After realizing my range of motion in my neck became a little limited, and experiencing somewhat chronic shoulder pain due to stress and alot of driving, I went to get a series of deep tissue massages after several years of not having any massage. I thought it would take "years" to work through, but I found a good person and after 4 sessions she worked through it where I had no glitches/trigger points and I had my range of motion back in my neck. It was painful in the beginning. She used hot stone massage as well, where she would lay the stones on my back and neck and then she would also use the hot stones with hot oil to massage the problems areas as a prelude to the deep tissue work. The hot stone massage really relaxed those target muscles she wanted to work on and allowed her to go deeper. So now I only go in when I need to. Once and a while I schedule an entire session with hot stone. It feels great on the legs when you've been riding hard.