Kali, look at all these massage gun heads. I know. When and how should we use them?
Well let's talk about that.
So before we get started, just know that there are some precautions of using
a massage gun. So always check with your doctor or therapist before you start using it. One of
the big ones is never use it on the front of your neck special where those carotid arteries are,
you know, on the back and the back of the upper back in the neck, that's okay,
but make sure you're not using it on the front. So today, I'm going to use the Mebak 3 massage gun to
talk about the massage gun heads. So as you can see, they have a lot to choose from your massage
gun might have some slightly different ones. But I'm just going to kind of show you the general
ones. And most of the time, they're all pretty similar. So the first one that you might see is
the fork. And so it's kind of fun, calling it the fork. But what's neat about the fork, as you can
see that there's the space in between here. And so the reason that is great for certain things like
your spine, or over bony area, like your ankle or your shoulder because the bone part goes in the
middle. Because if you've ever used a massage gun, and you're massaging on something, you don't want
to hit the bone because it's pretty uncomfortable. So you can see, just quickly on my ankle here,
I wouldn't want to go on the bone. But maybe I'd want to go in between are on each side here,
going in right there. Because if I was right on the boat,
you can see that's pretty uncomfortable. So the the fourth part makes it really nice because
then you're not hitting the bone specially on the spine. If you're working on the back,
sometimes it's really nice to have someone else do it for you. But you'd be just following along.
So the spine is in the middle, and you're getting those muscles on each side. So the fork is really
neat. Because you can do that and then miss the bony areas, so it's not quite as painful.
This one is the shovel, which is also kind of a fun one, you can see it's a
flat kind of area right here. And so I like this one a lot. When there's some scar tissue, you can
use it on the kind of the shoulder neck area, even the low back is recommended sometimes. But what is
kind of neat is when you do a scooping motion, so let's say I have kind of some some knots or some
against some scar tissue adhesions. If you've ever seen someone do the scraping with those tools,
this kind of works like that. And it's nice. And even though you can do it on maybe your shoulder
lower back, I'm going to show you on my arm here. So let's say where my my scar is right there,
there's some scar tissue. What's nice is with this, you can kind of do that motion,
so I hit the bone there. But if I'm going through, let me knock it up a little bit.
I'm going and I'm pushing those adhesions or that scar tissue, so I'm just kind of moving it along.
And if there were some bumps there, it would kind of help smooth it out, you're kind of shoveling
it through kind of getting that those adhesions out of the way. So that's the shovel for you. And
again, a lot of times those those trigger points are those knots along the neck there are in that
low back area, this is a good one to use for that. This one is just the the round or the or the ball,
I like to call it the ball, it is probably one of my favorites when I am using massage gun, this is
probably the one that I use it the most is kind of for the mainly the large muscles. So something
big like your quad or your calf, a really meaty area, I would say I like for that because it's
a little bit softer. But you can really kind of push through those larger muscle groups and
just kind of get into the area. And then you can see here, that vibration kind of motion there.
And so it's really nice, you could even do it on your forearm area you can see right here,
really to get that tissue loosened up. But this is usually a little bit more for those
larger muscle groups. And like I said, it's probably my favorite one that I like to use.
This is the cushion. And so Whoa. Let's try that again. So this is the cushion. And you
can see here, what I was trying to do was show you the little the little squish or the cushion
in there. And so this one is nice to use over joint areas if you want to use it on joints,
or a very tender spot. So typically, you wouldn't go right on the bony area. But this cushion allows
to kind of make sure that you're not having that painful bounce in there. So you know,
if I'm going over here on my wrist, you see it's not quite as much of a bounce on that bone. Or
if I'm trying to get maybe kind of the outside of my knee here where the bony area is that cushion
makes it so it's not that uncomfortable bounce in there. And so this one's really nice too, because
if you've got some tendons around a bony part, you know, even like your elbow, maybe see that
that's not uncomfortable. Whereas if I had one of the other massage heads where it was bumping a lot
that that might be really uncomfortable. So the cushion one is is really nice. I like this one a
lot. It gives that nice give to it. So you can get some of those areas that might be a little more
tender without having as much of that percussion on it. So then this one will these are slippery,
is called the bullet. And so it's a fun name. But that's kind of kind of what it looks like.
But this one is more for those trigger points. So let's say, you know, on my leg here, I have
a trigger point kind of on the outside of my leg here, and I really want to focus on that spot.
This is nice, because it's, it's right to the spot where you want it, you can push into it,
if you've got a trigger point there. And if you've had a trigger point, you know
that getting right on that spot really, really helps. A lot of times maybe that upper trap,
or even that Levator scap up in there, that trigger point, you can just kind of sit on it.
And it'll be really concentrated to that specific focal point and really helped kind of get that
trigger point out of there. So that bullet is a really nice one, because it really gets to
that spot there. So I like this one, this one is just called a flat. So you can see there,
it's kind of flat. But it's a different than the cushion because it's his firm is hard there. And
so the flat is really again, just for any body part. But again, since it's a little bit harder,
you would want to go over bony areas, but you can use it pretty much on any body part,
it works pretty nicely, you know, if you want to go on your arm, or you know, up into the back,
upper back here, or even into your thigh area, or the calf. So it's kind of a general universal
one. But since it is a little bit harder, it might be more for after you're out of that kind
of really tender spot. And you're just trying to get those muscles nice and loosened up. And then
the last one here is called the bump. And so you can see that it's got these little, little bumps
on it like that kind of like a massage almost. And it's the same, it can be used for all body parts,
but it's going to feel a little different than the flat because it has those bumps on it. So again,
it's nice to try because it's got that little bit of different texture on there. So you're just
going to feel things a little bit differently. But again, you can use that on any body part, a lot of
times I like it on the IT band here going up into the TFL. Because it's got that textured top part,
it makes it a little nicer, just kind of getting into that tissue right there. So this is a nice
one that you can use on any area as well. And so you can see that there's there's a lot of
nice options. Like I said, sometimes they're a little bit different depending on what massage
gun you like. And sometimes even though you might read the manual, and I'll say it's for this for
this for this, sometimes just try it and see how it feels because it's really the goal of this
is to make you feel better. So you know, if you really say Hey, I just like this one all the time,
I'm going to use this one for most things, I'm going to do it or if I've got trigger points,
I'm really going to use this bullet because it's really easy to get into that spot.
Or maybe the cushion even if you're not using an over a bony error just feels a lot better
than that's the one to use. But that's kind of the the variety of things and like I said, there
might be some different ones, but most of them you're going to probably see this one, for sure.
And it's great kind of all over the body for those large muscle groups. So there you have it, that
was when and how to use the massage gun heads. If you're interested in purchasing the Mebak
3 click on the link up there. And remember, be safe, have fun, and I hope you feel better soon.