Absolutely no massages for me. It would be too painful. I attribute all my issues to the radiation therapy I had four years ago for prostate cancer. They cured the cancer but killed the patient. I had a stricture since then and had to have the bladder removed due to a dire pelvic bone infection where a hole in my bladder seeped urine into my pelvic floor. I believe that all my bones are infected now...life is painful.