April 2017 | Business View Magazine

128 129 A ccording to the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), in 1997, only 8 percent of American adults had had a massage that year. How things have changed. The AMTA’s 2016 American Massage Therapy Association consumer survey recently revealed that somewhere between 19 and 25 percent of all adult Americans – roughly 44 to 58 million of us - received at least one massage between July 2015 and July 2016. Fifty percent reported that it was for medical or health reasons such as pain management, sore- ness, stiffness, or spasms, injury rehabilita- Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa Health, wellness, and beauty & Hand & Stone MASSAGE & facial spa