Why do people pick a physical therapist based on location?

This just doesn't make sense. You need to see a specialist - a physical therapist specialist. You need to come to the Spine Center. Therapy here is different. Very different. Our therapists have a passion for backs. They can take care of yours.

The McKenzie Method ® is a program of assessment, treatment and prevention strategies that you will undertake with a physical therapist trained in the McKenzie Method ® philosophy and treatment principles.

McKenzie practitioners emphasize a specific approach to spinal problems, not mere stretches to keep a close step ahead of ever-looming pain. In addition to specific exercises designed to mechanically move the pain toward your spine where it can be more effectively treated, the McKenzie approach includes an overall philosophy and comprehensive course of treatment.

  • Initial assessment procedures determine whether your pain is suited to the McKenzie Method ®'s body-mechanical approach.
  • Once treatment is administered to bring you relief and address the source of pain, a specially-trained and certified physical therapist will work with you and help you to learn self-treatment.
  • Prevention strategies provide you the knowledge to recognize and avoid those movements that compromise your spinal health and beckon recurring pain.

McKenzie Method ®


The goals of the McKenzie Method ® of treatment are to extend the spine, directing pain away from the extremities and toward the spine, ultimately providing pain relief and a return to 'normal' daily life.

By extending the spine - and thereby centralizing the pain - the cause of pain, rather than the symptoms, is treated.

Once you experience pain relief and a return to normal functioning, self-treatment is not only important, but crucial to your ultimate rehabilitation. The McKenzie Method ® of physical therapy can bring you that relief, that return to your normal daily life. Better, perhaps, than what was once normal.

While the ultimate goal of McKenzie Method ® physical therapy is to teach you to manage and self-treat pain, we understand that you need something before attaining long-term goals. You need results now. Initial goals of the treatment include…

  • Decreased pain. And fast.
  • Improved and eventually restored ability to function normally. Every day.
  • Understanding how to avoid recurring pain.
  • Fewer - and fewer - visits to the doctor.

The McKenzie Method ® is neither a health trend nor the latest quick-fix for everyone, but rather a researched, tested and practiced approach to pain relief and restored health. Proven success. Spanning continents and decades.

Since the 1960s, the McKenzie Method ® has been used by physical therapists, chiropractors and doctors around the world. More and more physicians are practicing it. More and more patients are experiencing relief. Don't you owe it to yourself - and those around you - to find relief?

Physical therapists at the Spine Center provide patients with the most patient- and condition- specific approach to pain management. Let us help you determine whether the McKenzie Method ® of physical therapy is an appropriate course of treatment for you. Let us help you be free of pain.