Patent ID: 8348870

Claim:
A massaging apparatus comprising: a rubbing unit including: a pair of massaging plates which are adapted to be disposed at both sides of a body part of a user so as to sandwich the body part; a rubbing driving unit configured to cause the massaging plates to reciprocate in a direction along a side surface of the body part; and air bags which are disposed outside the massaging plates and are expanded and contracted by air supply and exhaust, to change a distance between the pair of massaging plates; wherein the massaging plates are adapted to be reciprocatable along the side surface of the body part in a state where the air bags are expanded; wherein during reciprocation of the massaging plates in the direction along the sides surface of the body part, the air bags do not move in the direction along the side surface of the body part; and wherein the rubbing driving unit moves the massaging plates in opposite directions.