About

Who I am

Carl has been working in the health, fitness and wellness industry for over 15 years. After completing his degree in Nutritional Sciences from Rutgers University, Carl started his career as a personal trainer and quickly moved up the ranks into management at a fitness club on a multi-club level. He enjoyed his work as regional fitness director, teaching personal trainers the value of education and client results. After moving on to provide specialized services in his own business, Carl continued to increase his skill-set with a certification in manual therapy from the San Francisco School of Massage. He continued his post-graduate training with specialized coursework, including Active Release Techniques®, Anatomy in Motion, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and the latest in functional neurological rehabilitation from Proprioceptive Deep Tendon Reflex® (P-DTR®), where he is also an international instructor. Carl’s skillset and approach caters both to the avid athlete as well as clients that have been unable to obtain results from standard therapeutic means in resolving pain, weakness, immobility, limited range of motion, digestive dysfunctions, headaches, dizziness, and more. As a lifelong athlete and health-conscious individual, Carl has spent years studying exercise, nutrition, and various forms of massage and bodywork. Carl specializes in massage and pain relief techniques to get clients out of dysfunction and into function quickly and effectively. Carl is a CAMTC Certified Massage Therapist (certification #60826) and a Nationally Certified Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. He is a 2001 graduate of Rutgers University, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences, with a focus in Dietetics.

Approach

Many clients come to me after they have tried massage therapy, chiropractic work, acupuncture, and medical intervention to address their symptoms, without relief or even attaining an understanding of their symptomology. That is where I come in. In my approach, I use functional neurological bodywork and soft-tissue techniques to rebalance and reset the body’s neurological pathways that are currently causing strain, pain and dysfunction. The science behind pain and weakness isn’t as mysterious as it once was. With an understanding of the body’s nervous system, the code of pain and dysfunction can be rewritten in the body with new neurological techniques. Imagine that, as you take the journey through life, you are carrying a backpack, and every time you have an injury, strain, or trauma, a small or sometimes large stone is tossed into that backpack for you to carry. Conventional belief would have it that aches and pains are a normal part of the aging process. But what if those aches and pains are simply a result of our nervous system carrying the load of all of those micro and macro traumas? What if the load is actually the nervous system “integrating” defenses in the form of altered movement patterns and inhibition in effort to manage the load and protect you from further injury? The body prefers to have more defenses than fewer defenses. When we injure ourselves we have more inflammation than we need. Similarly, body stores the information of the trauma in the nervous system and even after the tissue has healed over a few days, weeks, or months, weakness and pain persist as a reminder. Pain and weakness is the result of the body’s nervous system being out of balance in an attempt to keep you from further harm. My goal is to restore the body’s healthy balance by using breakthrough, cutting edge approaches in functional neurological bodywork.

Specialties

Active Release Techniques® (ART®) is a patented, state of the art soft tissue technique that addresses problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and nerves. It is considered the gold standard in soft tissue techniques. Proprioceptive Deep Tendon Reflex Technique® (P-DTR®) is the most cutting edge neuromuscular technique to date. P-DTR® gently and noninvasively works with the receptor system of the body, which eliminates pain and gives functionality and strength back to clients quickly and safely. Anatomy in Motion™ (AiM™) is a system and model that assesses the human gait cycle. It’s model, the Flow Motion Model™, maps what each joint in the body is doing from heel to toe – through 5 phases of gait – in three dimensions – all within 0.65-0.8 seconds. AiM is a movement based assessment and therapy to bring the body back to balance and alignment.