Medical Massage addresses very specific soft tissue complaints and pain syndromes by utilizing specialized techniques like trigger point therapy and deep muscle stripping. Areas of soft tissue complaints are neck, shoulders, back, hips, knees, and feet or whiplash, inter-scapula entrapment, rotator cuff complaints, low back pain including piriformis syndrome and sciatica pain and planter fasciitis. Massage therapists that offer medical massage require a great deal of additional training experience.