Monday - Saturdays: By Appointment Only
Monday - Saturdays: By Appointment Only
Jared Ruban is a Master Massage Therapist, personal trainer, life coach, and nutritionist with 30 years of experience in rehabilitation and pain management.
He trained at the source of each discipline he practices: six months in Chiang Mai, Thailand for traditional Thai massage, working the body's fascial pathways through deep compression. India for Ayurvedic and Vedic work — therapeutic systems designed to release stored tension at a structural level. Hawaii for Lomi Lomi — a full-body flowing technique that addresses the connective tissue system as a whole. Zen Shiatsu for meridian-based pressure and deep muscular release. His method: find the best practitioner in the world for each modality and study with them in person.
He also brings a mixed martial arts foundation — trained to read the body as a system of levers, angles, and forces. That blend of disciplines is precisely why Dr. Tran chose him: he addresses different tissue types in ways a single-modality practitioner cannot.
HIS ROLE AT BCT MEDICAL
Jared joined Dr. Tran's team to learn this specialty directly under its developer. The collaboration is systematic: Dr. Tran conducts the total tensional assessment, builds the treatment program, and addresses primary dysfunctions through trigger point injections, in-office work, and when needed, procedures under anesthesia. Jared handles the secondary compensatory tensional work in the office — treating the surrounding structures that compensate around the primary release. Left untreated, they seize due to unopposed tension and pull the patient back into the pain cycle. As Dr. Tran puts it: release the main city but leave the five supporting cities untreated, and those five cities will drag everything back. Jared makes sure the whole network holds.
SPECIALTIES
IN HIS OWN WORDS
Q: Introduce yourself.
“Master massage therapist, personal trainer, life coach, nutritionist — 30 years. At BCT Medical I joined Dr. Tran's team to learn and work within his Connective Tissue Reconditioning methodology, working directly with him and supporting his patients.”
Q: You've trained all over the world.
“I go to where each modality comes from. Six months in Chiang Mai for Thai massage, India for Ayurvedic work, Hawaii for Lomi Lomi. None of them fix everything alone. You need every tool — and to understand why each works differently on different tissue types.”
Q: What drew you to Dr. Tran?
“He sedates the tissue first. By the time I get there, the guarded muscles are already releasing. I've dreamed about working in an environment like this for twenty years. The systematic approach to tensional debt matched how I've always seen the body.”
Q: What are 'the highways?'
“Your connective tissue is a highway system. Everything is connected. I had elbow pain for years. A therapist found a lipoma on my tricep — when removed, the pain was gone instantly. It was never the elbow. It's always about finding the highway that leads to the source.”
Q: What do most people get wrong?
“They treat where it hurts. Gluteal amnesia — most people over 40 have it from sitting. Glutes stop firing, psoas takes over, the spine pays for it. So does the knee. And the foot. The body breaks in one place and everything covers for it. We treat both.”
Q: How does working with Dr. Tran change what you can do?
“It changes everything. He does the trigger point injections first — so the tissue is already releasing before I even touch it. I've been dreaming about working in an environment like that for twenty years. We get results in sessions that would normally take months.”
Q: What's your philosophy beyond the table?
“I'm going on a journey with the patient. How do they sit? What do their shoes look like on the bottom? Love stress, work stress, family stress — they all create different physiological responses in the body. The pain is real. But so is everything that caused it.”
Serving patients across Ringwood, Totowa, Clifton, and Northern New Jersey.
