68 m a s s a g e & b o d y w o r k j u l y / a u g u s t 2 0 1 9
THE BENEFITS
OF MASSAGE
Research has revealed a lot about massage. Up until the mid-
1980s, we had some ideas about what was happening under
our hands, and we made best guesses based on tradition and
observations about how to do our work safely. Mostly we
did a good job at this, but we made some mistakes too.
WHAT DOES MASSAGE RESE ARCH RE ALLY SAY?
BY RUTH WERNER