I saw the great reviews and felt confident coming in for my first massage. now I'm honestly surprised they were so good.
let me tell you I was very sorry I tried with Mitch.
he started the massage completely DRY and digging painfully, no working up to it. Other sites online say "working light in the beginning is essential" but he sure didn't!! I had to ask him for oil. then he leaned his weight on his bony f*cking elbow over my ribs and ran his elbow over my ribs like a xylophone. I was in so much pain I couldn't talk.
once I caught my breath I felt the need to tell him that "ribs don't need elbows, there's not much muscle there".
But he just said "there's muscle there" (duh we know that) and proceeded to start digging his fucking elbow over my ribs on the left so I had to physically stop him with my hand. He apologized but nothing could take away the pain, even his bony painful hands lightly running over the elbowed areas.
he would just keep talking for most of the session and also talking kind of loudly. The exaggerared sounds he made when digging too hard into me were kind of annoying. it took me off my center and was distracting.
The music he played included hotel California and Eye of the Tiger... not really relaxing .....He kept hurting me beyond just some discomfort, and he pressed on my lower back despite my notes explaining I have lordosis (so basically he was making my curvature worse). It didn't help me at all it made my lower back more impacted. I had to actually rotate my pelvis to avoid more compaction. I had to keep asking him for massage oil throughout the entire session. it was DRY AND PAINFUL. It was a very sour experience like honestly the right person knows "no pain no gain" doesn't apply to massage. That's a bad train of thinking. MASSAGE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO HURT BAD FOR IT TO WORK. How the fk can you relax if you're in pain the whole time????? He kept pushing me past my limits, but at the time it seemed like most of the pain was just on that edge, and it was my first time so I didn't know what to expect. Honestly this wasn't my fault. Then the guy pulls on my nerve-damaged arm, it was just unnecessary. On the right all it did was pull my arm out of its socket a bit, but he wasn't looking at my shoulder. I am double jointed and he squeezed my hand so hard it hurt just flat out hurt and my right shoulder temporarily came off its socket, It was on my notes I have CRPS on my left arm. So he didn't acknowledge my notes too well either. It was just unnecessary. He called these extremely painful or pulling movements "tricks". I was hoping for a quiet, slippery cream or hot oil palms gliding over my knots. When I paid I still tipped the guy and even picked him up to psychologically feel in control again. I can't believe such a little guy can have such axe like hands. He should be a karate instructor not offer massage. he was WAY TOO HARSH like common sense dude I'm not a 500 lb guy please take it easy. He also dug hard into my skull at the end. Why would you press hard into skull bone with no trigger points????? He just had no common sense. And he had no gauge for intensity. He was coming after my ribs not only on the contours but also the fragile "flying ribs" with a single elbow, come on dude BIG NO NO it was a terrible experience. He's probably used to big burly male clients not a soft female. How could he have so many good reviews!
I had to keep asking him to take it easy, but he seems to have a sheer lack of feeling what he's doing. Eventually he distinguished between tolerable discomfort and bad pain, but by then he already made me experience lots and lots of pain. Who wants to pay for pain? Now I feel like I fell down two flights of stairs and don't give me that "it's supposed to hurt bullcrap" no it's not read this:
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