Healing Hands Clinic

This place is great second location close to work. Also see him at location closer to home in Bridgeport! Very friendly reception, easy appointments. Amazing through treatment ever time. Amazing bed side manner.

Best massage I have ever had! Walked in with a lot of pain in my upper back and shoulders. Dr Melvin and his wife were great in realigning my back and massaging all the tension out of my back muscles. They are both chiropractors with 20+ years of experience in post injury treatments. I highly recommend Dr Melvin’s practice.

Worst massage I have ever had! Very creepy & uncomfortable experience!
I purchased a Groupon & scheduled an appointment for the same day. I got a really good deal & the location was convenient, near my place in Bridgeport. It’s a actually a chiropractic office, which I knew going in. When I entered the clinic there were Christmas decorations & an old office desk sitting in this thin hallway, it was quite disheveled. There was a guy sitting awkwardly staring at me & I told him I had an appointment & he gave me some paperwork. The Groupon was for deep-​tissue/​therapeutic massage & the paperwork said deep-​tissue pressure extra $ 25, which I wasn’t too happy about.
The massage room had tile floors & a small are rug, there was a basket to put your clothes in with a no shoes/​boots sign in it. I opted for the hooks on the wall. The sheets were tattered & grungy, the top sheet looked like it was for a crib, it had pastel animals all over it. Very unprofessional. The bed sheet was pilled & dingy & had fibers on it that I had to pick off, right off the bat I was pretty grossed out. Then Joseph (the therapist) came in to the room, left the lights on, which were way too bright to be relaxing. He started off awkwardly moving the sheet to cover my neck & massage over top of it & I noticed he was breathing really heavily & his hands were shaking. He applied very little pressure & I asked for him to go deeper, which he acknowledged, but never did, just continued lightly massaging with unsteady hands. The whole massage was fumbly & uncomfortable, he was coughing at one point & was very hesitant & was clammy, which made me extremely uncomfortable. The atmosphere was noisy, staff were talking loudly & having conversations with customers right outside the door. It was terrible, so loud & disruptive! As if the massage wasn’t bad enough!
Towards the end I turned over on my back & Joseph fumbled around, he didn’t ask like most therapists do, & just proceeded to massage my face! He started rubbing my forehead & rubbing his fingers along my chin, just beneath my lip. I was so creeped out that I was speechless. I was so relieved when he said it was over. I got dressed & booked it out of there feeling pretty dirty & gross, not relaxed at all! Would never recommend this place & am surprised Groupon would offer a special at a place like that, really disappointed!

Terrible place, old and not relaxing, the lady giving me the massage was almost enjoying how bad it was hurting, making fun of me for been a «chicken» I was in so much pain and so tired of her complaining about my body (that is very well keep) that I stopped the massage before it was time (I regret I didn’t stopped it earlier) she burned my back with «hot pats» and left my muscles so tense for wanting to hit her every time he was digging on my skin and muscles. This was like torture to me, very painful and uncomfortable experience. Here I am a few hours latter with pains I didn’t have before, burned back and embarased that I gave a groupon to this place as birthday present for a friend

As a birthday gift I took my daughter here to get a massage. Laura was her massage therapist. She was just great! Such a sweet lady that makes you feel at home. My daughter got the therapeutic massage. According to my daughter it was great ! At her young age of 17 she suffers from alot of upper back pain and so during this first visit we learned that she needed her back adjusted and physio therapy. So that same day she was seen by Dr Melvin. He was great as well. Professional, explained the whole process and allowed me to stay in the room so i could see the process. My daughter came out feeling relieved and relaxed. She loved it!!! She has since been attending physio therapy and i have not heard her complain about back pains anymore! Thank you Laura and Dr Melvin for helping my daughter!!!

I am an MD with chronic back pain from standing/​doing procedures all day and seen many specialists from rehab doctors to spine specialists to chiropractors to many massage therapists. I’m only in my 20s but have back problems of those decades older. After many x-​rays and prescriptions I still was riddled with the same upper back pain that would wake me up in the middle of the night, resolved only by jamming my shoulders and rhomboids into hard objects for relief.
I’ve been to many massage therapists and find they help but usually the soft strokes they use just annoy me, reminding my muscles how sore they are without reaching the deep tissue.
Holli (LMT) here was fantastic. She got deep in my shoulders and worked out the kinks. I never fall asleep during massages but this was one time when I was woozy from being so relaxed! Over an hour session (which she did not chince on — an hr is an hr, not 45−50min like most places), she nearly resolved all the pain in my shoulders and managed to work on my rhomboids and calves a bit too. For such a tiny lady she has incredible grip strength to massage each tendon and muscle striation individually. She doesn’t rely on strength, but on technique.
If you want a soothing session of petting and soft strokes, I am sure you could request that here, but Holli is special in actually being able to deliver a medically therapeutic massage.
Pros: amazing technique, reasonably priced (I had a Groupon but they have deals too that make it similarly priced), good scheduling (i booked in less than 48hrs), very flexible with time (i called asking if I could come earlier and her response was come now!)
Cons: street parking but there is a $ 4 lot across the street, no frills décor (which I like but some may not), questionaire says $ 25 extra for hard pressure but I think it’s more technique than strength and Holli did one of the deepest tissue massage I’ve ever had without charging me this surcharge. Note tip is cash only (i unfortunately did not have as much cash as I had wished on me!)
They’ve likely earned a long term customer with Holli and I will be back and recommending them to anyone with deep muscle pain!

