(917) 721-7386 Text me ONLY for an appointment.
Acupuncture, Manual Therapy, Cupping, Guasha, Trigger point acupuncture
Caring For Your Health since 1991, entering my 35th anniversary on June 28th.
My name is Francesco Mariglia. I have been doing bodywork daily since 1960 at the the age of four. I was told I was a child prodigy in 1990 by the Director of Admissions of the Swedish Institute in Manhattan during my interview. Apparently, children all over the world begin bodywork as a gift we came in with. They waived my $35 admission fee and said "we would be honored to have you enroll." Well, they weren't kidding because it was a disaster of a school run by two evil sisters, missing the fangs but they made up for it with toxicity. There, I introduced deep tissue massage therapy to my class at the Swedish Institute in 1990 and thereafter to all Broadway dancers in 1991 where I was known as "What hands!". I also introduced the psoas muscle to Broadway dancers as it was an unknown muscle at that time, which was considered an unimportant muscle at Mercy College when I enrolled in the physical therapy school in 1998. The psoas muscle - hip flexor - was left out of the curriculum for human gross anatomy cadaver dissection my first year of physical therapy college, so I left after that semester because I realized that if you do not teach PTs the origin of the low back/hip pain, the patients will need to keep returning several times per week for therapy. So I taught a stretch for the psoas muscle to alleviate the pain of an ever increasing tightness of this muscle due to climbing the many flights of backstage dressing room stairs, at that time they were raked stages Upstage was higher sloping downstage lower so the audience could see the dancers behind the front lines, and sometimes dancers wore harnesses to fly above the stage putting them in a flexed hip anterior tilted position, as in A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden Theater, and Peter Pan on Broadway. Since hardly anyone knew about the hip flexor, including ballet dancers, Pilates instructors and yoga instructors of the time, it was a necessary revelation that rippled outwards from the 46 musicals that I worked on from 1991 and the 2000s to present. I became "the guy with the hands" on Broadway and was given an office, free of charge, at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on West 48th Street during Grease! Live On Stage where dancers from all of the musicals could easily come to me. I brought bodywork to Broadway Bares Equity Fights AIDS for three years until I became overwhelmed with the amount of work I had, even turning away a young, yet unknown, Mariska Hargitay. And as Mariska more recently said, when she called to make an appointment for husband Peter Hermann (Younger with Sutton Foster), "I bet you are sorry now!!!" and yes I am sorry now but I was overwhelmed six days a week and 9 hours a day with dancers in pretty much every musical through the 1990 and 2000s. I had stopped taking new clients to give myself much needed rest when Mariska called..
My cozy Home-Office has been located at the Chelsea/Village border at Sixth Ave/West 15th Street, for entering into my 35th year. 108 W 15th Street - a gated garden mews entrance, located between Sixth and Seventh Avenues on the south side of West 15th St. btwn 100 and 110. It is convenient from all 14th St. subway stations. Citibike station and the Vincent 15 ICON parking garage just across the street from my front garden gate.
TEXT me for an appointment with specific days and times available. I have not answered the telephone since 2010 and began texting patients in 2006, so please text. I do not return calls so do not call and leave a message asking me to return your call.
Natural Healings: medical wellness
My goals are to provide fundamental healing principles and mind-body-spirit modalites. My HomeOffice, since June 28, 1991 in Chelsea has served my community for going on 35 years, is described as cozy and charming. All clients are required to sign mandatory healthcare Acupuncture Association arbitration forms in order to be treated - and must be a minimum of 18 years of age. A treatment plan will be decided upon that is based on the orthopedic intake, evaluation, and diagnosis.
This may include acupuncture, neurofunctional electro-acupuncture, trigger point acupuncture, and ancillary techniques such as manual therapy (medical muscle therapy), therapeutic ultrasound, cupping, guasha, therapeutic exercises, stretching, and/or taping.
Since 1991, I have been a therapist for 46 Broadway musicals and dramas. Pictured: Charlotte d'Amboise as Cassie in 2008 A Chorus Line, currently Roxie Hart in CHICAGO! The Musical
I specialize in athletic manual rehabilitation therapy for runners and dancers.
