It is about the technique used. Some times it is just placing the warm stones in strategic places. I have a set of the stones you heat up and there are times they work well and times when they do not work so well. I think part of the success or failure is if you are able to relax enough and just let it go. Music and lighting also play apart. I have had massages that were painful and really did not help, just to much muscle kneading to vigourously. Other massages have been good, right amount of pressure and so soothing.

Thanks for posting this, very interesting.

Gentle hugs, Sherrall

Yes, I have had hot stone massages, they are the best!!! I bought a gift certificate for my husband to go!

I personally did not like it when I had a hot stone message I don\'t know if there was an issue or not but they burned my skin, I actually had a couple spots with small blisters so it could have been that the person screwed up or my skin is too sensitive,, either way I won\'t try it again.

I go on the 11th to get stoned! :) I booked a chiro appt first, then a 1 hour hot stone massage and then a 1 hour Reflexology massage!~ I\'ll be in heaven!!!! I got the gift certificates for my birthday from my mom and daughter.

Hot stone massage, if done properly, is brilliant!!!
Ladydragonfly you should not have been burnt - that is a really bad operator!!!

The advantage stone has over traditional, is that the heat relaxes the muscle without being "aggravated" as happens with traditional.

Carrie, I am soooooo jealous!!!!
I have been looking at doing something like that, but it\'s so expensive! Still, I am saving my pennies and will get there yet :)

I\'ve had the hot stone massage, and I loved it.I wasn\'t pain free for days afterward, but it was a leser pain. How I wish I could have a massage again. However, that has to wait, as I just (2 days ago) left an emotionally abusive relaionship...moved in with my sis...and am STILL unemployed. When I go back to work that will be one of the first things I do for myself.

I am definately going to start saving my pennies, too. It sounds like it was a good experience for most of you, too. Ladydragon, I think I would not like it either, if I got burned. How awful! Aud1956, I am so sorry you are going thru such a hard time right now. My mother was married to my dad for 17 years and he beat her A LOT. Terrible experience for mom, but also for us kids. It is definately a bad thing to see your mom beat so often and then worry that you would come home from school to find that he had beat her to death. Fortunately, that never happened,but more than once we would come home to find she had been beat...again. I am 51 years old and still it stands out in my memory like a sore thumb. We had a friend at this time whose father actually DID beat her mom to death. I think he only got like 8 years. Crazy, huh. So,one word for those of you that are staying in an abusive marriage for the kids....don\'t! Sorry all, didn\'t mean to go off like that! Thanks for al the replies. Have a good day. Cheryl

I had this done about two months ago it was amazing!!!!! I would do it all the time if it wasn\'t so expensive. (luckily a new place is offering $35 ones and they are really good)....I am not at all sensitive to heat so I can\'t say if it would be too hot for someone else...it gave me a ton of relief.

Have never had a hot stone massage...heat in general makes me feel pretty awsome tho !!

Regular massages have left me feeling pretty weird too...sick, weak...sore...but then the Next Day I feel pretty awsome...drinking alot of water, and keeping up with the massages by a Theraputic Massage therapist...not a fluff massage helps Immensely !! sometimes it takes a day or 2 to Flush those nasty Toxins !!
Hugs !