Things that massage therapists do that annoy you as a client

[Lovely Anderson <3]

For me it is
-bad breath and breathing it down on me when I'm supine
-when i am seated on the edge of the table and the therapist is behind working my head/shoulders and they catch the top/front of your head with their oily hands meaning my hair is now all greasy!!
-on cold days not warming up the muscles enough before doing deep work

the hand on head thing is so basic, it is really easy to do it effectively with just you thumb and index finger.

 

[Alex ?]

Just spotted this...am guilty of holding my breath although I sometimes don't notice I am doing it - just as I don't want to breathe on clients as I am quite short so can be quite close at times (sorry!)
For me the worst things are hands that smell...,bad breath(last nights wine/cheese and onion crisps-have experienced both...), leaving the room to answer the phone-just as bad as having a mobile going in the room, not even doing any sort of consultation(?!?!) and last but not least....therapists who SIGH LOUDLY....I love massage, don't find it boring in the slightest but apparantly some do! SS

 

[maliboo_girl]

I sometimes find I'm taking a big breath, which I hope doesn't sound like a sigh! It's not boredom, it's because I sometimes concentrate hard on a repetitive movement and don't breathe properly.

 

[Pompal 09.]

Well, for what it's worth. You don't get a good massage if your covered with anything at all. Or if you've got undies on. Fact. Any sort of towel re-arranging screws up the flow of the massage, and I don't like being massaged in installments or area by area, rather like massaging by numbers. I like a full body massage from top to bottom with long flowing efflurage strokes, randomly is preferable, and it's impossible to do this with any covering or undies on. And I don't like bits of my body being 'missed' because it might be considered to intimate. I can always tell when a massage is how I like it, I fall to sleep.