About Us
Medical Massage Practitioners of America
MMPA has been founded back in 2002 by Herbert Levin LMT MMP and Beatrix Levin and served as an organization providing Education for Medical Massage. As an approved provider for Continuing Education, MMPA offered seminars to enable Massage Therapists and other providers in the health industry to gain the skills necessary to become part of the Medical Massage Therapy Profession. The educational program with MMPA was about bringing together business, health & medical aspects and adult education in order to help Massage Therapists to create a successful and rewarding career. MMPA has been a Continuing Education Provider for Massage Therapists for many years and upon Herb Levin’s retirement from his full time teaching and therapy practice, MMPA adjusted its direction from providing hands on seminars to providing a platform for Massage Therapists and other health care professionals to learn more about Medical Massage.
Who we are
Herb Levin LMT MMP
Herb Levin L.M.T. M.M.P. started his career in Massage Therapy in 1979. He was the owner and director of ‘The Healing Center’ in Atlantic City, New Jersey a multidisciplinary treatment facility combining multiple forms of Massage Therapy and nutritional consulting.
Throughout Herb’s career, he had a Medical Massage oriented practice, which was supported entirely by client and physician referrals.
Besides his training in Neuromuscular Massage Therapy as well as advanced training in Myofascial and other structural bodywork systems , he also had over 20 years experience in yoga, meditation and breath work. He had expanded the Neuromuscular Massage Therapy technique by including Orthopedic Assessment, Muscle Tests, Fascial Spreading, Trigger Point Therapy, Moving Palpation, Positional Release, and Rehabilitative Stretching Procedures.
Herb had been a member of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) and the Florida State Massage Therapy Association (FSMTA) since 1984 and was the President of the Broward Chapter from 1986 – 1989 and Chairman of the Board in 1990 and 1991. He was awarded the ‘Therapist of the Year for 1993’ by the FSMTA Broward Chapter and was the featured presenter at the 1994 Florida Chiropractic Association Convention.
Herb Levin is one of the foremost authorities on insurance billing for the Medical Massage Therapist. He was actively involved in creating the legislation enabling the Massage Therapist to bill for their services. He has taught thousands of Massage Therapists to successfully work within the Medical Massage and Insurance reimbursement realm. Herb has been teaching ‘Insurance Billing & Practice Building’, ‘A Day of the Back’, ‘A Day of the Neck’, ‘Understanding Postural Distortion’, ‘Upper Extremities’ and ‘Lower Extremities’ to therapists throughout the United States starting in 1986.
Beatrix Levin
Putting it all together… from an idea to reality. With her business background, Beatrix created Medical Massage Practitioners of America from the ground up to create a platform for Herb Levin’s talent, knowledge and insight of massage therapy and his inspirational style of teaching. She created the framework for the organization, and responsibilities entailed development, marketing and administration. It also was her mission to further develop a seminar series that deepened the level of understanding of Medical Massage and creating a valuable certification series to help Massage Therapists not only gain valuable education but also to provide a tool to communicate and market one’s level of expertise.
Beatrix’s goal was to bring business, health & medical aspects as well as adult education together to create a viable program, which is scholastic, methodical and practical at the same time. These were just some of the ingredients, which lead Medical Massage Practitioners of America to become a well-respected organization over the years.
After Herb’s retirement from teaching, the mission of providing continuing education seminars for massage therapists and other health care providers changed to providing a platform to bring awareness to Medical Massage thus helping the field to gain further recognition.
Beatrix Levin majored in Business Administration and was awarded a degree in Social and Economic Sciences from the Vienna University of Economics in Vienna, Austria.