My boyfriend and I have recently gotten a far infrared sauna installed in our basement, and we really purchased it because both of us have problems with both our necks and backs due to car accidents and other unknown injuries. Before purchasing our sauna, I had done a lot of reading about the different types of saunas available on the market today, and came up with two basic types.

The first is an “old school” sauna that uses normal, circulating heat to heat the cabin to very high temperatures and heat the surface of your body with a dry heat to produce perspiration.

The second is the infarered sauna, which also uses high temperatures to heat the body and soothe muscle and joint pain, but instead of heating the outside of your body, infarered heat waves have (supposedly), the ability to penetrate the tissue a little more deeply and are therefore supposed to be able to provide a little more relief from muscle and joint stiffness.

After reading about the two, even though the infarereds were typically a bit more expensive, I decided that for my purpose of muscle and joint pain, we should go with the infared type of sauna. This way we could use it at night after a long day of sitting at work and stiffening up, and after workouts to help loosen up our muscles from the vigorous activity.

So far, so good. We love it and we’ve had it for not even one week. We’ve been in it every night, and it does appear that it’s helping both of us with our forever-tight muscles and loopy backs. More to come on this as we hopefully discover more and more health benefits from the infrared sauna.

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