I saw a stretch assistant to gain 'extreme flexibility'. Did it work?

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I am scoping out in-high-demand "stretcher" Alison Eitner — her remarkable musculature, and her even more remarkable tattoos — the second I get through the door of her treatment room. It quickly becomes clear that this is nothing compared with what she is doing to me.

I haven't even got my T-shirt off before she has started. "Your neck is shortened," says Eitner, 29, in a ra-ta-tat-tat delivery that it can be hard to keep up with. "It's probably being compressed by tension in your shoulders." Pause. "It's probably this which is causing your migraines. We will know once I get you on the bed."

It's my migraines, which only began a handful of years ago, that I have come to Eitner — herself a