It’s not about us, it’s about you
Here’s what you’ll find here
Proven Massage Techniques To:
*Relieve pain
*Improve health
*Activate the immune system
* Improve mood
*Reduce stress
*Improve sleep
*Enhance fitness and athletic performance
*Help friends and pets feel better fast
Our Mission is to help you use your hands to enhance your health, fitness, and happiness, and reduce your pain. If you want to apply your fingers to any of those goals you're in the right place. We've been at it for more than a decade through the book Self-Massage for Athletes and around the world in YouTube videos at Feel Better Fast.
This website is new and with your help will evolve into a revolutionary resource for well being. We plan to add a blog, more videos, a daily massage email, more massage tool reviews, and much more. Please let us know if there is anything you would like to see, do, or learn here.
For now, we hope you’ll stay awhile and play awhile. Have a look around. You’ll find massage videos to ease your pain, improve your health, and make you happier. If you’re interested in massagers we have some recommendations. And we have the new ebook Self-Massage for Athletes to help you go deeper. Thanks and keep in touch.
The marriage of health and fitness
“What is essential is invisble to the eyes.”
We owe a ginormous debt of gratitude to Tiffany Field, the godmother of modern massage research. Much of the scientific evidence for the health and analgesic benefits attributable to massage come from her research. During her storied career, she conducted more than a hundred studies and published four-hundred research papers demonstrating the efficacy of massage to improve health and reduce pain. She founded the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine; the first facility in the world devoted solely to the scientific study of touch. After forty years of researching the health benefits of massage, she observed:
“Studies show that self-massage has all the positive effects of regular massage, especially when people do it daily to get a greater dose of touch.”
It’s hard to talk about SMFH&F without at least mentioning Rich Poley. As an inveterate cheapskate, Rich learned self-massage while training for his first Ironman Triathlon in 2001. The daily dose of massage got him through the grueling event and revealed a mysterious power in his fingers. He was so intrigued by the discovery and fitness benefits self-massage brought he wrote Self-Massage for Athletes. The book illustrated the 7-simple-stroke-technique used here. Via the book, workshops, and YouTube videos, Rich has helped thousands of people throughout the world learn to use their hands to feel better fast.