I have been going to massage therapy for several years. Decadent it's not - I have enough muscle knots that it's generally painful, but the therapists are excellent at working through it, so I sleep really well that night, and am better for the rest of the week.

It IS expensive. But I look at it this way: when I have a headache (and for me, unless I've been out in the sun and got a sun-glare headache, almost all headaches are about stress & muscle knots), how much would I pay to get it to go away? How much is being pain-free worth?

I look at people I know who are in chronic pain (chronic pain. That SCARES me) and I keep going to my every-three-weeks massage appointments. They are expensive. And they work.