Sometimes it can be helpful to have massage therapy ancillary to your Chiropractic adjustments.

Should you get the therapy before or after your visit with Dr. Press?

Frankly, in Dr. Press' experience, it is a matter of the chicken or the egg. In other words, if you get your massage before your adjustment, you will likely be more relaxed to be adjusted and therefore get greater benefit from your adjustment. If however, you get massaged after your adjustment, you will leave having significantly less muscle tension and spasm then from an adjustment alone.

Massage therapists are those trained with at least 500 hours of education after high school, and graduating from a New Jersey or New York State Department of Education approved vocational-technical school for that purpose. Unfortunately, due to what appear to have been corrupt influences in the legislative process, the State of New Jersey, unlike many others including NY, has not seen fit to license Massage Therapists until this year. FINALLY, there is a State Licensing Board for Massage Therapists / Bodywork, and NO ONE can practice Massage anymore without a State License.

Dr. Press was singlehandedly responsible for getting the State Department of Education to create a standard for Massage Therapy schools. despite all this, there are many, many people in New Jersey out there, practicing Massage, with diplomas from programs that predated that, and studied as little as 30 hours. Demand to see a Diploma from a State of New Jersey Accredited Vocational-Technical School AND a State License.

NOTICE: We are currently looking for a masseuse to work with Dr. Press in our office in her own cash practice.

Insurance reimbursement?

Unfortunately as a result of a law passed at the request of the State Physical Therapy Association, sometime around 1995, Doctors of any kind are now forbidden to charge insurance carriers for the services of any therapist who does not hold a State License. Massage therapists are only JUST now going to be LICENSED by the State [A 4455 - 2007], and those already certified by the State Board of Nursing are now, pursuant to the new law, considered "Licensed." Until the Insurance carriers come up to speed though, all massage treatments remain strictly cash, and paid directly to the therapist, and all Massage treatment is strictly for the relief of stress and reduction of muscle tension.