Panasonic is truly the granddaddy of all modern massage recliners. The Panasonic EP3222 Real Pro Elite Massage Recliner is the first massage chair to be endorsed by the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and happens to be the first massage chair to use what is known as body scanning technology ( many massage chairs today use some form of body scanning technology to help create a personalized massage for the user).
When you sit in this chair and turn on the Body Scan technology, it adapts the massage to the shape and weight of your body. Detects areas of tension and stress to help maximize relief and relaxation. However, once the session has started, you can’t change the shoulder height if it’s too uncomfortable for you… but you can choose to adjust those features on a preset schedule.
This chair uses a full-body air pressure system, with 33 durable air bags that work together at the same time by inflating and deflating in specific patterns and variable speeds to make your tension and stress melt away in moments. With the air pressure system taking care of your back, shoulders, hips, thighs, and seat, calves, and feet, that’s a total of 614 square inches of total relaxation therapy. When you sit in the 3222, you really feel like you’re part of the meat.
Although this chair will recline to deeply melt away the stress and pain of your daily regimen, due to the nature of air pressure, air massage does not properly ‘stretch’ or pull the back. That will be more effective with the double roller heads also designed in this chair, to manually move the backrest and thus create a space between the discs. Therefore, this chair has been designed with the air pressure system for the main feature, along with the double or quad rollers that work the tense areas of the back, neck and shoulders, to accommodate people with problems. sensitive to touch and chronic pain. And because the airbags inflate and deflate, you can customize the intensity of the massage delivered to you.
Many people experience fatigue and tension due to their feet and calves and therefore feel more relaxed and refreshed if their feet and calves have also been properly massaged and stretched. The Air Bag system offers that to the wearer, contouring around each individual’s body type and foot arches, curving, compressing and kneading stress.
This calf and foot function work in tandem, so you can’t turn one off and experience the other. Your calves and feet will be massaged at the same time, or you can turn the system off so only your upper body, thighs, and seat will be massaged.
The Real Pro Elite takes the thinking out for you and makes your sessions easy with 5 preset programs to choose from with different techniques ranging from 4-14 minute options and an invigorating 5 minute session.
You can also customize body scan preferences and customization by saving your preferences to one of 3 memory programs. With the easy-to-use remote control using an LED display and voice guidance that prompts and instructs you, you virtually just have to sit down to experience relief from any kind of day you’ve had.
With the genuine leather fabric and quality design of the Panasonic chair, this chair is designed to last for a long time taking care of you. Most users experience over 1,000 hours of use from their Panasonic massage chairs before needing maintenance – that’s comparable to a 15-minute massage every day for 11 years!
