Hello, I’m Dr. Alan Weidner from Therapeutic massage Chair Reduction, and at this time is our bi-weekly therapeutic massage chair trade replace for Monday, January twenty second, 2024. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of me at this time. As I discussed in my final broadcast, I used to be planning on attending the Shopper Electronics Present in Las Vegas, which I did, and we’ll speak about that in a second. Subsequent week I’m going to be attending the Las Vegas Furnishings Market on the World… I can’t keep in mind what they name it. It’s an enormous facility with three monolithic buildings simply stuffed with furnishings all through.
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It’s a spot the place distributors and producers come to indicate their wares and to seek out folks to promote their merchandise for them; retailers, and native distributors. So, it’s at all times enjoyable to go there. I take pleasure in going to that. CES, which is what I used to be at simply over every week in the past was implausible. And what they’ve finished is that they’ve grouped all of the therapeutic massage chairs, a lot of the therapeutic massage chair firms shut collectively, so it was very simple for me to seek out them and to go to with them. And I’ll inform you, I began off by going to Human Contact®, and so they have a pleasant huge sales space proper within the opening of the middle corridor on the conference middle in Las Vegas.
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And so they had the brand new Tremendous Novo 2.0 and the Tremendous Novo X. Now, the two.0 is out already. And we’ve talked somewhat bit about that. There are some refined variations between the two.0 and the common Tremendous Novo. And people modifications embrace somewhat bit totally different curler monitor. They name it an Intelli Monitor 3D Superior SL Curler Monitor. Now the unique Tremendous Novo remains to be out there. It’s not being discontinued. With that chair, it doesn’t have an auto-scan system, so you’ll be able to set the peak of the rollers to your personal backbone, which is form of neat as a result of you’ll be able to change it at any time throughout the course of your therapeutic massage.
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Nicely, they’ve additionally added now a shoulder reminiscence detection function. So, whoever the final particular person was that sat within the chair, the chair will keep in mind the place you set that, shoulder top, and so they’ll recreate that to your subsequent go to on the chair. Additionally, the Tremendous Novo 2.0 goes to have an App for Android and Apple so you’ll be able to function the chair out of your cellphone. The previous or the present supernova has an Alexa function. There’s a bridge system between the voice response and the chair that you should utilize to say, , Alexa, do that, Alexa, try this.
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And so now this one has simply an app on the cellphone. It additionally has a USB port which the opposite one had, however it additionally has wi-fi charging to your system. And it’s somewhat bit lighter chair. I’m going to speak concerning the Tremendous Novo X; which is the heavier chair. But it surely’s about the identical weight, and a lot of the remainder of the options are fairly near the identical. And that chair is out now. So, if you would like the Tremendous Novo or the Tremendous Novo 2.0, they’re each out there available in the market now. The two.0 is $1,000 extra, so its listing value is $10,999. Now, the Tremendous Novo X is their revolutionary new chair, and I had a video filmed of me within the chair with, Victoria Lladoc, who’s Human Contact’s® director of selling, going over the options of the chair.
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And it was fascinating to sit down in it. It’s a robust chair. It’s acquired a break up monitor function so it’s going to have the ability to offer you a stronger stretch. It has calf rollers and calf kneading on the airbags, which will provide you with a stronger calf and foot therapeutic massage. Different options of that chair are the facet panels of the chair, the panels on the armrests. By the way in which, these armrests go up. So, the OHCO M.8 opened up. The Luraco i9 chair has sliding armrests that come again like sliding doorways. And this one has armrests that come up. So there are three totally different variations of armrests opening to permit folks to enter the chair from the facet.
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And for those who have fairly intense again ache, which I’ve had prior to now, I understand how tough it’s to mobilize, particularly once you’re making an attempt to get right into a therapeutic massage chair. It makes it very simple to entry the chair. It’s similar to getting right into a automotive. Or for individuals who are simply aged and it’s arduous. I’ve seen some people who find themselves fairly aged attempt to get into a daily therapeutic massage chair and it may be very bothersome. You’re making an attempt to barter backward falling into the seat of the chair in an ordinary therapeutic massage chair. These newer chairs which have armrests that transfer out of the way in which, enable folks to aged folks to come back in by way of the facet, like getting right into a automotive, so it makes it simpler to get in.
