by David Palmer | May 23, 2011 | Chair Massage, History
My love affair with chair massage began in 1982, four years before the first professional massage chair came on the market. This is the story of what it took to get that first massage chair built. The problem The team I had assembled to begin providing seated massage...
by David Palmer | May 23, 2011 | Chair Massage
Oils and lotions were out. That seemed obvious back in 1982 when I first began exploring the idea of massaging people in a seated position. Fortunately, because I had been trained in traditional Japanese massage (Amma), that was not a problem. Amma practitioners...
by David Palmer | May 22, 2011 | Chair Massage
“You can’t call that massage!” The year was 1984 and the irritated voice on the other end of the phone was the owner of a well known massage school in New York objecting to my description of chair massage. “A massage is something that is done...
