Healthcare group Body Friend launched a massage chair product by applying a function of ‘brain massage’ that helps brain’s rest, recovery from fatigue and activation.

In a meeting ‘Brain Massage – a New Solution in the Era of Brain Fatigue’ held in Four Seasons Hotel, Jongno-gu, Seoul on October 30th, Body Friend revealed “Brain massage stimulates tactile and auditory senses simultaneously to raise the cognitive functions, which allows one to feel the comfort in mind. This brain massage technology is a technology of new concept that has never been thought of or developed by any healthcare company so far.”

  
Brain massage is a massage program that enhances concentration and memory through relieving mental fatigue. It uses physical massage that can awaken brain, and binaural beats that lead to the rest. In the binaural beat program, each of the left and right ears of a person hears a different sound with a different frequency and then the brain recognizes the third sound, which guides the person to the rest or helps increasing cognitive functions. 

 

According to Body Friend, medical efficacy of brain massage has been demonstrated. Body Friend R&D Center conducted clinical studies with 25 adults at the age of 20 – 25 years, which showed that the rest with brain massage reduced the degree of fatigue much more significantly than the rest with massage on a general massage chair or general rest without using massage chairs.

 

In the test of concentration, the rest with brain massage showed concentration that was more persistent. In the test of verbal and non-verbal memory, non-verbal long-term memory such as facial images improved in both users of brain massage and a general massage chair while verbal memory improved only in users of brain massage.

 

Park Sang-Hyeon, CEO of Body Friend, said in the discussion “Brain massage is a solution to the brain fatigue accumulated in this hyper-competitive world”, and added, “We will export it worldwide by taking the physique and language into consideration.”

Body Friend said brain massage has been patented and its research results have been published in a SCI-indexed journal, which showed the excellence of brain massage.

The company revealed that a research paper titled ‘The effects on mental fatigue and the cognitive function of mechanical massage and binaural beats (brain massage) provided by massage chairs’ has been recently published in Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, a SCI-indexed journal in the medical field.

 

‘SCI (Science Citation Index)’ is a list of international journals recognized for academic value and influence, which has been reviewed and recognized by experts among the scientific and medical journals published all over the world.

 

The publication of the research on brain massage in the SCI-indexed journal means that research achievements and their authority have been recognized worldwide.

 

Cho Soohyun (Orthopedic Specialist), head of Body Friend Medical R&D Center, said, "the publication of the brain massage research paper in the SCI-indexed journal means that academic world also acknowledged that the use of our healthcare product not only promotes physical health, but also helps to improve cognition, such as concentration and memory".

 

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