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That chair can be 369 lbs., so it’s about, 5 lbs. heavier than the Tremendous Novo. And I used to be going to say concerning the panels on the armrests; the panels are interchangeable for various colours. So, you’ve acquired a pad set that may be a distinct shade. And the panels on the facet of the armrest could be a totally different shade. So, the fascinating factor about that’s, in the event you ever wish to change the look of your room that you’ve got the chair, perhaps change the colour from, one theme to a different theme, you’ll be able to change the armrest panels and the pads of the chair to match the brand new decorum.
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For instance, the bottom is black throughout the board. On all of the Tremendous Novo X chairs, the bottom is black shade. However the pad set might be black, espresso which is a really darkish brown, cream grey, or tan shade. And the door panels might be black, espresso, cream, grey, tan, pink, grey metallic, or woodgrain design shade. So, they’ve actually come a great distance in accommodating the inside inside decorator in us all. And I personally don’t care a lot about colours and stuff like that. It issues to me that they match. However matching it decorum, if I’ve a black chair in simply white a white-themed room, it doesn’t trouble me as a lot, however my spouse would undoubtedly have a bone to select with, selecting the flawed shade.
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Anyway, there’s a number of flexibility with this chair. Additionally, it has what they name the multidimensional twin sink curler monitor. They name it a flex monitor, which is mainly a break up monitor. They’ve simply acquired their very own title for it, their very own vernacular. I advised you it has the calf rollers. It has the kneading. They name it orbital movement, however it’s kneading or oscillating calf airbags. It has undoubtedly a stronger stretch than the opposite Tremendous Novo chairs have. It has the final used reminiscence shoulder detection function that I talked about with the Tremendous Novo 2.0.
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And it additionally has JBL audio system as a substitute of the Altec Lansing audio system within the authentic Tremendous Novo. And what? Altec Lansing, and JBL, are each great-quality audio system. No different therapeutic massage chair that I’m conscious of, boasts brand-name audio tools as a part of their therapeutic massage chair Bluetooth music system. So, that’s fairly cool. Additionally, the seat dimensions are one inch wider on the X, versus the two.0 and the common Tremendous Novo. So, you bought somewhat bit extra width, not as a lot depth. I believe it’s about an inch much less in-depth. Truly, it’s a few inches much less in-depth, so that you don’t slide again fairly as far within the chair once you sit in it.
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And I’m unsure, I can’t keep in mind after I sat on it, however it might facilitate the rollers going somewhat bit additional down into your calves as a result of the seat strikes again somewhat bit. I don’t know. I can’t keep in mind, so I’m simply blowing smoke now. Anyway, these are the main variations. And the pricing on that chair relies on what pad set and what panels you get. For instance, the pad units, the grey and the tan are leather-based, whereas the black, the espresso brown, and the cream are artificial leather-based, what they name mushy disguise. Additionally, the grey metallic and the wooden grain on the panels are vinyl versus a mushy disguise for the opposite colours.
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So, there’s a, I consider, $1,000 distinction in pricing. So, the chair can vary anyplace from 14,999, with the chair with one of many mushy disguise pads and one of many mushy disguise door panels. However it might additionally enhance $1,000 for a leather-based pad or $1,000 for the grey metallic or wooden grain vinyl. So, the value of the chair fluctuates from 14,999 as much as 16,999, relying on the options that you just get; these accent options for the armrests and the pads. I hope that’s clear. I hope I haven’t overtalked that. Additionally, different new fashions which can be popping out, the SYNCA Wellness.
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As I’ve defined prior to now, SYNCA Wellness is a part of the dad or mum firm Johnson Wellness Tech. Johnson Wellness Tech bought, I consider it’s known as Mount Fuji Manufacturing facility in Japan, which created the Fujiiryoki chairs prior to now. However the Fujiiryoki chairs prior to now weren’t distributed in the USA. very effectively. And now they’re being distributed by SYNCA Wellness and Johnson Wellness Tech, which is the dad or mum firm of the manufacturing facility. And so, they’re going to be introducing a complete new line of chairs, starting with three chairs, below Fujiiryoki title model.
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And people are Japanese-made chairs. And I used to be speaking to Nicholas Beas, who’s the man that runs the US operation for the therapeutic massage chairs and is a really educated man. I actually take pleasure in speaking to him. And he’s going to be one in every of our company on our stay stream, I consider, in March. And he’s going to be speaking about three new chairs from Fujiiryoki, and a few very fascinating stuff popping out of that manufacturing facility that I’ve not seen earlier than by way of aesthetics, by way of making an attempt to make it feel and look extra like a chunk of furnishings. The highest chair may have one thing alongside these strains after which two different chairs beneath that.
