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posted on November 15, 2021

My name is Malik J. Abrams, licensed massage therapist. I was born and raised here in Pittsburgh, specifically Homewood-Point Breeze area. Since having graduated from Pittsburgh Career Institute in 2018, I have been working alongside chiropractors, personal trainers, and fitness experts, undertaking studies, and honing my practice.

I pride myself in working with as many kinds of people as possible. In this goal, I have done bodywork sessions with servers and line cooks, new and old mothers, trade professionals, and civil laborers, desk workers, and musicians, athletes of all kinds: weight trainers, soccer, tennis, football, and baseball players, yoga instructors, cyclists, and runners.

Though I’ve enjoyed all of my experiences in providing therapy and bodywork, I feel most fulfilled working with athletes. I am able to exercise my problem solving skills to improve my clients performance, be it gait, posture or their sport of choice.

After graduating high school, I went straight to college and it did not serve me, so I left and started working. I hosted and bussed restaurants, walked dogs, rolled burritos, folded clothes. I got into massage therapy after bouncing around many jobs that I didn’t truly enjoy: Once I found the Institute, I could finally foster a positive secondary educational experience and focus my career endeavors. Through school and private study, studying anatomy and the interactions of the bodily systems became the cheat code, of sorts, to my own health, fitness, and healing.

I am here to help, and have the skills and drive to do just that.

‘To be anyone else but the happiest version of yourself is a waste.’