I was so sad when the RMT I’d been seen for years moved to a clinic in the 'burbs. No more lunch time massages for me! I tried a couple others since then but none were as good. I’ll try again in a bit, but its sooooo frustrating! Theres one that everyone raves about but she books 6 months in advance!
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For you, perhaps. For me it is literally my nightmare. I cannot STAND people touching my head.
People? Yeah, that would be weird. I prefer one at a time. (Runs away)
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Amen. Sadly, many message therapists will insist that they know better, that they have to do the whole body thing because “it’s all connected” or some new-agey holistic BS. Heck, maybe they are right but I don’t care. Those I don’t go back to, but they are the majority in my experience. I’ve only found maybe 2 out of 10 that will actually do what I ask, (nothing outlandish, just to concentrate on the places I have problems). I’ve spent many an hour getting stressed out until minute 50 before finally asking “uh, you remember I mentioned about that knot in my arm we were going to concentrate on?”
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The trick is also finding a receptive masseuse. As stinkinbadgers mentions, some massage therapists get really weird about that kind of thing. Last time I paid for a professional massage, it was specifically to work on my arms, which I mentioned while making the appointment, and again as we got started. When they hadn’t touched my arms after a half hour, I asked about it and they said “I can’t really do much for your arms, that’s not my thing, but if you insist…” and they sort of rubbed them a little.
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My old job kept a masseuse on staff to give everyone neck/shoulder massages twice a week; it was amazing. She was this small motherly lady who’d lavish attention on your neck and back and everyone was blissed out afterwards. When she moved away, she consoled us by telling us her personal masseuse was taking over. Her replacement was this huge butch military-sounding lady who’d dig her elbow into muscle knots while growling; everyone ended up hunched over their computers in pain.
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And shoulders. My shoulders KILL. From outstretched arms mousing and typing all day.
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Sounds like a perfect massage to me!
Heh, my back and shoulders are fine, but my neck is locked in position all day because the building I work in is one of those early “earthquake proof” affairs. You know, the kind where you feel the whole structure jiggle when someone takes a crap or closes a door too hard. So I get my neck all tweaked just trying to sit still and not pay attention to the fact that both my monitors are constantly vibrating.
Never had a good one. I’ve had several back in school days, when we were supposed to massage each other as part of “cooldown” (hah!) and later, my friend told me that paying for one was worlds different. After that experience, I resolved never to pay for a massage ever again. Simply couldn’t understand why people would pay to feel like that… stressed, achy and enervated all at once, ugh.
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