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After which there are two extra Chinese language-made chairs popping out for SYNCA Wellness. So, that they had quite a bit to announce at CES, and I’m enthusiastic about that. I’m going to be flying right down to Southern California on the finish of February to take a look at the chairs. Hopefully, the chairs can be in by then, after which we’ll talk about it stay on our stay stream within the first a part of March. So, very thrilling developments there. However he didn’t have a lot to indicate me but. Plenty of it’s fairly secret. However I’m wanting ahead to seeing what they get. And he thinks that they’ll have a few fashions after I come down to go to on the finish of February.
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And in order that’s for Fujiiryoki. It’s a weirdly spelled title. It’s F-U-J-I-I-R-Y-O-Ok-I. And naturally, SYNCA. It’s all the identical firm, totally different manufacturers. SYNCA additionally has the Interior Steadiness line of chairs as effectively. In order that’ll be three totally different manufacturers for that firm. And talking of the stay stream, Kristy Kim, the proprietor of True Therapeutic massage Shares, which is a model that we’ve been carrying for a few years now; we had her on. They’re primarily based in Georgia, and so they have some good chairs. We’ve the Tru Eclipse Plus and the Tru Symphony Chair. And in my Utah retailer, we’ve got the Tru Iconic chair, which is somewhat bit cheaper price level.
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The brand new Eclipse is model new. It was the unique Eclipse that we’ve got in our showrooms, then they upgraded it to the Tru Eclipse 4D Plus. And that chair now comes with a three-year labor, and five-year components guarantee, as does the Tru Symphony. The Iconic has a one-year labor, and three-year components, which was their earlier guarantee for all their chairs. However due to the improved high quality of the chairs from the manufacturing facility, they’re going to they’re going to bump up the manufacturing facility guarantee to 3 and 5. So, that’s fairly cool. And that’s on their new Eclipse 40 Plus and their Symphony fashions.
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If you wish to go full 5 years of components and labor, it’ll be $350. And that’s on both a manufacturing facility guarantee, whether or not it’s the three-five or the one-three. They are going to have an prolonged guarantee of 5 years complete. So, on the Eclipse and the Symphony, it’ll add two years of labor as a result of the components are already 5 years. On the Iconic, it is going to add 4 years of labor and two extra years of components. In fact, we’ve got a lifetime labor guarantee. So, that prolonged guarantee for the Eclipse you don’t actually need as a result of we’re going to be supplying you with a lifetime labor guarantee anyway. And you may see that stay stream.
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It’s on our YouTube channel. I posted it final week after our time collectively. And it was undoubtedly nice speaking to Kristy. It’s at all times good to speak to folks from the trade, however it’s additionally good to speak to somebody who’s bringing new chairs to the market. And he or she stored saying, “Service over gross sales. Service over gross sales.” Which is our motto as effectively. After-sales assist is much extra essential than pre-sale assist. I forgot to say they’re bringing in a break up monitor chair known as The Crown. That may in all probability not be right here till subsequent quarter, however we’ll maintain you up to date on that.
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And I don’t know the pricing on it or something like that, however that can have a break up monitor. I believe it’s a quad curler on the underside, and two rollers on the highest. And I consider that’s coming from a distinct manufacturing facility from the Infiniti, Daiwa, Human Contact® chairs, which all come from the identical manufacturing facility. So, it’ll be fascinating to see how that how that chair is. And we’re excited to see it. Additionally, going again to new fashions, Daiwa has a brand new Supreme Hybrid X. And I sat in that chair after I was at CES. And what’s going to differentiate it from the present hybrid is it has the identical colours, the identical physique, identical curler mechanism, however what it’s going to have is the Ottoman will lengthen out somewhat bit additional.
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So, for long-legged folks, it’ll exit somewhat bit additional. And that’s good. By the way in which, if in case you have lengthy legs, you wish to purchase a chair and you like the chair and the legs simply don’t exit so far as you’d like them to, lengthen them out so far as you’ll be able to after which drop the Ottoman down. And that’s what we’ve at all times advised folks to do. And it does work. The issue with the shortened quick Ottoman is that your knees stick up larger, proper? And in case your knees are sticking up larger, which means your calves aren’t buried into the calf wells and also you’re not going to get massaged successfully there.
