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It’s a hot topic for runners at the moment and it seems wherever you look there is an advert for massage guns. Should every runner have one?
your expert
Sports Injury Fix director Mike James, otherwise known as The Endurance Physio, has spent over 25 years working with runners from novice to Olympic level. He’s also an accomplished runner with over 300 marathons and ultra races to his name (sportsinjuryfix.com)
The current popularity of massage guns is undoubtedly helped by the very public use of them by professional athletes and high-profile individuals going viral on social media. The slow-motion videos of the skin rippling wonderfully underneath the gun, coupled with claims of what wonders they are doing to the tissues, have led many runners to jump on the bandwagon.
What do massage guns actually do?
When it comes to self-massage, it’s hard to not be sceptical and suspicious of the latest fad and trends. Many of these are simply reinventions of previous treatments wrapped up, rebranded, and repackaged to a new audience. The massage gun is something that could be said to tick these boxes.