#massage roller

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Yoga Massage Producten

Voor het versterken van spieren, het losmaken van gewrichten, het vergroten van de flexibiliteit en het stimuleren van de doorbloeding zijn yoga-massageproducten het beste.

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Incredible massage roller(?), Emmaüs, Ormes, France

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These were at Staples Business Depot (Canada) and I thought they were pretty stimmy!

First one is a notebook with a LEGO-like texture of silicon for the cover. Is comes with two silicon “bricks” that you can stick on the cover and peel off. The bumps feel a little like popping bubble wrap. This was $2.97 CAD on clearance.

Second is long, rope-like erasers. They remind me of liquorice rope! They come in four different twisty textures; smooth (no twist), slight/loose twist, a medium twist that looks/feels a lot like liquorice rope, and a tight twist that feels like the smooth one but with little bumps and ridges. They were over a foot long, maybe 18 inches? These were $0.87 CAD on clearance.

Last was a rolling massager with an extendable handle. The handles had a soft squishy foam coating on them and came in three colours; red, orange, and lime green. The bumps on the rolling part where made of a firm, plastic-like rubber, they had a tiny bit of give but weren’t what I’d call soft. In the image it looks like the roller is divided into sections that each roll independently, but it’s all one piece of rubber. I couldn’t find a price for these anywhere sadly, but I’d imagine they wouldn’t be more than $4 CAD.

(Sorry for no proper image descriptions! They’re difficult for me)

@newt-safeforwork, thank you so much for giving us another source for the rolling massagers!

I love posts like this that point out the stimmy potential in stationery items, as they’re often easy to find and stealth for school and office stimmers. Thank you!

Here’s the store locator so Canadians can check to see where their closest stores are.

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[image description: a green, black and silver extendable massager, sitting on a red watermelon slice pillow. The massager has a top bar housed in a black plastic bracket, with seven rotating wheels that turn around the bar. Each wheel is made from slightly-compressible green plastic, probably a type of vinyl, and has six protruding knobs capped with a circle, giving it a ship’s wheel-type look. The black bracket extends to a silver shaft capped with a green plastic handle. A grey tag attached to the shaft via white zip tie reads “Durmaz Extendable Massager” showing drawings of the massager and two pictures of the massager in use. A white price sticker reads “$1.80”.]

Extendable Massager - Yen Huot Gift Shop, $1.80 AUD.

Every time I get a new massager, I end up saying that the new one is much better than my previous ones, and this is true as well.

I really like that the plastic knobs can rotate independently of each other, as this makes the massager roll better over non-flat surfaces. It’s also good for hand-held stimming, as you can twist, turn and spin the knobs together or independently. The softer vinyl-like plastic is hard enough to provide pressure but not hard enough to hurt, which is really good for shins, forearms and wrists where there’s less protective muscle and tissue.

The beauty of this one, though, is the extendable handle. I tend to treat these as stim toys in their own right, just by extending and compressing the handle. (I’ve broken extendable dusters by doing this!) However, here it provides much easier use of the massager with a minimum of bending over or twisting. I can reach my foot without bending over at all, for example, or my back with minimum twisting of my arm. (Right now I can’t put my right arm directly behind my back for longer than a few seconds without provoking hours of pain to follow; this lets me keep my arm in a more comfortable position.) If you wish to massage your own back and neck and struggle with reaching, or your legs and struggle with bending over, this massager is really worth trying.

I’m not sure how sturdy this will be, as I have broken dusters with these kinds of handles. I would probably try to resist the urge to stim with the handle!

I couldn’t find this specific model on eBay, just extendable rake-shaped and claw-shaped massagers (starting from $0.77 USD for the wooden ones, around $1 USD for plastic ones). For folks like me who have difficulty with movement or reaching, though, they might be worth checking out.

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[image description: a packaged, red Daiso Foot Sole Roller sitting on a red watermelon slice pillow. The roller is a red, round silicone pillar with a flat top and bottom and large round dots protruding from the pillar, similar to that of a regular massage or prickle ball but larger and rounder. It is attached to a white and purple back card that reads “Ashiura Roller” and information text in English, Japanese and Spanish.]

Foot Sole Roller - Daiso, $2.80 AUD.

It’s more common now to see roller massage tools in dollar and department stores, but this one is the best one I’ve ever used.

It’s made from a very firm silicone with larger bumps, meaning that the raised bumps compress slightly under your hands. The silicone does tend to grip your skin more, compared to a hard plastic massage roller or ball, but the bumps have softer, less-sharp feel when rolled--this is especially noticeable for forearm or shin rolling where there’s less cushioning between skin and bone.

