Massages and preventative maintenance
Aug. 24th, 2025 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99(I am aware of the irony that this is being posted by someone who is 4 months overdue for her 6-monthly back massage, and yes, my right upper back/shoulder is feeling it. It was because my previous massage place decided to mess me around over my last appointment, and now I'm looking for another. I may have found one.)
The roots of this post go to pre-COVID ago.
Sitting at work with two then colleagues and I explain I am taking the day off the day after (or the next week, I can't remember) to get a massage and get my hair cut. Cue much "ooh check you", as though it was some great luxury, while I knew how much their clothes cost. (Brand whose clothes I like but are not designed for short people)
And I do get the logic, it is a fair bit of money to spend for 1 hour. On the other hand, my job is spent sitting down bent over a computer, I do an idiot lopsided sport as my main source of exercise and if I can, I go to the gym 3 times a week (I almost never can but ...). Quite frankly, I need to be unpretzeled regularly.
I also think getting regular messages, and some of the pretty major back reworking one of my Birmingham Fencing Club coaches put in, is the reason I am the only person in my department who doesn't have back pain.
Your car gets an MOT, you go to the dentist and opticians before there's a problem, how is a massage not the same sort of preventative maintenance?
The roots of this post go to pre-COVID ago.
Sitting at work with two then colleagues and I explain I am taking the day off the day after (or the next week, I can't remember) to get a massage and get my hair cut. Cue much "ooh check you", as though it was some great luxury, while I knew how much their clothes cost. (Brand whose clothes I like but are not designed for short people)
And I do get the logic, it is a fair bit of money to spend for 1 hour. On the other hand, my job is spent sitting down bent over a computer, I do an idiot lopsided sport as my main source of exercise and if I can, I go to the gym 3 times a week (I almost never can but ...). Quite frankly, I need to be unpretzeled regularly.
I also think getting regular messages, and some of the pretty major back reworking one of my Birmingham Fencing Club coaches put in, is the reason I am the only person in my department who doesn't have back pain.
Your car gets an MOT, you go to the dentist and opticians before there's a problem, how is a massage not the same sort of preventative maintenance?
