Walt Fritz, PT and the Pain Relief Center

The Pain Relief Center is a unique clinic that provides highly individualized one-on-one treatment for the relief of pain, helping you return to a fully functional lifestyle. Utilizing manual therapy,  Walt is able to address problems that have not responded to previous surgeries, therapies, exercise, and medications, bringing about positive and lasting changes. “Pain Relief” is a rather narrow term when it comes to describing the work Walt uses, as not all clients come as a result of pain. Many are simply looking to regain a quality of life that they are missing.

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Walt Fritz, PT

Walt Fritz is a licensed physical therapist with a B.S. in Physical Therapy (1985) and a B.A. in Community Mental Health (1984) from SUNY Buffalo. He has began practicing Myofascial Release (MFR) in 1992 and is the most experienced practitioner in the Central and Western New York region, including Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, and the Southern Tier. Over the past ten years he has advanced the MFR work he learned and taught and now simply calls his work, “manual therapy”. While there are many reasons for this updated name, much of it is due to the underlying concepts used to explain its effects. Healthcare is full of unsubstantiated claims. Helping someone with the work you do is not equivalent to those results validating the claims made.

Walt teaches his Foundations in Manual Therapy Seminars around the world to physical therapists, massage therapists, speech-language pathologists, and occupational therapists. With over 30 years of experience as a physical therapist, he is able to combine the best of traditional physical therapy interventions with the state of the art methods of Myofascial Release.

You have many choices when it comes to your health care; consider the Pain Relief Center first.

Walt Fritz, PT

Since beginning work as a manual therapy educator in the mid-1990s, US-based physical therapist Walt Fritz has more recently evolved into teaching a unique interpretation of manual therapy for speech-language pathologists, registered dental hygienists, voice professionals, and related communities. His approach advances views of causation and impact from historical tissue-specific models into a multifactorial narrative, leaning heavily on biopsychosocial influences. His principles apply to a broad spectrum of intervention models using a model of evaluation and intervention that incorporates shared decision-making rather than clinician-as-expert. Unlike traditional laryngeal and soft tissue manipulation, Walt offers the clinician and patient a more subtle approach, one often much better tolerated, aligning well with newer research findings and allowing the patient to frame the intervention from their preferences and values. Seeing the utility of manual therapy not as a standalone treatment but as an integral part of clinicians’ more extensive body of work, Walt makes his approach easily assimilated into those treatment protocols.

Walt presents his workshops internationally through his Foundations in Manual Therapy Seminars, www.WaltFritz.com, presents online courses, has a book scheduled for release in late 2022 titled “Manual Therapy in Voice and Swallowing: A Person-Centered Approach,” and maintains a physical therapy practice in Upstate, NY, USA.