What is the history of an on-site massage?
Created in the 1980s, 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 didnt 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 a
