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Does massage therapy “work” ? - A Massage Assessment by Paul Ingraham:

"Do we underestimate the value of massage as a form of psychotherapy? (Perhaps while overestimating its power to tenderize muscle and defeat pain?)
Recently I got a brief chair massage, after a long interval without massage. Such relief! After 15 years of study, I still don’t understand why that is such an INTENSE sensory experience — only that it is, and that it matters.
Any massage therapist who has been working for more than a month has observed the curious way that touch provokes introspection, insight, and inspiration. The revelations of contact (“I had no idea I felt this way!”) transmogrify into revelations with broader significance. Intense and/or novel sensations can be a catalyst for personal growth. Above all, massage reminds us what it is like to feel good, and we often desperately NEED that reminder. We may then feel highly motivated to reclaim that sense of well-being in the rest of their lives.
It seems to me that massage is a profoundly valuable service regardless of what other effects it does or does not have on pain, tissues, or pathologies." - Paul Ingraham