Recently, almost completely out of the blue, my wife got a really stiff neck that caused discomfort for several days. She made a physio appointment but couldn't be seen for several days so I (completely untrained, and not knowing what I was doing) tried to do some massage to help.

The first time I think the benefits were negligible, but the second time - I don't know what I did - but she felt instant benefits and was feeling so much better.

My questions are:

1) given that I don't really know what I'm doing (other than rubbing knotty bits!), might I risk doing any harm? Am I better just leaving it to an expert?

2) if I wanted to learn just some basics that would enable me to help if this sort of thing recurred, where would be a good place to start?

Thanks for any help/advice you can give.

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