We encourage you to talk to your doctor about getting a prescription for massage therapy. Especially if you have an injury or are in rehabilitation with your physical therapist.
Massage therapy is a great compliment to physical therapy. But it can also stand alone as a valuable method to bring you back to health. There are many conditions that have been shown to respond better to manual therapies, like massage therapy, than to therapeutic exercises that a PT would prescribe. For example, we know that patients with osteoarthritis of the hip do better with manual therapy than exercise therapy.