Everyone can benefit from a professional massage. It can help you feel as though you've taken a mini-vacation. And just as importantly, there are a number of conditions that respond extremely well to massage. Some of them are listed below. If it ultimately makes you feel better, then it is "Therapeutic".

• reduce your stress and anxiety
• increase the nourishing blood supply to your tissues
• improve your energy and alertness
• aid your recovery from pulled muscles
• relieve many of the discomforts that often occur during
  pregnancy
• relieve certain repetitive motion injuries related to work activities or hobbies
• greatly reduce pain from such problems as temporal mandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ), carpal tunnel syndrome or migraine headaches
• provide relief to persons coping with pain and stiffnes accompanying such conditions as Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis or due to forced inactivity
• reduce the pain and dysfunction that accompany rotator cuff problems
• provide relief to cancer patients
• reduce the discomfort of arthritis