With great swathes of the UK workforce switching to home or hybrid working, time spent at desks in home offices may be taking its toll on our backs and necks. Advice on sitting position and using the correct chair is all very well but if our posture is letting us down, then those aches and pains will come to the surface.
Writer Kate Lally, from Nottinghamshire Live sister publication, Liverpool Echo, was suffering from her "fair share of aches and pains" so decided to check out a massage gun as she had "always fancied" trying one out - but then she saw the prices. She said: "I did my online research and the best rated ones came in at over £200. Even the best 'budget' ones were around the £100 mark." However, after spotting a £39.99 version on the Aldi website, she decided to give the budget product a spin.
She ordered the Crane fitness massage gun, which claims to "soothe tension knots". Aldi describes it as being "designed to help relax aches and pains after your workout or in your day-to-day life". Here's what Kate discovered.
