It’s not every day you get a recommendation letter from Alex Meyer

December 19, 2014

Alex Meyer, 2012 US Olympic open water swimmer, has been a private client of mine since 2013. He kindly sent me this letter of recommendation earlier this year:

I have been a member of the US National Swim Team since 2009 and competed in the 2012 Olympic Games in the Open Water 10km event. I am also a former World Champion in the 25km (2010) and three-time US Open Water National Champion. I reside in Cambridge, MA and see Colleen Carney routinely for massage therapy to aid my recovery from muscle fatigue resulting from intense training.

I first met Colleen in the spring of 2013 when she was working with the Harvard Men’s Swimming and Diving Team at a championship meet and when many of the team members spoke highly of her, I made an appointment. After my first session with Colleen, I have seen her exclusively ever since.

Colleen has a thorough understanding of the human body and especially that of an elite athlete. Every time I saw her, she would ask me how I was feeling, what my symptoms were, and then launch a full-scale investigation of my body to discover the sometimes unlikely culprit of my pain. The more I saw Colleen, the better the understanding she had of my body and how to remedy my soreness.

For example, I consistently have a lot of tightness in my small rotator cuff muscles after hard workouts, and Colleen can go right to the very specific area without having to search around too much. I’ve had to direct every other massage therapist I’ve worked with to find the right spot in my shoulder, even ones I had seen with the same problem multiple times. But Colleen was able to learn and remember my usual sensitive spots so I didn’t have to do that.

Colleen also facilitated my relationship with Recovery Pump and my regular use of their product, which I believe to have a huge impact on my recovery.

Colleen in the most skilled massage therapist I have ever worked with and also the most flexible and understanding of my training schedule. I highly recommend her to anyone from the weekend warrior to the highly trained elite athlete.

Alex