Certainly if you have a travel or a vicious vertebra hernia that makes you suffer it is my duty to tell you that only a physician can help you and why not advise you (also) Weighted few shiatsu but if your pain is diffuse or related to osteoarthritis or other default posture, well believe me if you like but the relaxing Shiatsu chair (here HOSMEDICS brand) has enlightened my daily flexibility of unsuspected until then. Besides, since I recommended to all my family, amazing but true! I spend every day for half an hour on the couch when I get home from work. Does The effect is added every day seems; traffic around the spine is stressed almost like living in a massage, heat the quiet pain the benefits are very pleasant. Does this mean that we could do without real MASSAGE provided by "pro"? Not that I do not think so, a REAL massage (I insist) is a blessing for the body and health ... The Shiatsu chair it is an excellent relay for life, renewed pleasure every day. It amazes me that this is no known benefit.