Synca Wellness Kagra 4D Premium Massage Chair Review 2024

Do you suffer from chronic pain in your back, legs, or feet? Does that fact mean you are spending tons of time and money making trips to your local chiropractor’s office and seeking relief?

If you answered yes to either of those questions, then you’ll love what you read in this—our Kagra massage chair review.

We’ll be the first to admit that this massage chair won’t be for everyone.

While it’s certainly not the most expensive massage chair on the market today (not even close), it’s offered at a price that puts it well beyond the value segment of the market. So, if you’re on a budget, no matter how much you may love this chair, it will probably be a struggle to make it work—financially.

Still, this chair offers a lot if you save up.

If you are interested and want to learn more, read on, and let’s take a closer look.

Key Features of the Synca Kagra 4D Premium Massage Chair

Let’s get the obvious thing out of the way first. If you’ve spent any time exploring the massage chair market, you probably already know all the big-name players in the industry—Human Touch, Kahuna, Osaki, and a few others. These giants dominate the massage chair landscape.

A little farther out, you’ll find a constellation of smaller brands. They make and sell good products, but their footprint is notably smaller, and they cannot offer post-sales support.

Synca Wellness probably hasn’t ever cropped up on your radar before, so who are these guys?

As it turns out, that’s an interesting story that has a bearing on this massage chair.

Synca Wellness is a subsidiary owned by Johnson Health Tech, formerly called Johnson Metals.

If you’re unfamiliar with the name, Johnson Metals might sound like a steel manufacturer. Still, they make a popular line of exercise equipment, which is how and where they got their stellar reputation.

They know exercise equipment, and consequently, they really know the human musculoskeletal system. That matters because they share that expertise with chiropractors, and massage chairs seek to emulate the massage and adjustment experience you get when you visit your local chiropractor.

That said, the design team behind Synca Wellness massage chairs has extensive experience with the human body, which gives them a huge leg up in terms of designing a world-class massage chair—even if it’s an industry they’re not well known in.

As you’ll see, they put their expertise to good use because this is an amazing chair from top to bottom.

Before we discuss the massage features that make it so good, let’s consider the chair itself. After all, it will probably either replace your living room recliner or sit next to it. So, as a chair, it needs to hit all the right notes, just as it needs to deliver a world-class massage.

Aesthetically, the Synca Wellness Kagra looks a bit futuristic. But unlike most massage chairs on the market today, the design team here took pains to create a chair that would blend in relatively easily with the rest of the furniture in your living room.

The Kagra is upholstered in PU (which is what almost every massage chair sold today is clad in) and is offered in three different color options: white, black, or brown.

While there is not a lot to choose from, it covers the basics and makes matching the color of your furniture fairly simple.

Even better, the Kagra is designed so that when you’re not using the chair to get a massage, the leg ports fold in and under the chair, which makes the chair look like a futuristic recliner—and that’s pretty cool.

It should be noted, however, that this is a sizeable piece of furniture, measuring 35” W x 53.1” L x 48.4” H when the chair is fully upright and 35” W x 73.6” L x 36.6” H when reclined. It weighs in at 211.6 pounds, so this isn’t a piece of furniture you can scoot around your living room on a whim. If you decide to move it, you’ll probably need a second pair of hands.

The good news is that unlike a fair percentage of chairs on the market today, this one can support users weighing up to 300 pounds and up to 6’3” tall—both of which are superb. Those facts make this chair useful to some 90% of the massage chair market.

Massage Technology

This will be a short section but a powerful component of our Kagra massage chair review because the design team didn’t cut many corners when building the framework of their chair.

With one exception, it utilizes state-of-the-art technology, incorporating quad rollers into a 3D massage track.

The one weakness we find in this segment of our review is that the track only extends to the lumbar region of your back, making it an “S-Track” chair.

We would have preferred an L-Track design that allowed the rollers to travel under the seat to massage your glutes and thighs. But given that the airbags we’ll talk more about later cover hips and thighs, we can certainly overlook this limitation.