The real beauty for this one, though, is the lack of handle, giving this one a lot more usability. This one I’ve reviewed previously has a handle, meaning it can only be rolled over your limbs. This one can be rolled (whilst also massaging your palm at the same time), it can be placed under your feet and it can be just rolled between your palms. You can sit on it or press it between your back and chair--it has all the versatility of a ball with the sensory appeal of softer, larger nubs.

If you like massaging toys, I absolutely have to recommend this one.

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[Image description: a white, four colour click roller pen lying on a red watermelon slice pillow. The green and blue click buttons face upwards. The tip of the pen has an embossed snake scale pattern shaft reaching halfway up the pen. The top of the pen reaches up into a loop shape forming the frame for a white roller sitting above the coloured buttons. The roller has rows of raised half circles across the roller, alternating between rows of six and five buttons. It’s made from a soft, slightly squishy vinyl.]

Roller pen: Daiso, $2.80 AUD.

This is just a standard four colour click pen in red, black, blue and green. It works just like any other four colour pen. The interesting part is the roller, made from a slightly squishy vinyl that’s just firm enough to press against the skin but not so hard as to cause pain. It’s the most gentle massage roller I have and feels good against face, lips or fingers.

It can also be used as a kind of spinner: the roller can be spun, and it makes a noise like toy car wheels on a hard floor. It doesn’t last very long, perhaps 30 seconds at most.

As a stealth toy, this is ideal. It works in any office or school environment, and can be used either as a spinner or a massage roller. Plus the pen even works!

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I have a fidget cube and I really like the switch and the ball, but I don't really use the other sides. I have bigger hands and the cube is tiny and awkward in them, too. Do you have any suggestions for some bigger toys that would be like those parts of the cube? I don't have any preference for discreetness or anything.

Hey, anon! I’m so glad to be able to tell you that I do have some ideas for you!

First of all, if you still kind of like the idea of fidget cube style toys in general, you might want to check out my review of the fidget pad. Mine is thinner than the cube but almost twice as long, and the buttons and switches are either larger or wider, and it might be easier for you to use. I bought mine locally, but there’s a variety on eBay starting from $3.99 USD, many listings with free international shipping. The switch on mine is noisy but good, and the peanut shape means I can cradle the base of the toy in my hand and still work the switch with the same thumb. It’s much more comfortable than trying to do the same with the fidget cube.

(Note that the fidget pad, sadly, does not have the ball. A sad lapse, in my opinion.)

Likewise, the Holy Crystal is quite a bit larger than the fidget cube, too.

There’s also a very strange 10-sided fidget shape, $14.99 USD, which looks to be larger based on the hand (although the coin for scale doesn’t help since I have no idea what that coin is) in the photo. (Why couldn’t they do a comparison photo beside a fidget cube?) It has several switches but again, no roller ball.

For the switch, I’d direct you to the many inexpensive light switch options available on eBay. Mod Rainbow wrote this post detailing their experience with this switch - 2 for $1.13 AUD with free international shipping. Or you might like this thicker white one (perhaps easier to hold) at $1.33 AUD each. These switches, both $1 AUD each, have a larger switch in different shaped plates and might also be worth considering: one and two.

(By the way, for those who like gear-style rolling switches: 2 for $1.33 AUD, free shipping. There’s also a small red rocker switch, for folks who just want a tiny portable switch at 3 for $1.09 AUD, free shipping. And if you want small push button switches? 5 for $1.39 AUD, free shipping.)

For the ball, I’m thinking one of the several different sorts of spinners that have balls set in the spinner arms. The larger sizes of the spinners might be easier for you to hold, especially the multi-arm flower spinners. There’s many of these, so I’ll just grab a few eBay links as examples you might want to check out:

Five arm flower-shaped spinner: $1.13 USD with free shipping | sunflower spinner: $2.10 USD with free shipping | 18 ball tri-spinner: $6.99 USD with free shipping | narrow tri-spinner: $4.02 USD with free shipping.

If you want a very big ball (the base is 6 cm across!) I’d also suggest a massage roller. I’ve got this K-Mart one, $5 AUD each. It’s slightly harder to spin than the silver fidget cube balls, but not by much, and you can easily rest it on a desk or grip the base with one hand while rolling the ball with the other.

Anon, I have a feeling there’s a roller-ball-set toy I’ve forgotten. I’ve gone through my hoard and I can’t find it, but this sense of a toy I should remember is itching at my brain. I just can’t get at what it is! So if I get an anon message, comment or reblog that points out his lapse, or I remember, I’ll make sure it’s posted on the blog.

I hope, in the meantime, this gives you somewhere to begin!

- Mod K.A.