Comprehensive Myofascial Release Therapy in Salt Lake City
Gentle, Effective Pain Resolution Fused with Coaching Support
Our Mission
Release Works aims to help people (like you!) get out of their pain and recover bodies that feel good, move well, and work for them through repair and healthy movement.
Our Vision
We strive to create a world where people live with less pain, fear, and stress and embrace life with more joy and happiness!
Our Approach
Be the Lighthouse, Not the Tugboat
We’re here to guide you, not force you into any one solution or direction. We are happy to be your signal of hope for a healthier, happier life when you’re ready—no pulling or wrestling here! You’ll find a gentle yet strong and steadfast approach.
Inspire Self-Belief
After years of pain and unsuccessful solutions, you may be disheartened. As long as you are committed to making a change and reclaiming your physical freedom, we will help you rewrite your story—and believe in you even more than you believe in yourself.
Provide Genuine Help with Heart
We strive to deliver a more caring and effective experience than you’ve had elsewhere. While we practice compassion, we’ll also be direct, explain ALL your options, and advise what is best for restoring and maintaining your long-term health and vitality.
Life Can Be So Much Better Than You’ve Been Led To Believe.
Life is meant to be enjoyed! Just because you’ve suffered an injury, some form of trauma, or another health setback doesn’t mean you should have to live with chronic pain and discomfort for the rest of your life.
For far too long, “sick care” and “pain management” have been accepted as the norm. Because of what we’ve been taught, many people settle for far less than what their body is truly meant to experience. We are here to change that.
Release Works is a Salt Lake City clinic focused on resolving the source of pain rather than coping and compensating for problems. We do this with a blend of myofascial release therapy, coaching, and healthy movement. From persistent pain and stiffness caused by past injuries or surgeries to conditions like fibromyalgia and carpal tunnel, you’ll receive a tailored approach and plan.
Our practice believes a body that is breaking down is usually one that has lost its ability to move well. Pain is often simply the signal that tissues are stuck and glued, with your body coping and compensating for unresolved past issues.
But there is an alternative to relying on pain medications, spending more time and money on ineffective therapies and techniques that only look at the symptom (e.g., when physical therapists only use ultrasound and strengthen weak muscles while paying no attention to the underlying distortions of the fascial system), undergoing another surgery, or simply living with it.
You CAN reclaim a vibrant life and a body that moves well and feels good. You just need the right experts to get you through it—those who have been through their own healing experiences. At Release Works, we’re passionate about what we do because we’ve been there. We know what obstacles you’ll face and how to help you overcome them.
And we know it’s possible for you to feel good again and live your life the way you want!
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Founded by Michael Sudbury, LMT
Michael Sudbury, LMT | Founder & Owner
When I first began on this path to massage and then myofascial release therapy, I still had a primarily left-brain, analytical mindset. Of course, this is prominent in healthcare and science. However, this approach tends to dismiss the mind and body as a whole.
“Here Are 3 People We’ve Helped Recently”
Please enjoy watching these case-studies of other people just like you who came to see the therapy team at Release Works - and left much healthier and happier within just a couple of weeks:
Brent
Brent (50s), had been getting progressively tighter and stiffer over the past decade, just like his father had, when he reached out to us. He was experiencing pain in his low back and SI joints area. He was still able to play golf without much pain, but was achy and sore in a bad way for a few days afterwards. It was slowing him down, and of course his boy was now beating him at his own game.
He walked in to the clinic and announced he was a skeptic, but willing to give it a shot.
It wasn’t long before he was amazed. He was feeling things change and loosen that he hadn’t been aware needed it (mostly his hips and chest) – and the pains in his back and legs were starting to fade. He started to realize he wasn’t doomed to the same experience as his father. When he was able to play a full 18 rounds, with no pain the next day, he was so pleased. But the bonus was that he trounced his son that game too, hitting the ball further and straighter than he’d been able to before.
Shauna
When Shauna first started seeing us, her goal was to be active for many years and avoid the breakdown she had seen in her mom. She was looking for help to get ready for golfing and biking in the spring. We helped her meet and exceed her goals and she completed more than one 100 mile bike ride over the summer. Then disaster happened.
Shauna had a fall and broke her knee cap in half. Screws had to be surgically placed to hold the 2 pieces together again. Recovery was a tough road and there were moments when it was difficult to even get out of a chair. She spent quite awhile sleeping in a recliner because it was too painful to get in and out of bed. She spent more than 10 weeks in a leg brace and knew she needed help to get moving again. Physical therapy was excruciating as the therapist would aggressively force her knee through painful movements. Shauna was told this was necessary if she wanted to walk again and that she needed to break up the scar tissue. Thanks to her previous experiences with us, Shauna knew there was another way and began to add weekly appointments at Release Works to her recovery plan.
Within a few weeks, the physical therapist had stopped telling her to be more aggressive in breaking up scar tissue and even commented on how well she was walking. It wasn’t long before Shauna was discharged from physical therapy even though she did not yet have full range of motion in her leg and was still experiencing pain with walking down hills or stairs. Recovery is slower than Shauna wants, but her knee continues to improve and pain is now minimal. She still has weekly sessions here to help her with that recovery. She has returned to golfing and is walking daily with her friends.
Kristal
Kristal (20s) was already trapped when she found us, her back tightening in pain. She’d been seeing chiropractors and physical therapists since 12 and 15 years of age with only a little bit of temporary relief. She’d given up on being athletic and could hardly be all that active even. Now she was sitting at a desk, trying to be productive but getting even more hunched as her head and back ached.
I remember she couldn’t even begin to arch her spine backwards her spine and ribs were so rigid. She had no clue how that was supposed to work in her body and couldn’t feel the movement at all. (There wasn’t any…)
She was pretty excited coming in one day to show how something had shifted, almost unlocked, and she could get her back arching a little bit.
Kristal has been in less and less back pain, with greatly reduced headaches. She also had a bit of a scare over a cyst putting lots of pressure into her abdomen – these things can be pretty dangerous. Once she felt it reduce and shrink as we treated the area, however, she had no more concern. She was right – medical tests showed we’d helped the cyst to completely disappear.
Kristal is now a big fan of ours as she’s had her headaches and back pain greatly reduced, and she’s back to running and being active. Her life is looking much brighter.