Competitors rub shoulders in the world of competitive massage

Massage has always been part of folk medicine, which took place in ancient China, Egypt, Greece and Rome, usually in bathrooms. Hippocrates wrote that doctors must be good at many things, but “friction with certainty.” The eleventh-century Arab philosopher Avicenna wrote before the movement “prepare for friction” and then “restore friction”. But until the early 19th century, when the Swedish educator Henrik Ling collected, compiled and published sports and massage techniques from several world traditions, we knew this was born. In 1813, Lin opened the Royal Central Gymnastics Academy in Stockholm, which also opened the pioneering nature of Caristani. After Ling’s death, Johann Georg Mezger, a Dutch student in Swedish medical gymnastics, took the French names that are still in use today, namely efffleurage, petrissage, tapototement (Taptotement), etc. to massagers. “Swedish massage” refers to the use of these technologies, although most parts of the world, including Sweden, call it “classic massage”. For some people, especially in North America, “Swedes” have been used as a shorthand for light, relaxing massage (or ridiculed in Biz, “villi and “villi”), contrary to a more dense type, commonly known as “deep tissue” (a too broad, sometimes occasionally misleading term), which may include many neuromuscular stress, do not involve a variety of stresses, and may not include or otherwise, and do not include or otherwise. Many clients will not necessarily know the difference, or to what extent massage can cause pain on the way to relieve pain. Tengbjerg, while having a philosophical attitude toward the needs and needs of clients, told the group: “When you work shallow tissue, you can warm quickly.” But the deeper you are, the deeper you should go. It’s like falling into the ocean, when you get stuck in the ocean, you sink and when you’re at the bottom, you can’t do things quickly. ”

In the United States, massage has not been regulated for a short time and has been used as a cover for sexual work. Even today, jokes about happy endings still exist, which will infuriate the therapist. The terms “massage shop,” “massager” and “massager” are long-term euphemism, although laymen can use them unconsciously. “Phoebe also destroyed it in some way on ‘friends’ because she called herself a masseur,” Hoyme told me. “In the United States, we do not use the term because it is considered female prostitutes.”

But massage has become increasingly mainstream in North America – the field of strip malls, the affordable massage franchise has spread (massage, jealousy, the largest, owning nearly a thousand locations and offering subscription options), and a pillar of the fitness and wellness industry. (Many insurance companies cover massages for rehabilitation purposes.) Although new massage therapists may struggle to make ends meet – franchises don’t usually pay low salaries, demand is high. “There is a shortage of massage therapists,” Nordstrom, who is also the Chartered Hands and Stone Training Director, told me. In a recent Microsoft study of work that is most likely to be affected by generative AI, massage therapists ranked lowest in the lowest jobs with venous hybridists and organizers. Although Tengbjerg recently delivered a speech called “Future Massage Robot”, human touch seems irreplaceable at the moment. The pressure of the pandemic, especially boosting the entire industry. There are more than three hundred thousand licensed massage therapists in the United States, and the 2025 AMTA poll shows that most people are second-professions.

In Copenhagen, many competitors have confirmed this. Lito Orbase from Northern California showed me some meaningful tattoos: microphone and guitar, a koi, good luck, and a phoenix. “Phoenix is ​​about changing careers,” he said. “I work for a sprawling company, AT&T., so they have all these electives, one of which is massage therapy.” Orbase loves it and starts practicing friends. Later, A. T. & T. He was offered a severance payment, which was the money that could be professionally massaged. “I’ve been doing it ever since,” he said, taking a special course on fascial stretching therapy, developed to treat travel problems for professional athletes. “So I became a Level 3 stretching therapist, and the NFL team of the Raiders,” asked me if I wanted to work with them. I did it for a year and then they moved to Nevada.” Ivan Llundyk, a former Ukrainian EMT, told me, “After college, I was working in an ambulance, but I didn’t feel it was a job for my soul.” He ran a hookah bar for a while and then found happiness in a massage, and he thought he could visualize what the client needed. American Gabriel Gargari left his career after retreating in Ibiza and discovering Ke Ala Hoku or Pathway of the Stars, the form of a slow-sized traditional lomilomomi in Polynesia. He told me: “We had to learn these ancient principles and go in the Kahuna way. lomilomi involves a lot of forearm pressure and uses brushstrokes that travel through the entire length of the body at once. Gargari incorporates music from their clients’ ancestral background into their massage.

Several of my conversations took place during a Copenhagen hike early in the conference. People and their fellow countrymen (Krista Harris) began to unite their fellow Americans a few years ago – American massage, especially friendly – and laughed at themselves for introducing themselves to their competitors. Denmark feels almost ridiculously idyllic. Family and couple stroll in the gorgeous Tivoli Garden amusement park. The parked bicycle was unlocked. (“Everyone already has a bike here,” one local told me.) It was midnight season, when the joyous and joyful carnival stage, when open-air trucks were filled with newly graduated high school students, wearing white sailor-style hats, surround the town, tweeting and cheering. Locals are sentimental to the happy, drunken teen graduates who express their gratitude to the future of strangers. Not far from the harbour, young people gather in Copenhill, a towering Bjarke Ingels designed by garbage to energy plants with climbing walls on its exterior and a synthetic flower and grass ski on its side. A Danish guy in his thirties told me without hesitation: “I paid fifty percent of my tax revenue and I’m happy to pay more.”