The history behind TherapyWorks

TherapyWorks was started in April 1998. It is an outpatient clinic specializing in the treatment of musculosketal pain.

Patients are treated using a variety of manual techniques including Myofascial Release, Craniosacral Therapy, Trigger Point Release, Muscle Energy Mobilization.

Conditions successfully treated at TherapyWorks include: headaches, migraines, TMJ dysfunction, myofascial / musculoskeletal pain anywhere in the body.

Courses

Over many years of learning, practicing and integrating a wide variety of techniques and philosophies, Laurie has developed a unique synergy of skills that is very effective in the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal/myofascial pain.

Laurie developed these courses to share this unique synergy in a comprehensive, systematic approach that will teach you how to confidently evaluate and treat your patients.

B I O G R A P H Y: L A U R I E C O N N O L L Y

Laurie Connolly OTR is a licensed occupational therapist, who graduated from the University of Alberta in 1983. She practiced traditional Occupational Therapy from 1983 to 1998 in various settings, including home health, skilled nursing facilities and school districts.

Beginning in 1998, she began studying Myofascial Release with John Barnes. After completed all fourteen courses she became the first instructor for Myofascial Release in the state of Washington in 2001.

She began studying Craniosacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute in 2000 and is an advanced practitioner in this modality.

In 2004-2005 she completed the Janet G. Travell Seminar Series in Bethesda, Maryland, in the treatment of Myofascial Pain Syndrome. Laurie is the only occupational therapist in the country to complete this training series, and was invited to join the faculty as their occupational therapy consultant.

She has completed many other manual therapy seminars in muscle energy techniques and mobilizations.

She is a member of the American and Washington Occupational Therapy Associations and International Myopain Society.

Laurie is the owner of TherapyWorks, an outpatient clinic specializing in the treatment of acute and chronic pain.