Bodyworks DW Advanced Massage Therapy NYC

Hip pain that keeps coming back often starts at your feet. The muscles under your foot work like a stirrup. If one side gets tighter than the other, the foot rolls out or collapses in, the knee rotates to follow, and the hip muscles overwork to compensate.

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Your hip isn't where you think it is. That bony ridge at your waist is the pelvis. The actual hip joint sits a couple of inches lower, where the ball of the thigh bone fits into its socket. If you're pointing at the wrong spot, you're probably treating the wrong spot too.

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There are five ways a rib cage goes wrong. Most therapists can feel that something's off but don't have names for what they're touching.

Side lean. Back lean. Twist. Held compression. Held inflation — the barrel chest that never fully exhales.

Once you can name the pattern, the treatment stops being a guess. You know which side is short, which structures are holding it there, and where to start.

David covers all five in session one, along with the anatomy and the breathing mechanics behind them. Session two is a full guest-client treatment you watch start to finish.

Sept 23 + 30 · 7pm ET
90 minutes each · 5 CE/CPD hours · $59.95 early-bird
Live through Niel Asher Education · recordings included

Cortisol gets talked about like a villain. It isn't.

It's the hormone that tells your body to ignore pain, and there's a reason for that. If something is chasing you and you stop to attend to an injury, you don't survive the chase. So the system overrides the pain and keeps you moving. Every animal has some version of it.

The catch is that it was built for tigers, not for a job. Run the override long enough and you stop noticing the thing that's actually wrong.

David Weintraub, LMT — Bodyworks DW, Midtown West and the Financial District, NYC.

Ask a client to take a deep breath and watch where it goes.

If their belly moves and their ribs don't, you're looking at a body that's given up on rib cage expansion and handed the job to the scalenes, serratus, and abdominals. That recruitment reads as threat to the nervous system — which is exactly why the tissue you just released is tight again by their next visit.

You can't talk someone out of that pattern. You have to give the ribs their movement back.

Two days, hands-on, with David. Assessment, the diaphragm's role in posture and mechanics, and MFR applied with clinical intent in prone, sidelying, and supine.

📍 Sept 16–17, 2026 · 11am–6pm · Midtown West
12 NYS + 12 NCBTMB CEUs · $480
$384 with code RIBCAGE20 — first 4 seats
12 therapists max

The tension causing your elbow pain often starts in your neck, shoulders and jaw.
Tightness up in the upper shoulders and neck — even into the jaw — feeds straight down into the forearms. The pecs and the upper back muscles run up into the shoulder, and that line carries across the elbow into the forearm. Treat the elbow alone and you leave the thing that loaded it in place.
If you're dealing with tennis or golfer's elbow, medical massage therapy can help. We see this every week at our Midtown and FiDi studios in NYC.
Book a session — link in bio.

Carpal tunnel, trigger finger, tennis elbow — I treat all of them as one problem in one chain.
Working locally where the pain is matters, but it isn't the whole job. The arm is a continuous system: shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers, neck, thorax. Whatever compressed and shortened that chain is usually what created the symptom at the far end of it.
So I open the whole line — chest and front of the shoulder, down through the back, out along the forearm — until the arm has real length and freedom again. That's what takes the pressure off the structure that's complaining.
Full 3-CEU on-demand course on the forearm and wrist — link in bio.