Giving yourself a back massage is impossible, much like keeping your eyes open while sneezing or reading an entire book. Give spines a rest with today’s Groupon to Oakland Massage Therapy. Choose from the following options:

• For $35, you get your choice of a 50-minute Swedish, deep-tissue, or sports massage (an $80 value).
• For $59, you get a 50-minute deluxe massage (a $145 value).
• For $79, you get a 80-minute super massage (a $180 value).<p>

The deluxe and super massages come with hot towels, aromatherapy, salt-glow therapy, and hot stones.

The certified massage therapists at Oakland Massage Therapy ply away muscle tension with practiced strokes and spa-like add-ons. Swedish massage stimulates circulation and detoxification with gliding massage strokes, and sports massage helps speed recovery as it focuses on areas of inflammation, tension, and aloofness caused by unrequited pats on the back. The deluxe and super massages combine fluid effleurage and deep-tissue pressure to knots with four muscle-melting add-ons, including aromatherapy and the penetrating heat of hot stones. Therapists gently burnish backs with a salt scrub to remove dead skin cells and apply hot towels to uncoil muscles into sinews as relaxed as a jack-in-the-box in a world without toddlers. Services last a full 60 or 90 minutes, with 10 minutes designated to undressing and dressing.