What is the difference between a bodyworker and a massage therapist?

I still wonder why I am OK with a physical therapist or physician touching me but yet massage doesn't appeal to me.

I really like to get and give hugs, especially to those I am close to. (I tend not to hug strangers, as some people do.)

I have never had a pedicure, but they squik me out. I was at the mall one day with two casual, soccer mom friends and they decided they wanted to get pedicures. I went to the shop with them but couldn't do it. I watched while they got their pedicures. I hated the whole experience--it had a yucky colonial feel to it, kind of British imperalist or something. It was just yuck.

Ha ha, I think I have a lot of hang-ups.

I am intrigued by the term "bodyworker" though. Maybe that would appeal to me more than massage. My T has told me that many of today's cutting edge therapies blend bodywork with psychotherapy. velcro, thanks for all the information. What you wrote says bodywork includes massage, and also acupuncture. My first T was primarily an acupuncturist, I believe. But she never offered this to me. We did only counseling. Maybe she didn't like to mix modalities. (Or maybe I didn't need acupuncture.) I don't think she did any other touch type therapies though, so not sure she would qualify as a bodyworker.

Interest thread, chaotic. I am intrigued by these therapies but kind of repelled as well.