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by David Palmer (Note: This is an updated version of an article originally published in the British magazine Positive Health in 1998.)
Chair Massage is fast becoming the most popular form of professional touch on the contemporary bodywork landscape. In airports, shopping malls, convention centers, corporate board rooms, supermarkets, street corners, dentist offices, and hospitals you can now find practitioners making chair massage as common and acceptable as a haircut. How has this form of bodywork, virtually unheard of before 1986, managed to capture the imagination of a growing segment of the U.S. popu lation and, more recently, begun to impact Europe and the UK? In this article I will attempt to describe some of the significant landmarks that have marked the evolution of Chair Massage.
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