Masseuse offers £90 treatment with steel bar but some bruised clients walk out

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28 January 2025 at 4:21 am

A therapist is offering £90 massages using a steel bar which can be so painful that some clients have walked out. Rick Howarth, 40, says clients fly from as far away as the United Arab Emirates for his hour long treatment which he claims ‘get deeper’ into knots and scare tissue. His instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilisation (IASTM) treatment sees him firmly press a surgical steel bar up and down his patients' bodies to "get deeper" into knots and scar tissue. But he admits 12 clients have walked out of his massage parlour in Bolton, Lancashire, UK during treatment in recent years.

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