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Welcome from Graeme

Alongside our clinical experience, we've reviewed extensive research into the effects of therapeutic vibration massage. This has allowed us to provide you with the most effective equipment, plus the best evidence-based uses and protocols. Please note that trial results show that genuine vibration massagers are much safer and more effective than percussion massagers (massage guns).

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Practitioner guides & clinical summaries

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Solving the "too hard basket" issues for chronic patients and opening new opportunities

Chronic musculoskeletal conditions

Chronic soft tissue conditions require repeated applications of therapy over a long period of time. This is often impossible to provide or afford within standard clinic appointments. Historically, clinicians have had to place these cases in the "too hard basket", as the only alternative—regular visits to a massage therapist—is frequently too expensive and inconvenient for patients to maintain.

By delivering professional standard therapy, while being economical and easy to use, DrGraeme massagers allow you to prescribe genuine, supplementary therapeutic soft tissue therapy for home use, under your professional guidance.

New opportunities

The ability to prescribe practically unlimited quality home massage has opened up further opportunities. Examples include:

Health and wellbeing

Clinical trials have shown massage to have health benefits such as reducing blood pressure, improving sleep, and enhancing psychological states. However, these trials required very frequent, regular massages. This becomes convenient and affordable with prescribed self-massage.

Cellulite reduction

Trials have shown that massage can reduce cellulite by increasing circulation. However, the frequency and number of applications required make professional treatment impractical unless effective home treatment is used.

Sports and exercise

Massage therapy has a host of uses in the sports and exercise field, such as warming up, improving performance, preventing injuries, aiding post-exercise recovery, and rehabilitating existing injuries. Again, these benefits are limited by the cost and lack of availability of professional therapists. Massage guns and foam rollers are widely marketed as solutions, but their effectiveness is mediocre at best, and certainly nothing like the scientifically proven benefits of genuine vibration massage.

The Clinical Benefits

  • Achieve better outcomes: Patients finally receive the consistent, high-quality soft tissue therapy they actually need.
  • Simplify chronic cases: Makes managing complex, long-term conditions significantly easier and more effective.
  • Extend your care: Allows you to provide quality care in areas previously limited.

Practitioner pricing, orders and samples

We offer generous practitioner pricing for clinic use and for supplying patients. Please contact us directly to request our current price list, discuss your requirements, or inquire about a sample unit for your clinic.

Australia and New Zealand

Dispatched from our Melbourne warehouse. Simply phone us or email us your requirements.

The UK and Europe

Dispatched from our UK and European warehouses. We have a dedicated practitioner ordering portal. Email us and we will send you the exclusive access link.

Other countries

We dispatch to most other countries globally (excluding the USA- insurance requirement). Please email us your location and we will make the arrangements.

Students

We strongly support the next generation of health professionals. If you are a current student, please visit our dedicated student page for information on special student pricing and resources.

Vibration vs. Percussion Massagers

You will find genuine vibration massager easier to use, safer, and significantly more effective than a percussion massager (massage gun). The key issues are:

  • It is the vibrations that penetrate and have the therapeutic effects.
  • mechanically assisted "pummeling" has not been shown to give any significant benefits, while creates the potential to cause damage or injury.

As you can see from this diagram genuine vibration massagers deliver large amounts of therapeutic vibrations, while massage guns use vibrations to physically pummel, and the small amount of incidental vibration they deliver is usually at the wrong frequency to have therapeutic effects.

Vibration vs percussion vs conventional

Despite not being designed to efficiently deliver therapeutic vibrations, marketers of percussion massagers use the science of vibration to justify their huge claims. In furtherance of this dubious "scientific trials" have been done to support massage gun sales. These use deception such as modifying massage guns to deliver more vibration and less percussion, but still calling the therapy "percussion". A review of approximately 30 clinical trials that looked at what was actually done rather than the headlines clearly showed that genuine vibration therapy delivers vastly superior results for soft tissue conditions.

Research Based Information


Should I get a percussion massager, or a vibration massager

You will find a well designed vibration massager easier to use, safer, and will do a much better job. This is because the scientific... Read Article  

The sports and exercise guide to vibration massage

Most professional athletes and sports clubs make heavy use of massage type treatments. The ability to do self massage using a hand held... Read Article  

Trigger point basics: what they are, what they do, and how to treat them

Trigger points are those tender lumps in your muscles therapists find. They are arguably the biggest cause of musculoskeletal pain such... Read Article  

Warm-ups: your practical guide to reducing injuries, increasing performance and reducing post exercise soreness

If you play sport or workout a good warm-up will help prepare your muscles: increasing your performance, decreasing your risk of injury,... Read Article  

The practical, science based guide to post exercise recovery

To become fitter, stronger and faster your need to push your body to create the microscopic damage that stimulates improvement. That... Read Article  

How to use a hand held massager

Using a hand held massager is simple. You place the vibrating head on the muscle, making good contact, and allow the vibrations to... Read Article  

How to massage fibromyalgia: practical science based advice

Massage can give great relief for fibromyalgia, but while some massages work well others don’t, and there is always the potential for the... Read Article  

Functional rehabilitation

As practitioners we are continually dealing with dysfunctional musculoskeletal systems. Typically dysfunction develops and is perpetuated... Read Article  

Does massage help athletic or sports performance: with practical advice

Professional sports clubs have long used massage as a way to help their athletes, and more recently various self massage options have... Read Article  



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