A therapist is offering £90 massages using a steel bar which can be so painful that some clients have walked out.<br /><br />Rick Howarth, 40, says clients fly from as far away as the United Arab Emirates for his hour long treatment which he claims ‘get deeper’ into knots and scare tissue.<br /><br />His instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilisation (IASTM) treatment sees him firmly press a surgical steel bar up and down his patients' bodies to "get deeper" into knots and scar tissue.<br /><br />But he admits 12 clients have walked out of his massage parlour in Bolton, Lancashire, UK during treatment in recent years.
