Best Back Massage Chair Reviews and Ratings

It’s shocking how inexpensive this design is. Kahuna is another company with a reputation for excellence, and the SM7300 is a great example of this.

Far and away the least expensive chair on our list, it narrowly missed first place, and may yet be your first choice if the aesthetic of the Novo XT2 doesn’t mesh well with your home’s décor. The stand-out feature here, and the thing that makes it a top contender for the title of the best back massage chair is the presence of the six-roller system.

Quad rollers are the current industry standard, and this is the only model we’ve seen with six rollers. It’s extremely unusual to find a real innovation like this in such a low-priced chair, which is another reason it ranked so highly.

Kahuna SM7300 does have a few limitations. Only one advanced massage technique, only a single Zero-G seating position, but the bottom line is, this is an incredibly powerful design.

Here are some of the other significant aspects of the SM7300:

That’s a tremendous amount of value, packed into a surprisingly low-priced offering.

The Luraco’s i7 is featured in many of our round up reviews, and with good reason. It’s a tremendously robust design that offers immense therapeutic value, and many of its features enhance the quality of its back massage.

In addition to extensive heat, two advanced massage techniques, and the second highest number of airbags on our list, the Luraco i7 offers the following stand-outs:​

The Dreamwave is the standard which most other chairs are judged by.

There are two things in particular that make this a strong contender.

First, although the Dreamwave provides only a single advanced massage technique, it offers more than a thousand different massage combinations. That’s more than an order of magnitude more than almost every other chair on the market today.

While number of combinations by themselves don’t equate to a superior back massage, the fact that the Dreamwave offers so many means it gives you unparalleled customization.

Second, although we’ve said that the number of airbags is only a relatively minor feature where back massage, in particular, is concerned, again, the fact that the Dreamwave offers so much more than its competitors puts it in a class by itself.

It’s true, there are a few things the Dreamwave lacks, which hurts the quality of its back massage, most notably the lack of a body stretch feature and 4D roller tech, and their absence is the reason that it didn’t rank higher than it did.

Nonetheless, if you’re a committed Do-It-Yourselfer, and you love the ability to control virtually every aspect of the massage you get, there’s no finer chair on the market today.

Fujita’s SMK82 gets a lot right, and is, by all accounts, an excellent massage chair. Even as the weakest of the five models we’ve considered, it’s still a robust model.

Where back massage, in particular, is concerned, the two stand-out features are its whole back heat and the two advanced massage techniques it brings to the table. The Thai Body Stretch is another thing that should be high on your radar, as it is arguably the second-best body stretch in the business (second only to Kahuna’s Yoga Stretch).