One thing that makes it even easier to overlook that the designers opted for an S-track rather than an L-track is that the design team went above and beyond regarding the rollers.

To explain, we have to discuss the different roller configurations you can find on the market.

There are three: 2D, 3D, and 4D. 4D is a fairly recent addition capable of delivering the best overall massage.

A 2D track allows the rollers to move up and down and left and right, along the X- and Y-axes.

In a 3D design, the rollers can also move along the Z-axis, which is how some massage chairs are able to render amazing deep tissue massages.

And then, there are 4D chairs. In addition to being able to move along the X-, Y-, and Z-axis, the rollers spin as they move, orbiting each other to create another dimension to the motion and coming even closer to replicating the feel of human hands.

That’s what this chair offers, and the massage you get from it is absolutely amazing.

Do we wish it also had an L-track? Sure.

Absolutely, but we’ll take the S-track, no problem!

Dual-Layer Body Scanning Tech

This is another powerful component of our Kagra massage chair review because, once again, the folks at Synca Wellness went the extra mile.

Most massage chairs sold today offer body scanning tech, but this one goes further. The dual-layer approach means the scan will almost always put the rollers in the right spot. In practice, the scan will get it right and deliver the perfect massage 99.9% of the time. 

You may wear the chair out before you experience it, putting the rollers in suboptimal positions.

Even if that happens, you’ll find buttons on the control panel attached to the chair that allow you to tweak the rollers into the perfect position, so you’ll never get a bad massage from this chair.

Fewer Massage Options Than Advertised (And We’re Still Impressed!)

Sometimes, companies stretch the definitions of established industry terms for marketing purposes.

Take, for example, Synca’s claim that the Synca Kagra 4D offers 78 different massage techniques.

Sounds amazing, right?

Well…it doesn’t. Not even close. Here are the massage techniques you’ll find on offer:

By our count, that’s seven techniques, a far cry from 78. We’ll get to how the company arrived at 78 in just a minute, but before we do, let’s talk about the actual techniques on offer.

The basics are what you’d expect, but we count THREE advanced techniques (and one variation of the same advanced technique).

Most massage chairs sold today offer one advanced technique, and it’s almost always Shiatsu because, honestly, it’s the easiest technique to master on a machine.

A handful offer two advanced techniques. Very few models (you can count them on one hand!) offer three, and the Synca Kagra is one of those few. All by itself, that’s amazing. The company didn’t need to inflate the number artificially—three advanced techniques are huge, and it’s one of the major selling points of this design.

In addition to those techniques, you’ll find the following auto-programs available:

And on top of that, you’ll find the following targeted stretch routines (the “Stretch” above is for the full-body stretch):

And manual functions for:

So now that we know what this chair does and what it offers, let’s get back to the claim of 78 different techniques. 

Well, as it turns out, and depending on exactly how you count if you multiply the various settings by 5 for the roller-based stuff and 3 for the airbag-based stuff (which represents the number of intensity settings for each type of massage), you get a range of numbers in the neighborhood of 78.

The point is, yes, this chair offers many different customization options, including five roller intensity levels on top of all the stuff we just listed. But no, that doesn’t mean there are 78 different massage techniques.

We’re not exactly sure why the company opted to inflate the number for marketing purposes. They didn’t need to. The list above is impressive on its own. It doesn’t need any help. This chair really delivers when it comes to massage techniques and pre-programmed routines. There’s a lot to like here, and marketing ploy aside, we’re impressed.

A Good Air Massage

The Synca Kagra massage chair features 31 airbags that can be used independently to provide a good airbag-based massage or, in some instances (the stretching routines in particular), in conjunction with the chair’s rollers to render a different sort of massage.

Here, you can order a full-body air massage (all airbags activated at once), or you can selectively activate bags by body region, including:

Additionally, as mentioned in the last section, you can modify your airbag-based massage via the remote through three different intensity levels, allowing you to customize the experience to your taste.

