Reference
Remedial massage, explained properly
Most of what is written about remedial massage online is either an advertisement or a guess. This is our attempt at something better: what the treatment is, how it actually works, what the research genuinely supports, and what your health fund will and will not pay for. Where the evidence is weak, we say so.
How to read these pages
- Every claim carries a source. Numbered markers in the text link to the reference at the foot of the page, and every one of them opens. The full library is on the sources page.
- We say when the evidence is thin. Massage helps a lot of people, and the research behind it is more mixed than the industry usually admits. Both of those things are true, and pretending otherwise would make this section worthless.
- Rules change, so pages carry a date. Anything involving health funds is checked and stamped, because those rules move at least twice a year.
- This is general information. It is not advice about your own body or your own cover. For anything specific, talk to your GP or your fund.
Money and cover
Reviewed by our lead remedial massage therapist, a member of the Australian Natural Therapists Association.
19 sources in the library so far, all public. Browse them.