Can you use a massage chair for a herniated disc in the lumbar spine

Massage chairs can be used by patients with lumbar disc herniation, but not in the acute stage. Lumbar disc herniation patients have lumbar muscle stiffness and lumbar pain, and can use massage chair to loosen muscles and relieve pain. At the same time, the massage chair also has a heating function, can improve muscle tension, spasm, can accelerate lumbar blood circulation, promote the absorption of inflammatory reaction around the lumbar intervertebral disc, lumbar intervertebral disc herniation recovery is extremely favorable. Can not use massage chair in the acute period of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation attack, mainly due to the attack of the acute period of nerve edema is more serious, at this time the use of massage chair massage will stimulate the nerves, caused by the aggravation of neurological symptoms, but is not conducive to the patient’s recovery. Therefore, the use of massage chairs to treat patients after the acute period, is conducive to the improvement of lumbar disc herniation symptoms.