Massage Therapy in Chicago

This is not a spa hour: your session is built around what your body and your rehab plan need that week, with membership tiers for people who want it regularly.

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No referral needed in Illinois · In-network with BCBS, PPO and Medicare.

Prefer to call? (312) 489-8579

Clinical massage, not a spa hour.

Massage here is part of the rehab plan. Your therapist works from what your evaluation found, targets the tissue that is actually limiting you, and what they find goes back to the clinician managing your case. Same building, same team, same plan.

Jessica Carlin, LMT, RYT leads massage at The Movement Guild. Sessions draw on deep tissue, myofascial and trigger point work depending on what the tissue needs that week, rather than a fixed routine run over everybody who walks in.

Coordinated with your therapy plan, not separate from it
Led by Jessica Carlin, LMT, RYT
Deep tissue, myofascial and trigger point work
Membership tiers run roughly $109 to $129 per service
Massage treatment table set up in a private room at The Movement Guild

For tissue that keeps tightening back up.

If the same knot returns every week, if you leave physical therapy feeling loose and stiffen up again by Thursday, or if your whole week collects in your neck and shoulders, hands-on work gives the tissue a reason to change. It pairs with exercise, which is what makes the change stay.

Chronic Neck and Shoulder Tension
Low Back Tightness
Recovery Between PT Visits
Desk Posture Strain
Tension Headaches
Hip and Glute Tightness
Scar Tissue and Adhesions
Post-Surgical Tissue Mobility
Restricted Range of Motion
Calf and Foot Tightness
Everyday Stress Load
Poor Sleep From Tension

A session built for you, that week.

Check In First

Your therapist asks what has changed since last time: what is sore, what you trained, what your clinician is working on with you. Five minutes of that decides where the rest of the hour goes.

Targeted Hands-On Work

Technique and pressure are matched to the tissue and to your tolerance. Deeper is not automatically better, and you will be asked more than once whether what is happening is actually helping.

Handoff and Homework

If you are also in physical therapy here, the findings go back to your clinician. Either way you leave with the one or two things worth doing before the next session.

Tissue that stays changed for longer.

A good massage feels good for a day. A massage aimed at the tissue your rehab is already working on feeds straight into the thing you are trying to change, which is why it gets scheduled around your plan rather than whenever there happens to be an opening.

Real Tissue Change

Adhesions, guarding and restricted fascia treated directly, so the range you gain in therapy is easier to hold onto between visits.

Less Day-to-Day Tension

The neck, shoulders and low back that carry your week get attention before the tightness turns into the next flare-up.

Better Movement Quality

Tissue that glides lets joints travel properly, which makes the strength work in your plan feel less like fighting your own body.

A Recovery Habit

Membership tiers run roughly $109 to $129 per service, which turns regular bodywork into a routine instead of an emergency measure.

Book a session or a consultation.

Massage can run alongside physical therapy or stand on its own. If you are not sure which one you actually need, talk to a specialist first and we will sort that out before you book anything.

Membership tiers cover massage, personal training, yoga and Kinstretch at roughly $109 to $129 per service depending on your commitment level. Single sessions exist too. Ask on the form and we will lay out both options.

Prefer to call? (312) 489-8579