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Medical Massage Therapist Profile – Meagen

Body Mechanics - Wednesday March 31, 2021

Body Mechanics Orthopedic Massage is proud to bring you a profile on another new New York licensed massage therapist that has recently joined our team, Meagen! If you’re suffering from from chronic pain, stuff joints or have had a crick in your neck for a few months, medical massage therapy with Meagen might be for […]

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Sports Massage Therapist Profile – Alex

Body Mechanics - Wednesday March 10, 2021

Body Mechanics NYC is proud to add Alex to our wonderful team. Anytime we hire a new therapist, we like to provide a little profile so you can get the 411 on getting to know them! You can check out a more formal Massage Therapist bio for Alex here. If you have any questions please […]

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Why This New York Massage Therapist Will Probably Wear a Mask for the Rest of her Massage Career

Body Mechanics - Saturday February 27, 2021

Mask Wearing as a Massage Therapist When the pandemic hit New York City last year, I started wearing a mask when practicing massage in the last days before we closed. In my reasoning, even though the government said masks were not necessary, from a health care perspective it made sense to me. As a medical […]

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Science-Based Educators for Massage Therapy

Body Mechanics - Sunday February 7, 2021

Body Mechanics’ own Beret Loncar was recently featured in an article in Massage & Fitness Magazine, which highlighted some of the top educators in the field of massage therapy for those in the United States and Canada. One of the key points author Nick Ng makes is that reliable and current information can be difficult […]

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Pregnancy and Ankle Massage: Is it safe?

Body Mechanics - Thursday January 21, 2021

Why did I want to write this post about pregnacy and ankle massage? After my two pregnancies and seeing a post on a prominent Facebook parenting group for the Upper East Side of New York, I started thinking about writing this blog.  In the post, the OP had asked the group, “Is it safe to […]

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Racism is Both a Moral Issue and a Public Health Issue

Body Mechanics - Monday June 8, 2020

Within the span of just the past few weeks, a number of Black Americans have been killed. Many of these people were murdered by police officers over non-violent offenses or no offenses at all. Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, Jamel Floyd, and Sean Reed are just a few of the […]

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Pain and the Zombie Apocalypse

Body Mechanics - Thursday March 12, 2020

Whether it’s another exhausting election cycle or the impending zombie apocalypse, many of us are a bit more stressed and anxious lately than usual.  Intense times, it’s totally normal to start experiencing some physical symptoms that might feel abnormal if you don’t realize their source.  Some of your old injuries might start hurting again, your […]

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The Benefits of Manual Therapy- An Interview from the Knowledge Exchange

Body Mechanics - Thursday February 27, 2020

Our Massage Therapist, Matt Danziger sits down with the Knowledge Exchange to talk Manual Therapy or, rather what manual therapy is NOT in this blog/podcast One of the things we pride ourselves over here at Body Mechanics Orthopedic Massage is our devotion to science and giving people a real outlook on what massage can and […]

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Six Easy Ways to Get The Most Out of Your Massage Therapy

Body Mechanics - Thursday February 13, 2020

Want to get a great massage?  We put together a list of six super easy ways to make sure you are getting the most out of your massage therapy experience.   Massage can be great…it can also be miserable. Just browse through Google reviews or Yelp reviews and you will see experiences that run the […]

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Meditation of Touching

Body Mechanics - Sunday November 17, 2019

In the course of my training as a yoga therapist I have learned a fair amount of new information about pain, stress management, and relaxation. With these new skills under my belt, my massage therapy goals have changed. I can particularly see this in the massage therapy education that I pass on to staff and […]

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