Promoting flexibility, relief from fatigue, and/or healing from injury. When heat therapy is paired with massage and applied to muscle tissue, it increases blood flow. Heated massage chairs also stimulate the sensory receptors in your skin.  Decreasing pain signals sent from the affected area to your brain.  Heat can help you relax and feel cozy during the winter months, and those psychological benefits matter.

The addition of infrared heat makes your massage significantly more effective by helping your muscles relax. The mechanical action of massage stimulates circulation. Your body also generates heat as blood moves toward the surface of the skin with a well-choreographed heated massage session.  This is a virtuous circle: infrared heat provided by your massage chairs enhances the effects of the natural heat that you feel on the surface of your skin.

The best massage chair brands utilize infrared heat elements, heated mechanical rollers, and ceramic arm, hand & foot heaters.

Depending on the chair’s manufacturer and model, heated massage chairs can apply infrared heat to the low back, seat, knee, calf, feet, and even the hands and fingers.  In the luxury category, you find heated massage chairs that deliver full-body heat.  Many luxury massage chairs blend chair heat with other relaxing elements, such as zero-gravity reclining to maximize the benefits experienced by the user.

Penetrating warmth can help elicit the deepest relaxation and lasting sense of rejuvenation and calm.  So let the delicious blend of warmth and massage erase your cares for a few minutes every day.  All of the massage chairs you see on this page are heated massage chairs.