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The short answer
Thai massage uses acupressure and stretching through clothing. Oil massage uses long gliding strokes with warm oil. Deep tissue uses slow, heavy pressure on specific muscle knots. All three are worked on your own bed. Pick Thai for stiffness, oil for relaxation, and deep tissue for a persistent painful area.
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The short version
Thai moves you. Oil soothes you. Deep tissue works on one thing at a time.
That is genuinely most of what you need to decide, and it is worth having in mind before you look at a price list, because the most expensive treatment on any menu is rarely the right answer to a specific complaint.
Pressure is not the same as effectiveness
People frequently assume heavier is better and book deep tissue for a general ache. It is a targeted treatment rather than a stronger one, worked slowly into a small area, and spending an hour of it on a body with nothing much wrong is a waste of the hour.
The reverse mistake is booking a gentle oil massage for a knot that has been there for three months. The strokes are not designed to reach it and you will finish the hour with the knot intact.
Match the treatment to the problem rather than to a sense of how serious the problem feels.
What the evidence actually says
It is worth being honest about the research, because massage marketing tends not to be. The NIH's National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health finds that the risk of harm from massage is low, and that evidence for many specific therapeutic claims is limited or inconsistent.
For chronic low back pain in particular, the strength of the evidence has been assessed as low. That does not mean an hour will not help you. It means the confident clinical claims made across this industry are not well supported.
Our position is that a massage is worth booking because it reliably feels good and reliably loosens a stiff body, not because it treats a diagnosis. If you have a condition that needs treating, see a doctor.
Choosing by what is wrong
Stiff all over and cannot turn your head properly: traditional Thai.
Tired, tense, want to sleep: oil, or aromatherapy if you want the scented version.
One shoulder that has hurt for weeks: deep tissue, and say exactly where when you book.
Neck and upper back from a laptop: office syndrome, which is deep tissue narrowed to that region for the whole hour.
Legs after walking or running: deep tissue, and say you want it on the legs, because the default assumption everywhere is back and shoulders.
How much pressure to ask for
There is no scale and no standard, so a number is useless. What works is describing the sensation you want: firm but comfortable, or right at the edge, or please stop before it hurts. Any therapist can work with that.
The useful test during a session is your breathing. If you are holding your breath through a stroke, the pressure is too high, whatever your tolerance for it. Tissue under a body that is bracing does not release, so heavy work on a tense customer achieves less than moderate work on a relaxed one.
Ask for an adjustment early rather than at the halfway point. Therapists calibrate in the first few minutes and then settle, and a correction at minute five costs you nothing while a correction at minute thirty costs you half the treatment.
Deep tissue in particular should be uncomfortable rather than painful, and the discomfort should fade while she is still working the spot. If it sharpens instead, that is worth saying out loud immediately.
What the next day feels like
Deep tissue can leave you sore for a day or two, in the way a hard workout does. That is normal and it is not a sign anything went wrong, though it is a reason not to book it the evening before something physically demanding.
Thai more often produces a stiff-then-loose pattern: slightly tender the next morning, noticeably freer by the afternoon. The stretches reach tissue that has not been asked to lengthen in a while.
Oil rarely leaves anything at all beyond a good night's sleep, which is part of why it is the safe default for a first booking or a late one.
Drink water, do not plan anything strenuous for a few hours, and if soreness is still sharpening after two days rather than fading, that is a doctor's question rather than a massage question.
Where the other treatments fit
The three above cover most bookings, but the menu is wider than that and a couple of the others are worth knowing about. Aromatherapy is an oil massage with a scented blend rather than a separate technique, chosen mostly by people who want to sleep afterwards.
Foot reflexology works only below the knee and it is the one treatment you can take fully dressed, sitting in a chair, while doing something else. It is the easiest thing to book when you are short of both time and space.
Four hands is two therapists on one person at once, priced accordingly. It belongs in the occasion column rather than the remedy column, and anybody booking it to fix a shoulder has misread what it does.
None of these replaces the three main choices. If you are new to the menu, pick from Thai, oil and deep tissue first and treat the rest as variations to try later.
Source
The US National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health reports that the risk of harm from massage is low, while the evidence for many specific benefits remains limited.
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIHLink checked 2026-08-24
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