{"id":435,"date":"2006-01-10T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=435"},"modified":"2006-01-10T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T00:53:00","slug":"deep-tissue-massage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Deep Tissue Massage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just had my first deep tissue massage.<\/p>\n

It’s silly that I’ve never had one before. My back is notorious for being as stiff as a board. Like wood, H.E. would say. The best massages I had before today involved a lot of kneading and a lot of heavier-than-me weight on top of me. And still, my muscles would be unyielding.<\/p>\n

Since I lost the day job, though, and long since I stopped commuting 150 miles a day, my back has relaxed somewhat, so I’m not nearly as tense as I used to be. Pretty darned relaxed, comparatively, especially when I consider how like kneading rope and bone my muscles once were. Yet I gave the deep tissue massage a try, and … sigh. I’m almost way too relaxed to write about it now.<\/p>\n

Almost.<\/p>\n

She found knots, little bundles of muscle tissue deep, deep, deep in the muscles. They click as you rub over them–I feel them too when I rub my own back (yes, I can rub my own back). But she put pressure on the knots and held it there, steadily, until the knots flattened out and disappeared, and the pain felt good.<\/p>\n

She found them in my legs as well. I was surprised because I never knew my legs were tense. I’m off them often enough that they never really have to worry about a thing, my legs.<\/p>\n

But she found those knots and rubbed them away.<\/p>\n

Now I completely understand the fantasy of being away on vacation, on a tropical isle, lying face down on a table with a masseuse or masseur at your back and call. But it definitely has to be deep tissue.<\/p>\n

Anything less is a joke.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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I just had my first deep tissue massage. It’s silly that I’ve never had one before. My back is notorious for being as stiff as a board. Like wood, H.E. would say. The best massages I had before today involved a lot of kneading and a lot of heavier-than-me weight on top of me. And still, my muscles would be unyielding. Since I lost the day job, though, and long since I stopped commuting 150 miles a day, my back…<\/p>\n

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