I received a Groupon for a 50 minute massage for this place as a gift. The establishment itself is fine. It’s in an older building in River North and didn’t give me a creepy feeling at all. When I arrived I filled out a form with my information and told the receptionist (who was also my massage therapist) that I had recently hurt my back and was seeing a chriropractor and physical therapist to help me get better.
Within minutes of being on the massage table the masseuse was selling me the services of her husband, who works with her, who she told me could do massage, chiro, electronic muscle stimulation and other types of services that could help me heal more quickly. I thanked her for that info and told her that I’d think about if my therapy was not working.
Throughout the massage she constantly continued selling me on the additional services. Given the fact that I was getting a massage I would have felt weird to tell her to stop selling me, but if I was face to face with a salesperson, I certainly would have cut her off. The massage itself was OK. I didn’t feel any better or any worse after the massage. I won’t be going back.
Following the massage I think I received no less than 4 follow up emails within 24 hours of the visit, which was a minor annoyance.

I had the best massage I’ve ever experienced. It was completely professional and a wonderful experience. my masseuse was Melvin, who is also a chiropractor and he did wonders for my back I will be a client for life. I can’t wait for my next massage the people there were kind and wonderful.

Um, gosh… where to start.
First, this place should be called Creepy Hands and not Healing Hands. I’ll tell you why in a second. The place looked like a run-​down old dentist’s office or something. They had fleece, snowman blankets in the rooms (uh…not too professional looking, couldn’t you have found a different blanket?) The guy who worked on me said I needed to take my bra off and lie on my stomach. Ok… fine, I know it’s easier to work without any clothes but come on dude, it made me feel uncomfortable. You were old enough to be my grandpa. Then, what REALLY bothered me is throughout the massage he kept leaving and LEFT THE DOOR OPEN. Come ON buddy, I’m half naked! How can I relax when I’m wondering what might happen to me or who might see me if I get up from under the weird snowman blanket?
That was just so off-​putting. Next, my massage was not 60 minutes, maybe more like 40 with him running in and out. He also used some weird contraption on me that apparently «shocked» my nerves… I guess I was so tense and stressed from midterms a professional masseuse needed to rely on something more intense to loosen me up… (after some googling I think it was called a TENS machine?). Well there goes fifteen minutes of my massage with something strapped to me– I have no idea what is happening and I felt like I was slowly getting electrocuted to death. It was NOT comfortable, let me tell you. But he walked out so I couldn’t do anything, the door was open so I literally felt stuck there. Torture. I’ve only had one other professional massage and that was heaven compared to this experience. I also echo what ever reviews said about the computer survey and the music. Overall, just head to another place that is more professional and will actually relax you.

Miracle hands. Amazing. Helpful. Professional. I have been experiencing constant lower back pain for over 2 weeks since blacking out in a chair & falling after too much/​too strong, chamomile tea. (Weird I know.) Anyways I went to a Michigan Ave chiropractor who did absolutely nothing to the alleviate the pain. I was very displeased.
I never had a professional massage but sensed I needed one. I scoured Unilocal & Groupon for days & decided to take a chance on Healing Hands. I had limited availability but luckily they had an appt the day I needed. I saw Laura. She was SO amazing. She listened to what I wanted, offered complementary services at no extra charge, and genuinely cared about getting to the root of the problem. She found it too!
She concentrated on the problem area which was a bit painful, but much needed. She felt heat radiating from the exact point. (Which I thought was all in my head.) But she mentioned it without even a word from me. She gave me follow up care instructions (ice packs) and sent her husband in for a brief exam to confirm her diagnosis & rule out a disc problem.
I felt absolutely no pain walking home for the first time in over 2 weeks. Even if this treatment fixes my issue, which I hope it will, but I still plan on going back for another massage either way.
Edit-​3 days of pain followed, but afterwards my SI joint pain was completely gone!

