Accessing the memory and corresponding emotions associated with physical and emotional trauma can be assisted through massage therapy. By means of various bodywork techniques, many breakthroughs have been made with patients suffering from mental illness who have not responded to classic analysis. Massage therapy stimulates awareness, creates integration, and has become an important part of the growth and transformation movements in this country. People are fed up with the old answers. They are beginning to realize that illness does not just drop out of the sky and hit them over the head.
Health is an ongoing process.
In 1997 there were over 270. There are 5689 spas in the US, and they generate 5 billion in revenue each year. In 1999 consumers made 88.6 million visits to spas. That means that every 5 years, the number of spas doubles. Employment in spas has doubled since 1997.