Where airbag massage is concerned, more airbags generally result in a better overall massage, and at the price this machine is offered, 31 airbags are a little on the light side. So, the massage isn’t quite as good as what you get from the rollers, but it’s still incredibly enjoyable. 

You won’t be disappointed; it’s just that we wouldn’t rate this as one of the design’s keystone features.

Zero-G Seating

This will be another short section, but it’s definitely worth mentioning. NASA-inspired Zero-G seating is a superb addition to any massage chair, and we were thrilled to see it included here.

It’s more than just a name or a marketing gimmick. It provides a raft of powerful therapeutic benefits, including the fact that it helps take pressure off of your spine, improves blood flow, and facilitates faster healing if you’ve recently had surgery.

We would love to have seen two or even three Zero-G seating options available, but this model only offers one. Even so, we’ll take it! That, combined with the deep tissue massage this chair can give you, represents two incredibly powerful therapeutic features, and there’s more yet to talk about!

Heat, Glorious Heat

In our view, this is the best feature of the Kagra Synca Wellness chair and one of the main reasons to consider this model over others. It’s got heat like you wouldn’t believe.

The chair comes with what can best be described as a “heated vest” that normally lays on the seatback.

Leave it in that position and turn on the heat function, and your whole back will get toasty while you’re enjoying a massage.

Alternatively, you can “put the vest on” while seated in the chair and enjoy heat over the front of your torso. The “vest” even comes with heated pockets!

We love it, and it really elevates the massage this chair can deliver to a whole new level of awesome. It adds another powerful therapeutic feature to the mix in a way we’ve not seen replicated by any other company. Kudos to Synca Wellness!

A Next-Level Good Calf And Foot Massage

The heated vest contraption is very cool, but this chair offers more heat. The leg massage ports are heated, too, both in the calf region and on the soles of your feet.

The calf and foot massage was already good, with the calf massage being rendered by airbags and the foot massage being handled by acupressure rollers at the bottom of the footwells. But adding heat on top of that makes this feature one of the best on the chair and, honestly, one of the best implementations in the entire massage chair industry.

If you are looking for a chair that goes the extra mile for the calf and foot massage, then this one belongs on your shortlist.

High-Value Finishing Touches Too!

In addition to the above, we were thrilled to see that Synca Wellness didn’t skimp on extras.

This chair has a number of them, including:

All of the chair’s massages default to 19 minutes, which is unusual. However, you can modify the duration of the massage routine you’re running to 10 or 16 minutes.

Despite the unusual massage time numbers, these are all excellent features that really round out the design. 

Pros & Cons of Synca Wellness Kagra

It’s hard even to know where to start listing this chair’s best features. In no particular order, here are some of the ones that stand out to us:

We don’t have any major negatives to report, but a couple of nits would be things like: 

Given how many positives this chair has going for it, though, those are minor complaints.

Kagra Massage Chair Review Conclusion

If you suffer from chronic pain, this chair could be a game-changer. It’s a masterful design, and we recommend it without reservation. Even if you don’t suffer from chronic pain, if your budget can support it, this one belongs on your shortlist. It’s fantastic, and you won’t be disappointed.

Other Options To Consider

If, for one reason or another, this model isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, here are a couple of other options to consider:

Sporting a longer massage track and an impressive six-roller array in place of Synca’s quad rollers, this chair, offered by one of the industry’s biggest and most respected names, is not to be missed.

It’s packed with features you’ll love and arguably the best body stretch in the industry (though you do give up the stretching variants that Synca brings).

Even so, this one is less expensive than the chair we just reviewed and worth considering.

This model has been around for a while but is still one of the best therapeutic massage chairs in the industry. If you’re a chronic pain sufferer and want different features to compare and contrast with those found in the Synca Wellness chair, give this one a look!

Official Manufacturer Support

References & Resources:

• SYNCA, Official Brand Website.
• SYNCA Kagra Massage Chair User Manual
• 8 Relaxing Full Body Stretches, Very Well Fit. 
• Muscle Rolling, IvyRose Holistic. 
• The 5 Techniques of Swedish Massage, Elements Massage.