The massaging roller for the skin and reflex zones of the human body has a handle (2) with a spindle, on which massage rings turn freely. They have protrusions with needle points evenly spaced round the periphery. Two parallel spindles (3a, 3b) carry the rings, each secured at one end at right angles to a cross-piece (6a) fixed to the handle. The thickness of the cross-piece is pref. less than the spindle dia.