Company History
Niagara Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare and
mobility products manufacturers. Established for over 50 years,
we have a long history of helping literally thousands of people
enjoy a more rich, fulfilling and healthier lifestyle.
The principle
At the very heart of the Niagara story we find the Cyclo-Massage®
effect. Massage itself is as old as any form of human therapy.
Generally safe, non-invasive and instantly soothing… not
surprisingly there have, over the centuries, been numerous attempts
to devise patented mechanical or automatic approaches to provide
the undoubted benefits without all the special skill, time and
sheer physical work which massage tends to demand. 
The machine age of course opened up a variety of new opportunities
in massage, but most of these systems were seriously flawed.Whilst
they delivered the massage energy by various means, all involved
some form of pounding, often piston-like or hammering action.While
this may have an apparent effect in stimulating (actually agitating
muscle and tissue) the jolting and rattling side-effect is likely
to do rather worse than cancel out any real benefit finally achieved.
In total contrast… Cyclo-Massage®… the secret
shared by each of the original Niagara products, works on a radically
different principle. Cyclo-Massage® Therapy employs a unique
elliptical movement, perhaps best described as a sort of wave
in three-dimensional form. It operates rather like a gyroscope,
creating a subtle, soothing, cycloidal (instead of just jarring)
vibration.
This is achieved by the fact that the multi-directional energy
waves are moving north/south, east/west, while also actually rotating
on a constant basis.The result? Deep, gentle, relaxing treatment,without
any of those conventional side-effect worries.
History of the idea...
Cyclo-Massage® is clearly a brilliant concept, and like many
such ideas, it has fascinatingly simple beginnings. Canada’s
coal-mines in the 1930s. William Wettlaufer had invented a new
machine based on a shuffling action to sift and separate various
grades of coal.
The system worked well enough, but he was more interested by
the number of workers who leaned or sat on the machine during
breaks, because they found it such an excellent way to soothe
aching backs and revive weary muscles.
The inventor spent time producing scaled-down versions of his
promising machine, and a prototype bought at auction, years later,
eventually led to Owen K. Murphy acquiring the patent and starting
to refine and produce the machine which saw the birth of the Niagara
Healthcare, a company which is one of the largest manufacturers
of therapy products in the world today.
A company still dedicated to finding novel, imaginative, natural
answers to a wide variety of health problems. But also a company
with scrupulous standards and the most exacting approach to quality
- underlined by full compliance ISO 9000:2000 and EN13485:2003.
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