Best of Boston

2001 Best Massage

Backworks

You can go to a luxurious, candlelit spa where they’ll charge you a C-note to slather lavender ointment on your aching back, or you can go somewhere where licensed therapists will actually help get to the source of the problem. Enter Backworks, where serious muscle healing, soft-tissue tretament, and stress reduction are the foundation for easing a bona fide injury or soothing the aches that result from simple daily stress. After just one intense hour of deep-tissue massage, we left in a physical state we haven’t known since childhood: utterly care-, stress-, and knot-free.

34 Batterymarch St., Boston, 617-451-2225, backworksinc.com/