Tandem Point^SM acupressure therapy seeks to reduce muscle pain, to reduce muscle-related joint pain and to improve joint mobility. This cutting-edge hands-on therapy integrates western trigger point and Chinese acupressure techniques with active and passive stretching. Tender or painful pressure points are held in tandem, to more quickly release tension and remove pain. Stretching through pressure points allows an even deeper release of painful holding patterns.

If Tandem Point therapy is effective for you, it will be obvious during your first visit. Progress is usually clear, dramatic, and measurable. A client who does not make clear, obvious progress in his or her first visit will not be scheduled for another appointment for the same problem.

Rena Margulis developed Tandem Point therapy. She is Nationally Certified in Asian Bodywork Therapy (NCCAOM) and Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB). In March 2000, Rena Margulis made a 90-minute presentation on Tandem Point therapy during Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Grand Rounds at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

View National Institutes of Health presentation on Tandem Point therapy.

A dual case report by Rena Margulis and Melissa Borrero, M.D., has been accepted for poster presentation at MyoPain 2010, the Eighth World Congress on Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia, in Toledo, Spain.

On June 19, 2010, Rena Margulis was named to the World Massage Therapy Hall of Fame, for induction in 2012.