A proper massage therapist is $100+ an hour, booked three weeks out, and gone the second the session ends. This sits in your lounge and is available the instant you need it — which, if you’re honest, is most days.
The base of your neck. The lower back that’s been asking since Tuesday. The shoulders that hunch without your permission by 3pm. It doesn’t fix itself — it just becomes normal, and you stop noticing it’s there.
Booking an actual massage therapist means finding the time, paying $100 or more for a single hour, and doing it all again in two weeks because the effect fades fast without consistency.
Consistency is the entire game with bodywork, and consistency is exactly what a once-a-month appointment can never give you.
A full programme, start to finish — what it actually does to a knotted back