Game Ready
Med4Elite
Iceless cold, controllable heat, rapid contrast and active compression in one system — for injuries, surgeries and every stage of rehab.
$50 / 30 min, one sleeve
Long Beach · Sport massage & recovery
We start where it hurts.
Licensed therapists who take a full history before a single technique — then treat the cause, not the spot. Backed by a real recovery suite: cold plunge, infrared sauna and Game Ready Med4Elite, under one roof.
10+
Years of sports
massage experience
massage experience
100+
Client reviews
and counting
and counting
3
Recovery technologies
under one roof
under one roof
FSA/HSA
Accepted for
eligible care
eligible care
Why people book
Something
isn't
letting go
Almost everyone who walks in is carrying one of six things. Find yours — we'll tell you what we'd put you on, and what it costs, before you book anything.
A back and neck that never loosen
Desk posture, driving, lifting all day. The tension resets by Tuesday no matter how you sleep or stretch.
Back, Neck & Shoulders · from $85Pain that keeps coming back
The same knot, the same spot, every month. Chronic tension needs depth and a plan, not a relaxation hour.
Deep Tissue · from $85An injury healing too slowly
Post-operative, a strain that won't settle, swelling that lingers. Hands-on work plus iceless cold and compression.
Med4Elite + massage · from $50Training load your body can't clear
Heavy legs, stiff hips, soreness stacking week over week. Targeted sports work and contrast therapy to flush it.
Sports Massage · from $90Headaches and a jaw that clenches
Grinding at night, tight temples, restricted jaw movement. Work on the muscles around the joint itself.
TMJ Therapy · $65Pregnancy aches
Back ache, stiff neck, leg cramps, headaches, swelling. Positioned and pressured for comfort at every stage.
Prenatal · from $60Specialized treatment is only possible after a thorough client history. That is why every first visit opens with an intake and an assessment — injuries, training load, desk posture, surgeries, sleep — before anyone touches the table.
Not sure which one you are? Book a 60-minute sports massage — we assess first and steer from there. Or call and describe it; we have heard it before.
The difference
Hands are
the beginning.
Not the end.
Any studio can book you an hour on a table. Almost none can then put you in a 37° plunge, an infrared sauna, and a Game Ready compression sleeve. Cold, heat, contrast and compression — the stack elite programs run — on Broadway, today.
Down to 37°
Cold Plunge &
Contrast Therapy
A hybrid cold plunge and hot tub. Go cold, go hot, repeat — the fastest way to move blood through tired tissue and cut inflammation.
$45 / 30 min
Heat adaptation
Infrared Sauna
Raises core temperature the way exercise does. Repeat exposure builds heat tolerance, which shows up directly in performance.
$45 / 30 min
$220 Two hours · the full stack
The Ultimate
The Ultimate
Recovery Experience
- 01 Contrast therapy — cold plunge into hot plunge
- 02 60-minute sports massage with assisted stretching
- 03 30 minutes in the infrared sauna
Three recovery technologies under one roof. The Med4Elite is Game Ready's clinical multi-modality system — the same equipment used in professional training rooms — and the infrared sauna comes free with every Lymphatic Drainage session.
Every price, no asterisks
The full
price list
Fourteen treatments and two packages, grouped the way we actually work: hands-on massage, the recovery suite, and specialty sessions. Nothing here is a "starting from".
FSA and HSA accepted
Massage therapy is eligible care under most Flexible Spending and Health Savings accounts. Bring the card you already have — we run it like any other payment, and we'll give you the receipt your plan needs.
Massage
Hands-on · licensed therapists
Swedish Massage
$6030 min$10560 min$15590 min$200120 min
Sports Massage
$9030 min$15060 min$21090 min$270120 min
Deep Tissue
$8530 min$13060 min$17590 min$220120 min
Back, Neck & Shoulders
$8530 min$13060 min
Lymphatic Drainage
$16060 min + sauna
Prenatal
$7030 min$10575 min
Recovery
Cold · heat · contrast · compression
Med4Elite
$5030 min · 1 sleeve$9530 min · 2 sleeves$35+15 min on a massage
Cold Plunge & Contrast Therapy
$4530 min
Infrared Sauna
$4530 min
The Ultimate Recovery Experience
$2302 hours
The Youth Special
$95Massage + recovery
Specialty
Thirty-minute focused work
TMJ Therapy
$6530 min$95Oral TMJ · 30 min
Assisted Stretching
$6530 min$10560 min
Scalp Massage
$5530 min
Abdominal Massage
$6530 min
Foot Massage
$6530 min$11060 min
Gift cards are any amount and never expire — bought through Square and delivered instantly, redeemable against anything on this list.
17 and under
The Youth
Special
Club season doesn't stop, and neither do the growth spurts. A sport massage plus one recovery treatment — infrared sauna, Med4Elite or cold plunge — for anyone seventeen or younger, at a price built for a family calendar rather than a pro budget.
- Sport massage first. Assessment, then targeted work on whatever their sport loads hardest.
- Their pick of the recovery suite. Sauna, compression or the plunge — included, not upsold.
- A parent or guardian stays. Intake is completed with you, before the session starts.
Every therapist on this floor has competed. Dance, gymnastics, cheer, track and field, volleyball, Spartan races — which is why the assessment sounds like a conversation with a teammate rather than an intake interview.