This review is specifically for a massage with Steve as I can’t speak to other services. I love a good massage and try to get one at least every two months. Steve is one of the very few massage therapists I’ve found who uses enough pressure to actually make my back/​neck feel better. In addition, he genuinely cares about his clients and their well being (he offered me tips on how to combat some of my neck pain — proper posture, etc. — and followed up after my massage to see how I was feeling). Also, the price point is very reasonable.

Good massage. Relaxing environment. The one bad thing that kinda ticked me off: the constant reminders about tipping throughout the office. I bought my Groupon for $ 30 which is supposedly half off the normal price of $ 60. On their check in sheet, they said that the normal price of a 1 hour massage was $ 99 and $ 20 was the suggested tip. Come on. I DID end up giving her a $ 20 tip but only because she was really good. If she was average, the constant reminders about tipping would have caused me to leave less of a tip than I normally would consider.

So, first off I will say I was not put off by the building or waiting area and the massage I received was very nice to begin with. I had booked with Steve, but apparently he had a family emergency and was being replaced with Melvin, which nobody told me until I got there, but I was ok with it. He did a good job, and while I didn’t particularly mind the instrumental Catholic songs playing on his ipod, they kept repeating over and over. There’s only so many times you can hear Dona Nobis Pacem before it becomes a bit tiresome. I also heard some voices through the walls, but that was toward the end of the session and wasn’t terribly distracting.
Once he was finished he mentioned they had a comment form that he’d like me to fill out and they’d really appreciate it if I had a moment. I said sure, thinking it might be a little post-​massage survey on how everything went, I might think about taking a second to write down a few thoughts. But no, once I got dressed he sat me in front of a computer they have set up in the waiting area which was on their website’s comment page. I felt pressured to at least type a couple sentences. To be fair, he never pushed me to do it, but I felt a little obligated in front of him, the front desk woman and the other people in the waiting room at that point.
I was feeling ok after the massage until a few hours later when I got this bad pain in my neck. I hadn’t done anything strenuous, simply gotten on the train to go home. I was expecting a little muscle soreness, after all this isn’t my first massage and my shoulders are pretty messed up. But this was full on pain like I had badly strained a muscle. It’s still hurting 2 days later, though it’s better today than yesterday. It hurts when I laugh, cough, sneeze, yawn, or swallow as well as during certain normal head movements. So at this point I could have saved my money, not gone to get this massage, and probably felt better than I do currently. I don’t know what happened, but I won’t be going back.
Also, he has tried to add me to his LinkedIn network, added me to his circles on Google+ and tried friending me on Facebook. I ended up blocking him on the two latter sites. He wasn’t threatening or anything, I just don’t want to be spammed by someone whose services I will never seek again.

I got a groupon for 2 massages here and I went with my bf. It was a great experience! I was a little skeptical at first because it’s kind of a strange building/​location for something like this from the outside, but it was great! Very relaxing and I felt great afterward. A great value if you can get a groupon!

This is a no frills massage clinic located on Ontario near the Ed Debevic’s. Upon entering the building I walked up the stairs to the fourth floor. Luckily someone guided me in the right direction — I didn’t really see any signs leading the way. I walked into the clinic and the receptionist greeted me and asked me to fill out a one-​page form. There were a few armchairs, a clean bathroom and a water dispenser. Nothing fancy, but pleasant enough on the inside.
Steve, the masseuse, greeted me and was so friendly. I had arrived 10 minutes late (so sorry!) but it was no problem. The room was ready, I undressed and slipped under the sheet. Steve came in and got to work. He asked where I was having the most tension, talked about my running and fitness habits, actually read the info I put down because he asked about my ankle which I sprained a few months ago and did a wonderful job. I’ve never had a massage like that. Every muscle was stretched and massaged. I was pulled, stretched, rubbed, kneaded and felt the tension and stress release from my body. The oil was grapeseed, nothing smelly or overly oily. He also used it sparingly, which I liked. I didn’t feel like a greaseball after I was done. I was pleased that despite my lateness, Steve still gave me almost a full hour massage. That was awesome! After I dressed, he showed me a neck exercises to do three times a day. That was really great — an added bonus. He also asked me quite often how I felt and reminded me to let him know if he should change the pressure. He was very firm which was great!
All in all, a great massage. I will go again, but probably with a Groupon or Lifebooker deal, which is what got me in the door this time, because money is a bit tight at the moment.

I don’t know why all the reviews are so bad?
I bought a group on for a hot stone massage with Steve and it was amazing! I was so relaxed that I started to fall asleep! Steve explained what he was going to do, if I had any problem areas, and how the stones work. It was amazing! The only thing I did not like was wearing a hospital gown. I thought that was a little strange, but over all AMAZING!!!

