The Fascia Gun is indeed more popular

On Nov 4, the 126th Canton Fair was successfully concluded in Guangzhou. During this Canton Fair on phase 3, we noticed there are growing number of customers visiting 10.2 & 11.2 hall where Health Care and Rehabilitation Equipment are exhibited including Massage Equipment, Physiotherapeutic Instruments and Fitness Equipment.

Among them especially the product called fascia gun is more popular at this fair, you can almost see it anywhere on any booth, when and why it become so popular? Before that let’s learn something as below:

How can we relieve muscle soreness after exercise?

To find the best solution, you need to know why the muscles are sore after exercise.

There are a large number of fascia in the human body. The fascia is mainly to reduce the friction between different muscles and help them to contract better.

During exercise, the muscles are innervated; whereas, after exercise, they become relaxed. However, nerves are excited, so muscles may continue to be tense and stiff.

Additionally, some intensive exercises or chronic fatigue due to the same posture cause minor injuries to muscles and fascia.

Moreover, during intensive exercises, the metabolism and the self-protection mechanism are likely to cause discomfort of muscles and fascia.

Some high-end or professional gyms provide an ultimate tool the Percussive Massage Gun for relaxation.

What Exactly Is a Fascia Gun or Massage Gun?

The fascia gun trend is a relatively new one in fitness. You’ve used foam rollers before, and vibrating foam rollers appeared on the market three or four years ago. The theory behind these foam rollers was that the vibrations confused something called the Golgi tendon response, which would help to relax tight muscles.

Then, two years ago, the Theragun took off, kicking off a wave of massage guns. Hyperice’s Hypervolt and several others followed.

The massage gun generally looks something like a power tool, and once it’s turned on, it whirs like one too (although recent models have quieted that). To use it, you simply aim it at your skin, about an inch away, and let it pulsate back and forth, relaxing muscles and promoting blood flow in much the same way a vibrating foam roller does. It’s easier to use than a foam roller though, and more natural.

In theory, massage guns also offer a chance to modulate pain. What about pain modulation? Well, the pain you feel typically manifests as a specific frequency. Healthy nerve impulses should react to pain in milliseconds, but at certain frequencies, your pain may not be able to keep up with that. So in theory, a massage gun vibrating at the right frequency may “trick” the nervous system into blocking pain. We call this the “pain gate theory”.

Meet the massage gun, the hot new trend that just may be landing in a gym near you. Over the last three years, more and more people have grown aware of the need to increase blood flow in muscles, whether you’re training or recovering. Various methods have grown popular to do that, with everything from foam rollers to vibration therapies to standard massage landing in gyms.

The massage gun inhabits this same space, and while it’s supported by limited research, the theory behind it is sound, and it has the potential to change the way you warm up and recover. A few years ago, percussive massage guns were popular among professional athletes.

Professional teams such as the American MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and professional athletes from European football club teams use muscle guns to relieve muscles.

But athletes aren't the only ones using this to keep their bodies in top form, also known as percussive therapy. If you train hard and are looking for an edge, a way to recover more quickly and get into your workouts more aggressively, this is a device you should consider.

How does percussive massage gun work?

A massage gun is a percussive massage gun for relieving muscles and fascia.

It uses the high-speed motor to spin the "massager head," which generates high-frequency vibration to ripple the muscles, reducing tension, relieving pain, promoting blood circulation, etc.

Through the vibration, the muscles and fascia relax, so muscle soreness, stiffness, fatigue can be relieved immediately, blood circulation will accelerate to improve the health of tissues.

After workouts, use it for 10 minutes, and you will feel the muscles over the whole body gradually relax. You will be refreshed in an instant, with the entire body at ease. Moreover, there will be no muscle soreness and discomfort the next day.

In short, it is very comfortable after use, anyone who would like to build muscles and get a quick relief from exercise can have a try on this tool.