Skin deep: the benefits of massage

The benefits of massage are much more than skin deep.

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5th May, 2012

Massage therapy used to be considered the preserve of luxury spas and sport clinics, and it is still sometimes erroneously associated with the sex industry, but humans have been giving each other back rubs for millennia: Hippocrates recommended the benefits of massage, as did the physicians Celsus and Galen. Maybe because so many of us now spend our lives crouched over computer screens, massage therapy seems to have gone mainstream; it’s not just a treat on Mother’s Day but a legitimate health treatment, and one that is increasingly offered in workplaces, clinics, hospitals and malls. Anyone ...

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