by David Palmer | Feb 28, 2016 | Touch
What are the evolutionary roots of massage. Is there a genetic basis?
by David Palmer | Feb 27, 2012 | Business
The first professional massage I ever received was around 1970 in an old Russian Banya on the near-North Side of Chicago called the Luxor Baths. The clientele was a mix of the old Jewish expats who had moved to the suburbs (Nelson Algren used to hang out here) and the...
by David Palmer | Jan 9, 2012 | Bodywork, Politics
For as long as people have been paying for therapeutic massage services, practitioners have feared being mistaken for prostitutes. That fear was the primary driving force that, in 1983, led the American Massage Therapy Association to re-brand “massage” into “massage...