What about features you want from your Massage Recliner Chair? Well the features you require will depend upon the type of massage you want. What’s most important to you? Are you looking for Shiatsu massage? Maybe you need massage to improve blood circulation, or for muscle repair therapy?
Which areas of your body are you looking to relax, or to tone ?

For instance, if you are looking for back massage, the combination kneading and tapping feature is a necessity, and all top chairs will provide this, however, the positioning of the lower back is critical, and perhaps an air massage in the seat to relax the lower back is of more benefit. When comparing top of the range chairs, only the Human Touch HT-5320 offers this facility. If you are looking for a range of automatic programs, to allow the Massage Recliner Chair to manage the process, then the Human Touch HT-5320 only provides 3 auto programs, whereas the Sanyo HEC-DR 7700 offers a massive 10! Automatic programs allow you to press a single button that sends the massage chair into a pre programmed routine. Automatic programs may concentrate on either a specific area of massage or a single type of massage. It is best to select a chair with a number of automatic programs, as well as chairs that have automatic programs that target specific regions

If leg massage, and blood circulation is an important factor for you, its hard to overlook the fact that neither the Sanyo HEC-DR 7700 or the Panasonic EP1272 offer mechanical lower leg massage. Leg massages can be delivered either by inflatable air bags or from kneading mechanical rollers and paddles. Chairs that use mechanical massage are more effective and offer more therapeutic benefits than chairs that use air bags. Another benefit to all mechanical Massage Recliner Chairs is that they do not contain noisy air compressors. Air compressors ad the majority of the noise in massage recliner chairs that use air bags.

Reclining massage chairs need motors to ease the recline gently, often continuing massage during the recline process. So how easy is it to recline? Well, you don’t want to have to manually recline a heavy chair, so the easiest is the single button recline. One touch recline allows the chair to move to its fully reclined position automatically with a click of a button. Rather than having to depress the controls until the chair is fully reclined, one push can recline the chair all the way back. Similarly, One touch return allows the chair to move to its full upright position automatically with a touch of a button. Rather than having to depress the controls until the chair is fully upright, one push can return the chair to its original position