20 Years of Massage School
15 June 2006As the Pittsburgh School of Massage Therapy celebrates its 20th anniversary, its hometown paper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette profiles both the school and the field of massage therapy.
Decades ago, when massage therapists would tell people they gave, you know, “massages,” the reaction was weird looks, shock, suspicion.
The perception was what one might suspect: that massage therapists were involved in sex, not health — touching lurid body parts rather than providing beneficial treatment for pain, stress and other ailments.
Twenty years later that perception largely has changed, to the glee of massage therapists and their clients who have experienced its benefits.
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