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Where Not to Use a Massage Gun (and Where It Actually Helps)

Illustration of a person's front and back body outlines with color-coded zones. Green marks safe zones for a massage gun on the shoulders, arms, mid-back, lats, glutes, hamstrings, calves, and quads. Red marks the two zones to avoid: the back of the neck and the low back.

Quick answer. A massage gun works well as a short pre-training warm-up on freestanding limb muscles. There are two regions of the body where it does more harm than good, because sustained vibration on densely innervated, load-sharing tissue doesn’t release the muscle. It stuns it, and the area often flares worse the next day. By […]