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And in addition, it signifies that your thighs is perhaps arising off the seat somewhat bit. So, drop the Ottoman down and it’ll convey your knees down, it’ll convey your calves absolutely into the calf wells and it’ll convey the again of your thighs down flush onto the chair seat. Nicely, when you could have an extended foot extension on the Ottoman, effectively, you then don’t have to fret about that as a lot except your legs are actually lengthy. And a few folks have actually lengthy legs. That’s one of many explanation why the Luraco says they will deal with somebody as much as 6’10”. It’s not simply because the chair again will go as much as their neck; it’s as a result of their legs lengthen up to now that, it might deal with somebody who’s acquired the legs of an individual who’s as much as 6’10”.
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Anyway, that’s the new mannequin from Daiwa. I additionally went to the Physique Pal sales space. I didn’t sit in any of the chairs, however their chairs come from the identical manufacturing facility as Daiwa, Infinity, Human Contact®, and a number of the Osaki chairs. And so they have an fascinating chair that has legs that go up and down, unbiased of one another. And I’ve by no means seen that earlier than. I haven’t sat on it. I don’t know if it’s a gimmick. I don’t know if it’s legit. However we’re going to be visiting. After I go to Southern California in February to go to with Nicholas at SYNCA, I’m going to even be dropping by Physique Pal.
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They’d like us to hold their chairs, however their enterprise mannequin for the US market could be very totally different. Physique Pal, in case you didn’t know, is the primary therapeutic massage chair retailer in Asia. However in the USA, it’s been somewhat gradual relative to different firms like Infinity, Osaki, Human Contact®, and Daiwa as a result of they’ve a really totally different distribution mannequin. Anyway, they want to have extra retailers, however lots of people are afraid of leaping into, their enterprise mannequin, which is once more totally different from what we’re accustomed to. However anyway, I’m going to be visiting with them on the finish of February as effectively. I hope to. That’s the plan.
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After which I may give you extra details about that. I simply wish to say once we speak about new fashions … And there have and I don’t know in the event you keep in mind this just a few weeks in the past in both my e-newsletter or in my therapeutic massage chair trade replace, I stated there will not be actually quite a lot of new chairs popping out. I knew concerning the new Tremendous Novo chair, however then I went there at CES and it was like, bang! Okay, Diawa is popping out with a brand new mannequin. Bang! SYNCA is popping out with 5 new, or two and three for Fujiiryoki. So, I felt like, Holy cow! I’m somewhat behind the scenes or behind the instances on these new fashions popping out.
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However I’ll inform you, I name it the glitch stage when a brand new chair comes out. And we see this with just about each new mannequin that involves market. We name it the glitch stage. At first of a brand new mannequin, the manufacturing facility and the distributors are understanding glitches within the chair. And the way do they discover out if there are these glitches? Nicely, the testing of actual clients who purchase the chairs after which have an issue with it after which talk with the therapeutic massage chair firm or their retailer and say, “Hey, this chair’s acquired an issue.” After which the therapeutic massage chair firm, the corporate that imported the chairs or had them made abroad will contact the manufacturing facility and say, “Hey, we’re getting a recurrent drawback with this, this and this and this glitch.”
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And it’s the glitch stage. They’re going to repair it. However some persons are turned off in the event that they get a brand-new chair and it’s acquired a glitch proper off the bat though it’ll get fastened. However there are some people who simply don’t like that and so they return the chairs. And elevated returns leads to elevated prices, and elevated faulty chairs again on the distributor. No person likes a chair that has glitches, however within the early phases, you’ll see that. So, persons are saying to me, “Hey, when can I come up with this mannequin? When can I come up with this mannequin?”
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And I normally say, “Nicely, , the chairs popping out in such and such a month, however perhaps get give it a few months earlier than you decide to it to be sure that there aren’t issues that the manufacturing facility didn’t discover or flush out throughout their testing. Or if the distributor of the chair, like Human Contact®, SYNCA, or Daiwa finds out that there are some points with the chair that have been by no means found or flushed out earlier. It’s form of good to get that out of the way in which so that you don’t have to fret about being one of many guinea pigs if you’ll.”
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And guinea pigs, perhaps that sounds dangerous, however you form of really feel such as you’re on a brand-new chai as a result of that’s thrilling. It’s like, “I’m the primary one to get this chair or one of many very first folks to get this chair.” However you might also be one of many first folks to have an issue with the chair, too. Simply pay attention to the glitch stage on new chairs. The one time once you may not see that occur as a lot is that if it’s a chair that has been repurposed or rebranded below one other firm title. For instance, quite a lot of these authentic break up monitor chairs, those that Daiwa and Infinity had have been mainly from one manufacturing facility.
