About Our Founder
Caleb Knight Hicks
Growing up, my mother worked in special education. Oftentimes she had a physically demanding job. She would come home with large knots in her shoulders, and I had been working on them ever since. Shortly therafter, it was recommended to me to get into that career. IT was much later in life after becoming a husband, and a father, did I finally get the opportunity to go to massage school.
After initially going to school for computer science, I later went back to college to become a gym teacher. After just over a year (Semester and a half) I relocated to Florida, and joined the workforce. (Quit going to school and started doing other things). I Did various jobs in sales and marketing for roughly the next decade.
Due to downsizing, my family was unemployed with a newborn. We relocated outside of Chicago where I found the perfect opportunity to go to college to begin my new massage career.
Then in 2011 I went to William Rainey college full time for a year to obtain my massage license.
As the first in the college’s history to graduate via Skype from Florida, I was also the first in the program’s history to take and pass a national exam prior to graduation.
Students were required to do 80 hours of clinicals and I took on more than 100 in order stand out from the crowd and do the best I could.
We did a lot of events on and off campus, and again I did my best to exceed expectations. Because I was attending night school, professional athletes were able to come discreetly in the evenings to be get treated for their injuries to assist in their recovery.
I chose a medically oriented education that vastly exceeded the average state minimum. Since becoming licensed at the beginning of 2012, I have always exclusively pursued medical and rehabilitation training.
The average person doesn’t understand. Every 2 years, 24 hours of continued education is required for license renewal. Now in my 14th year, I have been required a minimum of 192 hours of training which I have far exceeded in my practice.
With lots of training in many areas, I have still become a specialist in the field of rehabilitation. I prefer to bring as many different modalities to the table as it takes to help my clients recover. Sometimes you have to throw the book at them and do all kinds of different stuff to see improvement, but that’s what it’s all about.
Having worked on everyone from young children to my oldest regular client (who is currently 92) I have seen and worked on almost all medical conditions ranging from mental health to physical deformities.
In some cases, the client simply needs to be heard. Oftentimes through their explanation, will come the source of healing. Other times, it is a more challenging path to discover the root cause of a deep source of pain.
I have remained a full time massage therapist since becoming licensed. Primarily working with my own clients, I have contracted for various businesses in the industry as well.
It is through hard lessons and bad examples that I have forged my strong work ethic and my desire to better my client’s health.
I have always maintained long term clients who would follow me throughout my career.
A person can very quickly recognize quality work. Therefore, they are going to want to receive and support that work. Oftentimes it is through that support that the opportunity for me to create Knight’s Rehab can happen. My strong work ethic, and my desire to enhance the industry of massage and further everyone’s education, has been assisted by my clients every step of the way.
These are exactly the clients that have given me the opportunity to realize my dream of Knight’s Rehab.
I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity. Welcome to Knight’s Rehab.