The pros and cons of massage tables - do you know them? If you're a seasoned recipient of massage, you may prefer getting it on a massage table - or not. If you're a man who stumbled across my blog and immersed himself in its pearls of wisdom, I'll tell you the pros and cons of massage tables. And which option you'd get if you came for a massage to me.

The pros of massage tables - the only one pro

that I see is not for you, but for the masseuse. If it is for you too, then indirectly. Only in the sense that if the masseuse is 100% comfortable while massaging you, she'll transfer her comfort and grounded energy to you through her touch. And that will strengthen the healing of the massage. But I said indirectly. And if you ever get to know me, you'll find out that I don't waste words. The pro of massage tables is very definitely for the therapist. Massage tables were invented to help the masseuse keep a straight back and be able to walk around you for easy access to every part of your body. Her straight back will not hurt, thus she will be more comfortable.... And be able to apply solid pressure in certain movements during the massage. But that's about it.

The cons of massage tables

• they are narrow and high. That forces you to lie very still and constrainedly in order not to destabilise the table. The masseuse's movements and mainly pressures destabilize it enough, let alone you wanting to move a limb! Few tables are comfortably wide even for a heavy person! And even the wide ones are high. Hence a heavy or less mobile person can find climbing on the table difficult.
• they are not rock-solidly stable. That makes you feel like you will fall. And even though falling is highly unlikely, feelings are not logical and this feeling at the back of the mind is not exactly relaxing!
• the massage tables that have a hole for the face are the worst, because gravity does its magic whether we like it or not and after a while of motionless lying your face will feel like being sucked out through the hole. That can hurt. A massage is to induce relaxation and destroy pain, not create pain!

Massaging on the bed

is not good either. This is because the mattress absorbs most of the pressure of massage movements. The pressures are to compress the deep tissues and stimulate an influx of blood and lymph into them. Thus the only option that remains and I find the best by far is to massage on a massage and physio mat on the floor. Can you deduce why? If not, never mind. You can always experience the pros of this with me.