Aiken, I'd like to tell you about a little known gem. For some time, I have suffered from knotted muscles in my neck, shoulders and back. Then sciatic pain started. I was facing a 20 hr each way rode trip. After searching for a massage therapist, I happened upon Lara Bridges at Aiken Center for Neuromuscular Therapy. My experience with massage was the relaxing kind and a couple of deep tissue ones. She is different. She asked questions and went to work. As the only neuromuscular massage therapist AND practitioner in the area her massage is medically based. She only went to where the pain was or the area that was causing the pain and found issues I didn't know I had. On the first visit, she worked her magic on me and that 20 hr drive and 12 day vacation was pain free. I've now been going to her since the middle of June. She has moved 2 muscles that were out of place, impinging a nerve and causing pain. This is a way to deal with pain without drugs. I can't recommend her enough. read more