We Will Get You Out of Pain and Back to a Life You Love

Pain and injuries associated with muscles, joints, and nerves have been successfully treated with John Barnes' Myofascial Release.

Our patients have recovered from everything including headaches and jaw dysfunction, to ankle sprains and knee pain. We see a lot of patients with hip and low back pain and often treat elbow tendonitis and rotator cuff tears. We have a lot of experience treating wrist, hand, and finger pain, and also have a special interest in treating the spine.

If your pain comes from muscles, joints, and/or nerves, we can help if surgery isn’t required. Note: Some of our patients have been told they needed surgery, but their pain resolved with our treatments and were able to cancel their scheduled surgery.

If pain or injuries are keeping them from being active and staying fit, they seek out the highest quality, 1-on-1 care, with professionals that take the time to listen and understand them. Often, they are unable to miss work 2-3 times per week for months at a time because of their busy schedules.

Our treatments only work with the cooperation from our amazing patients. If we find that we are a good fit for each other, we become a team. We then work together to help you accomplish the goals you set for yourself; whether it be to become pain free or to improve your athletic performance. Teamwork makes the dream work.

After experiencing an injury, most people will see a physician. If the injury doesn’t require surgery, they will commonly be prescribed medication(s) to reduce pain, inflammation, and/or muscle spasms followed by a referral to Physical Therapy.

While there is a time and place for these medications, it is important to understand that these medications only address the symptoms associated with your injury (i.e. what you feel regarding pain, swelling, muscle tightness). These medications will NOT treat the cause of your symptoms.

Imagine being on a sinking boat where water is quickly flooding the inside of the boat. Medication(s) would be equivalent to scooping out the water, but what really needs to be addressed is the hole in the boat that’s allowing the water to get in!

Physical Therapy can be used to plug the hole in the boat. However, with traditional Physical Therapy there is a heavy emphasis on using modalities such as heat packs, ice packs, electrical stimulation, and ultrasound. Unfortunately, research shows that these modalities won’t provide long-term relief. Using these outdated modalities, often seen in traditional settings, is just another way of scooping water out of the sinking boat.

So how do you plug the hole in the boat? The answer lies in what’s newly considered the largest organ in the human body – Fascia. Fascia is a connective tissue that runs from head to toe, connects to all organs, and very commonly causes a person’s dysfunction. With skilled application of hands-on John Barnes' Myofascial Release, these soft tissue injuries can be guided back to an optimal position. When an optimal arrangement of the soft tissue structures is restored, pain, weakness, and movement limitations associated with an injury can improve immediately.

Many factors including time span from the original injury, age, and other underlying causes of pain can affect how quickly a patient responds to treatment. However, using our treatment methods to directly influence the fascial system usually resolves pain and injuries much faster than other clinics that don’t understand and treat fascia.

With our fascia-focused manual therapy techniques and functional exercises, combined with full 45 minute 1-on-1 treatment sessions, our patients normally recover in far fewer visits than they would at many other physical therapy clinics.

As soon as possible! Generally the longer you delay getting treated, the longer it will take to rehab the injury. And the longer an injury stays in a distorted and injured state, the harder it is to move the fascial tissues back to its pre-injury condition. 

Also, you will likely lose strength after sustaining an injury which can induce harmful “movement compensations.” These compensations can cause injuries to other areas of your body further hampering your ability to return to doing the activities you enjoy.

It is in your best interest to get treated early if you want to get back to 100% in as few sessions as possible. That being said, we have successfully treated many patients who had been coping with pain for years. These patients were still able to make significant improvements with their conditions after being treated with Myofascial Release.

Every one of our patients is treated as a unique individual. We address your whole body, not just the part that hurts or is injured. Our goal is to understand exactly what is going on, the root cause of the problem and why it's important to you for us to help you solve the issue. You will be prescribed a specific treatment plan which is designed to address the problems responsible for your pain and symptoms and help you return to an active life as soon as possible.

Myofascial Release Therapy is not a "quick fix" and you should expect to put in some work, however many people do feel relief within their first few visits. Most people experience a change or significant difference within 3 to 5 treatments and we typically have work to do even once your pain and symptoms have subsided because our goal is to help you become stronger and more resilient to this ever happening again.

It is impossible to predict the exact number of visits you will need as everyone's individual challenges are unique. Our typical patient is seen approximately for 1 visit a week, for about 8 visits and we'll know more specifically once we see you in the clinic. This is why we offer a Myofascial Posture Diagnostic, so you can get a clear understanding of what's going on and how long it may take to resolve before you commit to becoming our patient.

Every patient is taught how to treat themselves at home using self-treatment techniques, modified yoga poses, activity modification strategies and corrective exercises. You will receive a personalized treatment program for treatment and long term prevention of your condition so you can stay fit, healthy, and mobile without needing more pain medications, injections or surgery.

Like anything in life, you will get out of this what you put into it. The results you get are up to you. We can promise that if you commit to the process and put in the work, you will see results.