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 and movement,  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 (M.A. from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David forthcoming 2024). He began practicing Myofascial Release (MFR) in 1992 and is the most experienced practitioner in the Central and Western New York region. Over the past ten years, he has advanced the MFR work he learned and taught, and now, he calls his work “manual therapy.” While there are many reasons for this updated name, much is due to the underlying concepts used to explain its effects. Healthcare is full of unsubstantiated claims. Helping someone with your work does not necessarily validate the claims made about that work.

You have many choices regarding your health care; consider the Pain Relief Center first.

Walt presents his workshops internationally through his Foundations in Manual Therapy Seminars, www.WaltFritz.com, presents online courses, has published “Manual Therapy in Voice and Swallowing: A Person-Centered Approach,” a comprehensive guide to manual therapy, had a paper published in Current Opinions in Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, titled The mechanism of action for laryngeal manual therapies: a need for an update” (2024), is a contributing author to the forthcoming 2024 textbook “The Oxford Handbook of Vocal Pedagogy”, and maintains a physical therapy practice in Upstate, NY, USA.