Physical benefits of massage include: Improved circulation. Decreased muscle stiffness. Decreased joint inflammation. Better quality of sleep.

Although they are different, these two types of massage both serve their function when it comes to overall wellness. While medical massage therapy is more geared toward fixing a specific problem, wellness massage helps clients relax and provides stress relief, which is very therapeutic.

A Massage Therapist can be sued, successfully, if they date a former client, on the basis that the treatment creates a false intimacy, and because there is an inequality to the relationship of practitioner and client which can be used to manipulate the client into a sexual relationship .