There are many forms of massage or soft tissue manipulation. At Mom's Therapy and Herbal Center, Rady Mom uses a variety of techniques according to the person's needs, and often mixes and combines techniques. Massage can be fast and vigorous particularly before (to tone up the muscles), and after (to relax the muscles) sport or any heavy muscle work. This also disperses lactic acid produced by the muscle activity. Massage needs to be slow and deep to work through more long standing muscular tension.

Rady is also trained in traditional Chinese and Shiatsu pressure point techniques which he tends to combine to enhance the relaxing effect on the muscles. Massage can be used to relax the person before manipulation of the spine, and conversely, sometimes, manipulation can help reduce the tension in the muscles before massage.