Best of Boston

1996 Best Massage, Swedish

Helen Cooper

Here’s a masseuse who can diagnose your lifestyle ills just by feeling your muscles. A keyboard jockey? She can tell from those ropy tangles in your forearm. Carry a heavy bag on your left? Those crooked shoulders are a dead giveaway. Cooper works to remedy the physical damage of modern living, and gives advice on how to cure bad habits that take their toll on your body. And it feels good, too.

Le Pli, 5 Bennett Street, Cambridge, 617-547-4081,