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Wood therapy is a vigorous massage technique that utilizes wooden, handheld tools, such as rolling pins and vacuum-suction cups. People also refer to wood therapy as maderotherapy or maderoterapia.

Massage therapists and business owners spoke out against Santa Barbara’s proposed new industry rules at the City Council's ...