Adams Rolfing NYC

Specialties

I combine a specialized, two-​stage approach to restore and maintain your body’s ability to stand straighter and move easier: First, The Functional Movement Screen assessment is given before your first Rolfing session to test, discover and give corrective exercises to remedy your dysfunctional movement patterns.

The FMS is comprised of seven movement tests that require a balance of mobility and stability. The observable performance of the movement patterns can reveal client weaknesses, imbalances, asymmetries, and limitations of faulty or dysfunctional movement patterns. The results are graded from zero to three, then the numbers are sent to the FMS site, which builds and prescribes, by email, a customized and individual, 8 week exercise program tailored to the client’s specific needs. Rolfing® is a therapeutic process of hands-​on physical manipulation that is applied while clients actively stretch and participate. This global combination mobilizes, reorganizes and balances the soft connective tissue, or myofascia, that surrounds the muscles throughout the entire body.

Rolfing’s benefits enhance posture, improve the range of movement and mobility, relieves tense muscles, and increases a person’s general feeling of well being. Clients leave standing straighter and moving with greater ease.

When clients follow the FMS corrective exercises, they reset and reinforce proper movement patterns and thereby maintain the postural and movement improvements gained from the Rolfing.

History

Established in 1990.

Samuel Adams, Certified Advanced Rolfer™ has been practicing Rolfing® for 24 years and Functional Movement Screens™for 2 years with locations in Soho at the Physiofitness clinic, and in Locust Point in Baltimore, MD.

Sam has been an affiliate of the NewYork-​Presbyterian Hospital’s Rehabilitation Department and has been licensed since 1980 in New York State (#25 540) and 2009 in Maryland (#R01057) to practice Rolfing and FMS.

From 1982 to 1992, Sam was invited to travel with the family of Greek shipping magnate, Mr. Stavros Niarchos, administering medical massage and prescription exercise to Mr. Niarchos, under the direction of Dr. Willibald Nagler, Physiatrist-​In-​Chief of the NY-​Presbyterian Hospital’s Rehabilitation Department.

Sam has also worked with the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Boutros-​Boutros Ghali and actor/​producer James Cavenaugh Burke, among many other notable personalities.

Meet the Business Owner

Sam A.

Business Owner

Born near Buffalo, NY, Sam attended business school in Niagara County before heading south to Sarasota, Fla., to study massage therapy and experience Rolfing. He headed up NYC to study Rolfing but was sidelined for 10 years working in an entourage, traveling throughout Europe and performing massage and prescription exercises for the family of Greek shipping magnate, Stavros Niarchos. Sam was able to attend lectures and clinical exposure in NY Hospitals Rehabilitation Dept. as it was run by Mr. Niarchos physician, Dr. Willibald Nagler, physiatrist-​in-​chief. Sam left the Niarchos family in 1992 to start his Rolfing practice in New York City and now maintains a dual practice performing Rolfing and the Functional Movement Screen assessments at the Physiofitness clinic in Soho as well as his home in Locust Point in Baltimore, where he and his family have lived for the past seven years.