Jeffrey Rothman is a lifelong martial artist with an instructor's level black belt from UFC pioneer and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu legend Joao Paulo Faria, and renowned Jiu-Jitsu competitor and self defense expert Jarrod Anderson. He has a brown belt in Oyama Karate under the legendary Sheguru Oyama. Jeffrey has complimented his martial arts teachings with his thirty years of experience in movement therapy as an occupational therapist under the training of Leslie Kane, manager of occupational therapy at the prestigious New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and author of the movement therapy chapter of the definitive stroke rehabilitation textbook: Stroke Rehabilitation, A Function-Based Approach.