dr. Olden took that idea and ran with it. The result was a comprehensive research effort that ultimately produced three published studies. In total, over 17,000 subjects were evaluated. The study measured blood pressure, pulse rate, perceived stress, and perceived pain.

According to Dr. Olden, the results were statistically significant, meaning they were strong enough to be considered meaningful and reliable. In fact, the findings were compelling enough to show that massage chairs can provide benefits comparable to traditional massage therapy.

If you’d like to learn more, you can visit our website at massagechairrelief.com, where we discuss these studies in greater detail and provide links to the published research so you can review them yourself.

I hope you found this video helpful. I’m Dr. Alan Weidner from Massage Chair Relief, and I’ll see you in the next video. Bye-bye.