What’s the best type of Massage?

To tell you the truth it  ‘aint what you do, it’s the way that you do it’,   It is important to ask your therapist  if they can combine different treatment approaches for different clients, or the same client at different points in their pain cycle or are they just a one trick pony?   Sometimes you need deep therapeutic work and other times very light touch. I know as a client myself that I need something different every treatment I have. (Which is every 2 weeks, by the way!)  More importantly I think,  is to ask,  how often does your Therapist have a treatment?  I am constantly amazed, certainly here in the UK,  when asking that question, that the therapist often admits to ‘not as often as they would like’ to ‘never’!  So if they never feel it, how can they have any idea how you feel on that table or how good this stuff is?  Come on, do you ever see a hairdresser with a birds-nest hairdo, beautician with bad skin, or a nail technician with chipped nails?  This is serious stuff, so please leave Massage Therapy to those few serious solely dedicated professionals, who can bring it the professional courtesy it so obviously deserves.