About Us
Gentle Pain Release is transforming the world of physical health care, serving our community with effective reliable therapy for more than 20 years.
We identify the source of musculoskeletal pain, help you resolve it, and teach you how to keep it that way. Skillful hands-on work and paying attention go a long way in building health.
Our expert therapists represent 120 years of combined practice and teaching in Myofascial Release (Barnes; Whitridge), Craniosacral Therapy (Upledger; Milne), Structural Integration and Neuromuscular Therapy (Florida School of Massage), and other integrative bodywork.
Patients are sometimes reluctant to try physical therapy after prior
painful experiences. We will not run you through exercise protocols on gym machines. Instead, our gentle approach involves first enhancing the health of your muscles, bones, and connective tissues with hands-on therapies proven to resolve pain. Then we work on building strength, coordination, and movement.
We help people with fibromyalgia, headaches and migraines, TMJ issues, scoliosis and spinal imbalances, chronic back, neck, and joint pain, sciatica, and issues with gait and balance.
Many patients report pain relief on their first visit, and results lasting longer than with previous treatments. This is true physical medicine.
We identify the source of musculoskeletal pain, help you resolve it, and teach you how to keep it that way. Skillful hands-on work and paying attention go a long way in building health.
Our expert therapists represent 120 years of combined practice and teaching in Myofascial Release (Barnes; Whitridge), Craniosacral Therapy (Upledger; Milne), Structural Integration and Neuromuscular Therapy (Florida School of Massage), and other integrative bodywork.
Patients are sometimes reluctant to try physical therapy after prior
painful experiences. We will not run you through exercise protocols on gym machines. Instead, our gentle approach involves first enhancing the health of your muscles, bones, and connective tissues with hands-on therapies proven to resolve pain. Then we work on building strength, coordination, and movement.
We help people with fibromyalgia, headaches and migraines, TMJ issues, scoliosis and spinal imbalances, chronic back, neck, and joint pain, sciatica, and issues with gait and balance.
Many patients report pain relief on their first visit, and results lasting longer than with previous treatments. This is true physical medicine.
About Pain
Pain is useful information that protects us from doing further tissue damage, and guides us to pay attention to how we move. Understanding and interpreting that information is vital. In this age of over information, learning about the human body can be both fascinating and daunting. An important part of our practice is to help you learn about the mechanics and physiology of your body and how to work with it.
Skeletal muscle is voluntary, meaning that
it's actions are dependent on nerve signals.
Chronic posture and movement patterns create signal loops,
called reflex arcs, that continue outside our awareness.
Manual therapy directly brings these patterns to our conscious attention,
allowing us to change them for the better.
Our therapists work deliberately and gently to reduce restrictions
and get you feeling like yourself again,
without causing more pain that would re-start the patterns.
Skeletal muscle is voluntary, meaning that
it's actions are dependent on nerve signals.
Chronic posture and movement patterns create signal loops,
called reflex arcs, that continue outside our awareness.
Manual therapy directly brings these patterns to our conscious attention,
allowing us to change them for the better.
Our therapists work deliberately and gently to reduce restrictions
and get you feeling like yourself again,
without causing more pain that would re-start the patterns.
About Massage & Bodywork Therapy
Bodywork is an ancient form of people caring for each other, and includes countless modalities, methods, and styles of massage therapy and hands-on soft tissue manipulation. Even early human fossils bear evidence of fractures reset and injuries healed by companions.
Our painfully modern world calls for compassion, empathy, and skillful healing work. Ancient hands-on techniques are practiced today as Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapy.
Injuries, aging, or just busy life can cause habitual tension, dysfunction, and pain. We may succeed in ignoring these symptoms...until they demand our full attention.
This is the role of manual therapy - to skillfully explore these conditions,
bring them into focus, and design and implement effective treatment plans to relieve and resolve your pain.
The skill and art of evaluation and treatment take time. Each appointment provides one hour of individual care in a private treatment room.
You and your therapist will develop a treatment plan that suits your goals and lifestyle. You'll also learn self care skills to maintain results with customized methods that are easy and effective.
We integrate ancient techniques with advanced clinical understanding
to offer you true physical medicine. A scientific approach with a bit of added magic...
Please refer to our techniques pages to learn more about bodywork modalities.
Our painfully modern world calls for compassion, empathy, and skillful healing work. Ancient hands-on techniques are practiced today as Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapy.
Injuries, aging, or just busy life can cause habitual tension, dysfunction, and pain. We may succeed in ignoring these symptoms...until they demand our full attention.
This is the role of manual therapy - to skillfully explore these conditions,
bring them into focus, and design and implement effective treatment plans to relieve and resolve your pain.
The skill and art of evaluation and treatment take time. Each appointment provides one hour of individual care in a private treatment room.
You and your therapist will develop a treatment plan that suits your goals and lifestyle. You'll also learn self care skills to maintain results with customized methods that are easy and effective.
We integrate ancient techniques with advanced clinical understanding
to offer you true physical medicine. A scientific approach with a bit of added magic...
Please refer to our techniques pages to learn more about bodywork modalities.