Many people buy massage guns in hopes of relieving their aching back pains. Whether this is upper back or lower back, it can be difficult to reach these areas with the desired amount of pressure if you live alone. Below we offer 4 options to help make using a massage gun on your back, when you’re by yourself, easier.
How To Hold Your Massage Gun
The grip can often time be one of the easiest options to help get a better angle at your back. When gripping your device, you’ll want to ensure you are gripping it in a way that allows you to be able to pull the device toward your body. If you have a Theragun or triangle shaped device, there are 4 grips that you can utilize, but we’ll focus on one specifically. If you have a “t” shaped device, there is also only one particular grip we recommend.
Standard Grip
Base Grip
Reverse Grip
False Grip
The “False Grip” is the grip you’ll want to use when massaging your lower back. This allows you the best leverage to be able to pull your massage device toward your body. This grip is also fantastic for getting your upper back and shoulder area as allows a similar leverage angle to pull the device into your body.
Use Your Couch To Massage Your Back
If after trying to adjust your grip, you still feel like you can’t get the amount of pressure you want onto your back by yourself, consider other items in your house that you might be able to prop your massage gun up on or “clamp” it into. The best examples we found were to place our massager between two couch cushions or place it between our box spring and our mattress. Once the device is in place, you simply sit on the ground and maneuver your back around the stationary massage gun. The more solidly placed you massage gun is, the more pressure you will be able to apply when pushing against it.
TimTam Universal Massager Mount
Certainly, even a couch cushion or mattress might not be strong enough to hold your massage gun or it might not be ideal for the treatment area you’re wishing to target. For those who seriously need to use their percussion massager on their back, consider purchasing a TimTam Universal Power Massager Mount. This tool is essentially a vise grip or clamp for your massage gun. This tool, while made by TimTam, can hold any massage gun on the market, including Hypervolt and Theragun.
While this is a great and solid option, there are a few downsides. The first is the price as it will cost you almost $100. The second is that it is explicitly designed to mount onto a squat rack. It comes with a threaded screw that goes through the holes on the rack and allows you to affix the mount to the steel post. Alternatively, it would work on any post or pole that has a hole drilled through it.
Mantis Massage Gun Mount
The last option is very similar to the Universal Mount listed above, but this option comes in at a much friendlier price point. The Mantis Mount is designed to mount nearly anywhere. It is a plastic mount that comes with a thin foam padding on the back. The mount is shaped to fit around a round chain link fence post, a square post, or even a door frame. Equipped with two straps, this mount is universal to any massager and can fit around any post or pole that the straps will fit around.
When mounting on a door frame, you simply need to wrap the strap around something soft-sided such as a sock and then close the door. This allows the strap to have enough tension to hold it’s weight with a massage gun. Best Massage Tech readers can get a 10% discount at checkout with promo code BMT at mantismount.com.
See all these tips in action below: