Lumbar pain can have many causes, including poor posture, pent-up tension, and linebackers constantly requesting piggyback rides. Take a load off with today's Groupon: for $40, you get a one-hour therapeutic massage (a $70 value) and a take-home bath soak (a $10 value) at Therapeutic Concepts in Flower Mound (an $80 total value).

Therapeutic Concepts' owner Sherri Chapman, whose sports-massage prowess was previously employed to assuage the aches and pains of members of the Dallas Cowboys, leads a team of licensed massage therapists and medical massage practitioners who target the source of clients' pain and knead it into submission. During custom therapeutic massages, the massage therapist gently manipulates muscles' top layers, incorporating occasional stretching techniques and ice-dancing routines as she sees fit. The salutary strokes help increase joint flexibility and range of motion, easing lower-back pain, sports injuries, and chronic stiffness as a result of fibromyalgia. The therapeutic massages also thwart headaches, cooling craniums without gluing ice packs to eyebrows. At home, soak away stress with Therapeutic Concepts' homemade bath elixir, made with epsom salt, essential oils, and a touch of eucalyptus or lavender.