How to Massage: Basic Techniques Used By Massage Therapists (w/ Videos)

Most of what massage therapy changes doesn’t happen in the muscle first. It happens in the nervous system. We’ve been taught to think in terms of pressure: “deeper is better,” “break it up,” “work it out.” But when you look at the research, there’s very little evidence that massage literally breaks apart tissue the way we imagine. People are not puddy, not clay to be molded. We are composed of living, highly innervated tissues. What is well supported is the way touch changes how the nervous syst