I have been a massage therapist for 20 years and never cease to be amazed at the benefits and healing that it brings to my patients. These days I work only with people who have pain and I find that massage, performed appropriately, significantly reduces or even stops muscle and nerve pain. Massage was once routinely prescribed in hospitals to aid healing and we nearly all do it to each other without thinking. We stroke babies, friends, children, lovers and even our pets. We even stroke ourselves, with skin creams, soothing all those millions of little nerve endings which crave attention. 'Roma...