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Massage Guns (and other vibrating treatment)

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I was fascinated by vibrating beds in hotel rooms when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. They were “fun” but puzzling: why was it a thing? Vibration is paradoxically both relaxing and/or stimulatory, but generally pleasant — it is a kind of massage, after all. But maybe it’s something a little more “magical” too. There are a few familiar types of common coarse vibrational therapies: A “massage gun” One of hundreds of similar products, advertised mainly as an aid to recovery from exercise & injury. Whole lotta shakin’ going on! These are all obviously flesh jiggling, physical vibration, and this article is mostly about those macro-scale vibrational therapies, especially massage guns. I will explain the possible biological and neurological effects, some which are intriguing, and especially why it feels so good; give some practical tips and product recommendations; and explore some painful conditions where vibration might be most useful, using frozen shoulder particularly as one of the best

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