Michael Pradel

Massage Therapist, Functional Training Coach

Michael is a state-certified massage therapist and medical spa therapist. He is also a Functional Training Coach certified by DTB Akademie. As a therapist, he specialises in classical massage, sports massage, fascial techniques, reflexology, electrotherapy, periosteal treatment, colon therapy, scar treatment and hydrotherapy, structural osteopathy and gentle chiropractic (Ackermann Institute, Stockholm), craniosacral osteopathy, manual lymphatic drainage and physical oedema therapy, functional sling training therapy, myofascial trigger point therapy and kinesiotaping, functional training and back training.
He has over 25 years’ experience in physical therapy and rehabilitation medicine and has been working for the Bavarian State Ballet since 2019.
He taught medical students at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover and has been a provider and course leader for his own prevention groups in the areas of functional training, personal functional training, back training and athletic training for club teams (athletics, football). He has implemented workplace health promotion measures (for which he received an award from the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in 2018), and was also a sports lecturer at the OsteMed Nursing School in Zeven. He provided sports physiotherapy to the elite squad athletes at the Olympic Training Centre in Hanover. For the German Swimming Federation, he was a caretaker at competitions involving the junior national team. He also has experience as a therapist in rehabilitation clinics in Bad Schwalbach, Oberjoch and Oberstdorf, as well as on the island of Borkum.

(Information as of May 2026)