It's six in the evening and you've just closed your laptop after your last video call. You get up from your chair and there it is: your shoulders higher than they should be, your neck slightly forward, your lower back feeling like it's been begging to change position all day and hasn't been able to. It's been a normal day at the office or working from home. Not a single strain, not a single awkward movement, nothing you can point to. Just hours and hours in the same position.
Does this sound familiar? It's probably the most common feeling we hear at the center, and it doesn't have to have been a particularly tough day for it to appear. It just takes a few days to accumulate.
Why is the office body repeated so much?
It's not that desk work is hard in the same way that lifting heavy objects or doing intense physical work is. It's that it's always the same stance, For many hours at a time, the body isn't designed to stay still for so long. Your head leans forward toward the screen, your shoulders rise toward your ears without you even realizing it, and your lower back loses support as you gradually sink into the chair throughout the day.
In teleworking it is usually even more pronounced: without the commutes of the office day —going to a room, going down for a coffee, walking to the bus stop— the consecutive hours in front of the screen are longer than it seems.
What you usually notice
- Shoulders raised, as if you can't quite lower them no matter how hard you try.
- Tension at the base of the neck and the back of the head, especially at the end of the day
- Lower back pain when you get up, which improves slightly when walking
- General feeling of "shrunken" body after many consecutive video calls
- Tiredness that is not explained solely by the workload, but also by how you have been sitting
Important: This is a common feeling of well-being associated with holding certain positions, not a diagnosis. If the discomfort is intense, does not improve over several days, or is accompanied by other symptoms, consult your healthcare professional first.
What does a relaxing massage do in this case?
For office staff, what usually fits best is a job immersive and continuous rhythm, It's not localized to a single point: the neck, shoulders, upper back, and lower back are treated as a whole, not as a list of points to be "fixed" separately. This is precisely the approach of relaxing massage.
We use a pressure scale of 1 to 10, and for this type of desktop tension, the point that usually works best is between 6 and 7: enough to make the work noticeable, without reaching an uncomfortable pressure. And as in any session, you can say so at any time: "a little less pressure here," "that's fine, stay a little longer," "I'd prefer we didn't talk much." There's no need to wait until the end to adjust it.
If it turns out there's a very specific area—for example, a particularly strained trapezius muscle, or a fixed point in the lower back that won't budge—then the following might be a better fit for you: deep tissue massage, with a more localized focus in that area. If you're unsure which one to choose, tell us what you think when you book and we'll help you decide.
Between sessions: breaks that help
Massage helps, but an office body is built day by day, so it needs daily care too. None of this requires extra time or changing your routine, just small adjustments within the one you already have.
- Change position every 30-40 minutesGet up, even if it's just for 30 seconds, between one meeting and the next.
- Screen at eye level and elbows close to 90 degrees: prevent the neck from moving forward looking for the screen.
- Gentle shoulder rotations, 10 forwards and 10 backwards, each time you get up for water.
- Lateral neck stretch: ear towards the shoulder without lifting it, 20-30 seconds on each side.
- Last 10 minutes of the day without being glued to your phone: gives the body some leeway before moving from one screen to another.
None of these gestures replace a massage session nor is it medical advice: they are general self-care habits that many people find useful between sessions.
How often is it advisable?
If the stress is temporary—a week of heavy computer use before a deadline—one session is usually enough to notice a difference. But if the pattern repeats itself week after week, as is the case for most people who work sitting down, what works best is consistency: many people with desk-related stress tell us that a session every three or four weeks suits them, no more frequently and without letting too much time accumulate in between. That's what our program is designed for. four-session bonus.
You can book directly on the website of relaxing massage or of the deep tissue massage, where we explain step by step how the session will be. And if it's your first time at the center, here you have Everything that happens in a first session, step by step.
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