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And so, the curler expertise, for essentially the most half, was simply replicated, perhaps with some tweaks for every totally different firm so it makes it somewhat bit totally different. Possibly the chair physique has some totally different options. Possibly the peripheral options have been modified or totally different. However the expertise of the curler monitor is basically the identical. Nicely, when the primary firm that got here out with them, Daiwa got here out with them with the supreme hybrid, a minimum of within the US market, they in all probability needed to iron out just a few of these glitches. Nicely, then Infinity got here out, with their Circadian and Luminary, and perhaps they have been in a position to keep away from a few of these issues as a result of the manufacturing facility fastened them on the pioneer of the retail distribution, which was Daiwa, a minimum of for us in the USA.
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So, there are some exceptions to that rule. But when it’s a brand-new expertise that we’ve by no means seen earlier than, form of like Luraco chairs, perhaps like these new Fujiiryoki chairs, these are all model new chairs. Nicely, with Luraco, their authentic i9 was brand-new expertise. Their i9 Max, which was an improve is the glitch-free mannequin as a result of they fastened all of the glitches with the i9 after which launched the i9 Max with another options, which made it even a good higher chair. So, you’ll see these items, occur with new fashions. And in the event you’re not afraid of perhaps being one of many guinea pigs on a brand-new chair and seeing that your chair might need a glitch. However it is going to get fastened. They at all times repair it.
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And if they will’t, they’ll change it. So, you’re at all times going to be okay. However, in the event you’re not afraid of that, effectively, then all the pieces I simply stated is just about a moot level. Anyway, I simply needed to inform you about what we name the glitch stage. Lastly, there will not be many gross sales happening proper now. After, the vacations, December, Black Friday by way of New Yr’s, it’s a reasonably busy time with gross sales. However, as of the fifteenth of January, this month, the gross sales have just about knocked off. The one firm proper now that we have been emailed a sale about is Ogawa. And so they sometimes have gross sales each month. They’re Ogawa Energetic L 3D is 3,799.
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Their Grasp Drive AI 2.0, they are saying is $8,099. That’s not the value. I can’t keep in mind what it’s. Anyway, it’s $4,000 off. The Ogawa Energetic XL is 3,899. And the Grasp Drive LE, which is their new mannequin is priced at 6,799. So, that’s what’s happening within the present gross sales. In fact, in our showrooms, we’ve got sure in-store gross sales so you’ll be able to at all times name one in every of our showrooms or our toll-free quantity to seek out out what’s cooking. However these are the printed, marketed costs that that I’m conscious of proper now that I believe that we’ve got proper now.
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And if you wish to know weekly what our up to date gross sales are, you’ll be able to scroll down on the house web page, and also you’ll see the realm the place you’ll be able to obtain the free report. You’ll be put in our digital e-newsletter. And this one, we ship out each week. And that has an replace on gross sales, new fashions, a function article, or a function video. There’s extra up-to-the-minute form of stuff in that digital e-newsletter. And I believe that’s it for this week. It was an thrilling time at CES, thrilling to see what’s happening. And I’ll speak about that one other time, however there are another factories that have been represented there.
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And there’s one chair, one manufacturing facility particularly that we’d prefer to see if we are able to carry one in every of their fashions. There could also be some points with it as a result of they’ve a few of their very own shops. I’ll offer you extra info as that, as that’s realized. And naturally, so we’re going to the Furnishings Market in Las Vegas. I’m simply going for the sooner or later on January thirtieth. And I’m going to be visiting the Cozzia Ogawa JP Medics firm. After which I’m going to be visiting Infinity, and I’m going to be visiting Osaki Titan and check out some new chairs there and go to with previous mates. I actually take pleasure in going there.
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It’s not fairly as chaotic because the Shopper Electronics Present, however I get to spend extra time speaking with people who find themselves very educated within the trade, and I actually take pleasure in that. So, no matter I be taught and no matter we do, I’ll share that. If you wish to see what I did at CES, you’ll be able to go to our weblog on our web site. And I wrote an article about what I noticed and all the pieces. Principally, I advised you now perhaps just a few additional issues, however I even have the video of me sitting within the Tremendous Novo X, if you wish to test that out.
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Anyway, I hope you discovered this video useful. Should you did, please be happy to thumbs up like us on our YouTube channel. We respect it once you try this. And naturally, assist us unfold the phrase about therapeutic massage chairs by sharing this video or any of our movies with any of your family and friends in your social media platforms. I’m Physician Alan Weidner from Therapeutic massage Chair Reduction, and I’ll see you once more on the subsequent video. Bye-bye.