Anything But a «healing clinic med spa.» Obviously, a play with words.
The building was creepy! Old, dingy, long dark hallway, then you get to their suite and it’s just as creepy. They are saying they are a «healing hands clinic med spa» but they are not. There was nothing healing about the experience besides I got it as a gift, I would not pay to go there, not even at a discount. It’s some guy and his wife raking in the cash from people getting sucker punched by the discounted rates they offer. Oh and the Groupon pic is Not what it is like at all, that clearly is a façade. Seriously, if I would’ve been alone, I would not have gone in.
So I get past that because again it was a gift to me and the gifter was with me, I ask to use the bathroom before my massage, and it was freezing to the point of shivering. Not healing nor relaxing, it was tragic. I get past that, again didn’t complain held it in and get into room for my «back massage and foot reflexology» session. It was less than mediocre and not worth the discounted rate of $ 38. Walls are very thin so I tried relaxing and tuning out the conversation, laughing, and constant chatter that the person in the next room was having during their session. Then the freaking el passes by every few minutes. At that point I gave up, there was nothing they could do to change my perception of this place. What «real» healing clinic medspa in their right mind rents space in a terrible location, near the el, creepy building, creepy space all together.
Oh and unless you live or work downtown or take the el in and can walk to their location, it is a hassle. Finding Parking was not fun and an added expense.
So the one star is for the nice girl who stayed after her shift to do my massage, she was a nice person.
I would be curious, not that I would ever go there again, what their qualifications are to say that they do business as a clinic & medspa…

I was gifted a groupon to Healing Hands and had a disappointing and somewhat nerve-​wracking experience.
First of all, the scheduling system and office both seem to need some tuning up. I made the appointment and was told I would receive an email confirmation… I received 5 (somewhat annoying). I was also asked to fill out a survey beforehand but the link did not work. When I went in for my appointment I was not asked to fill anything out. Strange. The office does not look very professional. The massage table had a drab, wrinkled sheet placed over it and I wondered if it was used by the person before me. I don’t even think it was a sheet (maybe just a piece of fabric — as I don’t remember seeing seams.
The nerve-​wracking/​scary part of my experience began as I came into the building. The office is in an apartment building at the end of a hallway on the 4^th floor. I had the last appointment of the day and was surprised to find the halls dim and quiet (no one around) and no receptionist at the desk. The therapist was finishing with another client and when she left I looked around expecting to see someone else. I was alone in the big, quiet building with a 50-​something year old man dressed in black. Besides being creeped out that is also unprofessional, especially when a male is treating female clients. You should always have someone else around for the clients safety and comfort and therapists (so they don’t get accused of anything).
Since the groupon was a gift I hadn’t looked into the clinic, but soon realized it was a chiropractic clinic. The groupon was for a swedish massage but the therapist did a lot of just stretching my arms and legs (which I didn’t really care for and couldn’t relax because of the atmosphere — being alone and the bright room). He also was cracking my fingers and toes with is painful and creeps me out, but he stopped when I asked. The massage was very mediocre and I honestly didn’t feel much different after leaving.
When I was leaving, the therapist asked me to fill out a survey on the computer. Again, this seemed unprofessional and he was standing right there so I felt pressure to write a good review. :(Overall, it wasn’t a very good experience and I was happy to get out of there.

Meh. I have had a ton of massages in my life, but since this was a groupon at a decent price I thought I would try it out.
First, the elevator to the building was broken, we had to climb 4 flights of stairs. Now, that is not the worse thing, but when you are heading to a relaxing massage it is the last thing you want to do.
Second, the office is medicor. The décor looks like they took a ton of dollar store merchandise and threw it together with no rhyme or reason. Very tacky. But again, I was there for the massage not the look. But when you arrive to other salons that have a more relaxed atmosphere, you feel relaxed going into the massage.
Lastly, the massage. It as well was medicor, but not the worse I have ever had. The pressure was light (but I probably could have spoke up more). He did concentrate on the areas that were requested, so that was a major plus. The room was very bright, again, for getting a massage it would have been nice to have a darker room to relax. The music was sufficient, typical piano tunes.
Overall, I may return on a groupon cost or discount. But I would never pay full price for this salon.

I purchased three 30-​min massage at HHC & MS. First time I saw Laura. Second time I saw Johny– they both gave me an exceptional service! I’m going for my third massage tomorrow!
The whole staff is very friendly, professional and laid-​back. I already refered my friends & family to this Spa! And will definetely keep referring.
Thank you HHC & MC for all your service!
p. s. the reason for 4 stars instead of 5– street parking, hard to find.