Hard, ropey muscle texture is not as useful a sign in massage therapy as you might think. Of course it matters sometimes, but it’s almost comically overemphasized. “You’re really tight” is mostly meaningless and misleading, a simplistic justification for the service: you are tight, therefore you need me to loosen you. But someone wisely pointed out to me that this emphasis on tightness isn’t all coming from massage therapists! Patients really like to have their subjective experience...