Your first visit
Exactly
what
happens
Six steps, start to finish. The paperwork happens at home before you arrive, so your hour on the table stays an hour on the table.
01
Book online
Treatment, length and time. Two minutes, no phone call.
02
Intake at home
History, injuries, medications — before you arrive.
03
Arrive 5 min early
3300 E. Broadway. Street parking outside.
04
Assessment
Range of motion checked, the plan agreed out loud.
05
The work
Modalities mixed to you, pressure checked as we go.
06
Recovery & aftercare
Plunge, sauna or compression, then what to do next.
Licensed massage therapists, every session. The intake is a clinical document, not a marketing form — it stays with your file and gets reviewed before each following visit.
Availability
Book it
now, not
tomorrow
The booking calendar is live 24 hours a day. If you're reading this at eleven at night, you don't need to leave a message and wait — take the slot, complete the intake, and we'll see you with your history already in hand.
Booking open 24/7
- Monday – Friday
- 10:00a – 7:00p
- Saturday
- 10:00a – 5:00p
- Sunday
- Closed
Same-day slots do open up. FSA and HSA accepted at checkout.
The team
Five people,
one standard
Whoever you book, you get the same protocol: history first, assessment second, and the modality chosen for the body in front of them. Full bios are a click away.
Jonathan Ware
Founder & CEO
Sports massage therapist, 10+ years. A former athlete himself — archery, bowling, basketball, football, baseball and Spartan races.
Anisha Ware
Operations Manager
Runs the front of house and the back of it. Chaplain and ordained minister, and the reason your appointment starts on time.
Shannyn Owens
Massage Therapist
Dance and gymnastics background. Deep tissue for stubborn tension, sports massage for active recovery, and myofascial release.
Tina Jones
Massage Therapist
Former cheerleader, track and field and volleyball athlete. Sports massage, trigger point therapy and deep tissue.
Sara Bayer
Massage Therapist
Sara has joined the Firm Hands team and is bookable now. Her full bio is on the way — ask for her by name when you book.
Read the full bios
Prefer a specific therapist? Name them when you book.
The mascot
Say hello
to Bruce
Bruce is a hand. He has a face, a full set of arms, and better delts than most people who walk through our door. He is painted about your height, he lives in the hallway, and nobody planned for him to become the spot where everybody stops for a photograph.
The name on the door is Firm Hands. Bruce is what that looks like when you draw it — the hand that does the work, flexing. He is on the shirts. He is on the gift cards. He has been in the top left corner of every page of this website the whole time you have been reading it.
Somewhere along the way he stopped being a logo. Bruce isn’t the mascot — Bruce is the target. He is what a body looks like when nothing hurts and everything works: shoulders down, spine stacked, arms up because it costs him nothing to put them there.
Almost nobody walks in like that. Every hour on the table, every plunge, every stretch we send you home with is aimed at one thing — getting you closer to it than you were when you came through the door.
He isn’t decoration. He’s the standard — and he has been up there the whole time, waiting for you to come and meet it.
SpeciesHand. Right one, since you asked.
UniformFirm Hands tee. Nobody has ever seen him out of it.
PostThe hallway wall — and there is a second, smaller one of him inside, so you are never really unsupervised.
GripFirm. It is the entire point.
ShiftMon–Fri 10a–7p · Sat 10a–5p. Sundays he rests, and so should you.
DutiesPhotographs, mostly.
BruceFirm Hands · Long Beach
Bruce’s five rules
He did not write them. He just enforces them.
Fill the form in at home.
Injuries, surgeries, medications, what hurts and how long it has hurt. Five minutes at your kitchen table buys you five more minutes on the table here.
Turn up five minutes early.
Ten if the intake isn’t in yet. Street parking on Broadway, right outside. Come as you are.
Say something.
Pressure gets checked as we go. “Tell me” is always the right answer, and there is no prize for enduring more than you actually want to.
Drink the water.
Then do what your therapist told you — and avoid what they told you to avoid — for the next forty-eight hours. That part is the treatment too.
Get the photograph.
On your way out. He has been standing there flexing all day and it would be rude not to.
Listennnnn — when I tell you Jonathan will give you the massage of your LIFE, just go ahead and book your appointment now!!
Kimberly P. · Long Beach · the 100th reviewer
Corporate & events
Bring the
table to
your team
Chair massage on site — no table, no oil, no changing. Employees stay clothed and are back at their desks in fifteen minutes. Corporate wellness days, race expos, team bookings.
Reduced stress
Fewer headaches
Less back strain
Heightened morale
Decreased absenteeism
Increased retention
Send an enquiry How it works on the day
A low-cost benefit that helps attract and retain quality employees — which is why some of the country's largest companies run it as standard.
Firm HandsLong Beach, CA
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Card
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Give someone
their hour back
Nobody has ever been disappointed to receive an hour of their tension being taken apart. Any amount, delivered instantly, redeemable against every treatment on the price list.
Buy a gift cardLife is a sport. Get a massage.
You've earned
the hour
Open Mon–Fri 10a–7p · Sat 10a–5p · booking calendar open 24/7 · FSA / HSA accepted
Studio
3300 E. Broadway
Long Beach, CA 90803
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Hours
- Mon – Fri
- 10a – 7p
- Saturday
- 10a – 5p
- Sunday
- Closed