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What is a on-site massage?
While most people think of an on-site
massage as any massage performed at the patient’s location, this
isn’t exactly true. Most of the time, the term “on-site massage”
refers strictly to a seated massage that is performed onsite (this form
of massage is also known as a chair massage). There are, however, table
massages that some massage therapists perform on-site, but they are a
lot less common (read more about on-site table massages below).
An on-site massage is typically a massage that is performed with the
patient seated in a massage chair as opposed to lying on a massage
table. It is a much quicker, much less intimate form of massage than
most methods. This is because the massage chair is often brought to the
patient at their location, the patient’s clothes stay on the entire
time, and to many people it doesn’t feel as personal as lying on a
table does.
It is not a type of massage therapy that is focused on spirituality.
Instead, on-site massage focuses all of its energy on simply relieving
immediate stress and tension in the body. Also, the main detail of
on-site massage (aside from that it is done seated) is that it is
on-site. This means that the massage therapist comes to the patient with
their massage chair (or table in some cases) and performs the massage
there. This makes it easier and more convenient for the patient.
What is the history of an
on-site massage?
Created in the 1980’s, on-site massage
is one of the more recently developed forms of massage. It was formed by
David Palmer who discovered that there were not enough patients to go
around for all the massage therapists at his institute (he had recently
taken over the Amma Institute of Traditional Japanese Massage). He
realized that there were many reasons for this shortage of patients,
such as the following: most people didn’t have the time that it took
to go get a massage, traditional table massages themselves took too long
for many rushed people, and some people found table massages to be a
little too intimate.
With all of this in mind, he went on to create the on-site massage, and
later the massage chair (this chair was designed so that, when the
patient sits in it, it relieves much of the stress and strain that can
be developed by sitting for long periods in traditional chairs). The
on-site massage was different than traditional forms of massage in three
key ways: it could be done anywhere—at the patient’s office or home,
in a mall, wherever it was necessary; it took less time than a
traditional massage; and it was less intimate and personal than a
traditional table massage.
These differences appealed to many people, including large corporation
owners, and the on-site massage became fairly popular rather quickly.
Now, many companies have regular on-site massages for their employees,
many malls have on-site massage stations, and many individuals hire
massage therapists to perform on-site massages on a regular basis.
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