PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a massage machine which appropriately moves treatment elements by making a plurality of treatment mechanisms cooperate with each other, efficiently carries out a treatment on a plurality of parts of a body of a person to be treated from the treatment elements, and thereby enabling a more effective massage by the treatment elements.SOLUTION: A plurality of treatment mechanisms, for making treatment elements make treatment motions accompanied by advancing and retreating movements to and from a body side, are arranged. The treatment elements in each of the treatment mechanisms are made to make treatment motions cooperatively, and thereby, pressing stimuli are given to a prescribed treatment region of a person to be treated by one treatment element, and pressing stimuli are given to the other region having a strong relation with the prescribed treatment region by the other treatment element cooperating with the one treatment element, simultaneously with one treatment element or with a slight time lag. Consequently, effects originally intended on a target region where treatment effects are desired can be further intensified and imparted by combining a plurality of the pressing stimuli that are highly related, and an efficient massage, which is not obtained only by simply adding treatment effects for every stimulus of a single treatment element, can be carried out.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】 複数の施療機構を協動させて施療子を適切に動作させ、施療子から被施療者の身体の複数箇所に効率よく施療を実行でき、施療子でのより効果的なマッサージを可能にするマッサージ機を提供する。【解決手段】 施療子の身体側への進退移動を伴う施療動作を行わせる施療機構を複数配設し、各施療機構における施療子の施療動作を協動させるようにして、被施療者の所定の施療部位に一の施療子で押圧刺激を加えると共に、この施療部位に対し強い関係性を有する他の部位に、一の施療子と協動する他の施療子で、一の施療子と同時に又は極わずかな時間差で押圧刺激を加えられることで、関連性の高い押圧刺激を複数組合せて、施療効果を与えたい対象部位への本来意図した効果をより一層強化して付与でき、一施療子での刺激ごとの施療効果を単純に足し合わせただけでは得られない、効率的なマッサージを実行できる。【選択図】 図1
