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Gowri Rao, published in The Scotsman Magazine in November 2008.
"If you work at a desk for any length of time - so yes, I'm referring to pretty much the entire population here - chances are you need this treatment. I know I did, as someone who for years has had such severe tension in my upper back, shoulders, and neck that a massage therapist once asked me how long it had been since the car crash.
Falling somewhere between massage, osteopathy and a light workout, this treatment is ideal if you lead a stressfull life and feel tight and tired.
The affable therapist, Robbie, began by talking to me about my work, lifestyle, and specific sore spots. By lying me down and moving my arms, shoulders and neck into various positions, he showed me some unpalatable truths about my body. I've basically taught it, over many years to be the tense, stiff, awkward, unoiled machine that it is today. Once I was suitably mortified, Robbie set about making me chill.
It was suprisingly difficult to make myself go completely limp, as instructed, while he jiggled me about. The idea - based on scientific study of how the body works and learns to carry itself - is that if you relearn to relax, you will prevent tension-prone areas seizing up in the future. As someone who has tried osteopathy many times it was a relief to experience a softer, more neurological treatment that wasn't all about manipulating joints and producing great cracks and pops, but rather focused on working on how the muscles had become tight in the first place.
After Robbie had finished with my right shoulder - from which most of my problems stem - I felt as though my left was sticking up awkwardly in comparrison. For the first time in ages, my right shoulder was lying back, an inch lower than my left, fully supported by the mattress. Afterwards, I felt sleepy, as Robbie had predicted, and already I am thinking about my body differently. If only I had gone to see him five years ago."
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