When your legs are tingling because you’ve been sitting too long in the same position — that’s from poor circulation. It’s a type of neuropathy.
Mostly mechanically related, like from crossing your legs or sitting for hours, and not a symptom of a disease but it shouldn’t happen to anyone even on a 13 hour flight.
It can happen no matter how old you are, but of course it comes on faster when you’re older.
This is a problem you won’t have anymore if you’ve been “vibrating” 10 minutes once every day or every other day for just a couple weeks.
It works. This is the first significant long-term benefit I noticed about a week after I bought my first (linear) vibration platform. I was using it every day.
The only way this happens is by those tiny capillaries are getting exercised with blood flow much more than during your usual daily routine.
For those of you who don’t know how tiny and restrictive a pilot’s chair is, here’s one from a 747:
Smaller and less comfy than a taxi or long-haul truck. But taxi & truck drivers have serious issues with nerve neuropathy as well.
From airlinepilotforums.com, “The attending neurosurgeon is a renowned surgeon who practices at Johns Hopkins. In his opinion the injury was most likely caused by repeated pressure associated with the arm coming in contact with armrest of the seat in the jet. He stated that pilots and taxi drivers make up a significant percentage of his patients.“