Physical Therapy
At Myofascial Healing and Pilates, you will receive one-on-one treatment, with complete dedication and focus on your treatment and recovery. Whether you are about to have surgery, recovering from surgery or are dealing with a chronic condition, our physical therapist will work with you to create a plan to restore your quality of life.
Our Physical Therapy Services include a customized, holistic, whole body approach using Myofascial Release and Pilates Rehabilitation.
This level of specialized attention is only possible without medical insurance companies dictating diagnosis-based treatment. Insurance-based physical therapy is limited to addressing only the areas of dysfunction, however that approach does not address the root of the problem. Usually, where the pain is felt is not the origin of the problem.
For example, shoulder pain can be a result of a misaligned pelvis or a neck issue. By not being able to treat the body as a whole, the results are extremely limited and often temporary.
We use a whole-body approach to find and treat the cause of the problem to return to the activites you enjoy!
Myofascial Release
John F. Barnes’ Myofascial Release Approach (MFR) addresses the entire body by using sustained gentle pressure into the fascia that is held for a minimum of 5 minutes to release restrictions that cause tension and pain.
Physical and emotional trauma, inflammation and/or restrictions can produce 2,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on pain sensitive structures such as nerves and blood vessels.
This amount of pressure can move bones out of alignment and cause significant impact throughout the body. If not addressed, restrictions continue and the body systems are unable to function properly.
MFR Treats The Entire System.
It affects the mind/body connection by eliminating the restrictions in the fascia that may have started from physical or emotional trauma.
We offer individualized Myofascial Release Therapy.
For more intensive treatment, Multiple therapists combine techniques for an unparalled level of care.
Pilates
Myofascial Healing and Pilates is proud to bring the Polestar® method of Pilates to Juno Beach, Florida. Polestar® is a rehabilitative form of Pilates that combines the Pilates principles with the current scientific understanding of movement.
Reformer Pilates is a truly unique form of exercise that uses machines with springs to stretch and strengthen every part of the body, from the core to the extremities. It combines very specific movements in relation to the breath and awareness of body mechanics.
Each class is a personalized, specific, and safe method of strengthening for all body types, age groups and abilities. This method uses principles of body alignment, breath, and specific exercises with sequencing to effectively eliminate poor inefficient patterns. The result is a stronger body with greater ability for freedom and ease of movement.
With our trained and certified Pilates instructors, you will attain functional goals while being effectively instructed. Your specific needs will be taken into consideration with every lesson.
Private classes taught by our experienced resident physical therapist blend the knowledge of Polestar® Rehabilitative Pilates with effective physical therapy.
Pilates was designed to optimize your performance, develop mental awareness, and promote whole body health. Developed by Joseph Pilates almost a decade ago mainly for rehabilitation, Pilates strengthens and challenges your body safely using specific exercise sequencing and principles.
Accelerated Healing Program
The Accelerated Healing Program provides a profound level of care that will help change chronic pain patterns. It is designed to jumpstart your healing process.
Our program consists of intense treatments to help release painful fascial restrictions that have been causing debilitating problems, so that the body can return to optimum alignment and function. Pilates is then introduced to reinforce structural alignment and balance. The minimum program length is 5 days, however each person is different and a longer program may be necessary for chronic conditions.
Why this works
Myofascial Release improves the alignment of the body, releasing restrictions that have over time caused significant fascial tension. Fascial tension can cause blood vessels and nerves to be compressed. Myofascial Release can release the fascia, which liberates the pain sensitive nerves and blood vessels, creating healthy, pain-free movement. Once restrictions are released and structural alignment has been resolved, we reinforce mind-body connection and structural integrity with Rehabilitative Pilates.
For those who have more complex conditions, we may recommend a longer duration.
This Program is ideal for those who:
- Suffer from chronic pain that other forms of therapy haven’t helped
- Have experienced trauma
- Understand the emotional side of pain
- Want an individualized healing journey
Athletic Optimization Program
Our Performance Optimization Program is for people who are committed to improving their overall physical well-being in order to enhance personal performance in their professional or recreational sport or activity. It is a one or two-week, Monday through Friday commitment.
Performance Optimization starts with a functional assessment by our physical therapist to best determine your individual needs. You will be treated with multiple Myofascial Release sessions to release restrictions and align your body. The sessions are focused on improving the mobility of your joints, muscles, rib cage, diaphragm, and areas that may be causing inefficient movement patterns.
Multiple private Pilates sessions are then used to reinforce your newly aligned body, focusing on balance, alignment, and strength, maximizing movement efficiency. With your goals in mind, we create a plan specifically designed for you. The length of your program is determined by your desired outcome.
One-week program:
For anyone who wants to
improve their athletic ability.
Two-week program:
For athletes who want to optimize
their performance for competition.
What to expect during your treatment
At your first session, your therapist will review your health history and perform a visual postural evaluation.
Every session, your therapist will do a physical assessment to see and feel where the restrictions are coming from. These areas of restrictions are contributing to your pain, discomfort or other symptoms.
During your treatment, your therapist will apply skilled manual techniques into areas of tension to soften the areas of restriction.
Sometimes sensations like buzzing, tingling, discomfort or other sensations arise when a technique is being applied. It might be felt in the area being treated or elsewhere in your body. This is due to the fascia.
You may feel like stretching or moving your body during the session. Let it happen.
Old traumas are held in restricted fascia and when the restrictions release, it can bring up the emotions and/or memories of the trauma.
By letting yourself feel fully, you are more able to release completely. Your therapist is skilled to assist and guide you in this process.
If at anytime you feel uncomfortable or if a technique is creating too much discomfort, please let your therapist know and the therapist will adjust their touch.
What is Fascia
Fascia is what gives your body its shape.
It is a three-dimensional web that surrounds and connects your skin to muscles, muscle fibers to each other, muscles to bones, bone to bone, and all the way down to the cell membrane without interruption. In other words, it connects every part of your entire body to every other part and it provides structure through it’s wire-like tensioned framework.
Healthy fascia is moist, pliable, and fluid. When your experience physical or emotional trauma, your fascia dehydrates, adheres to itself and other structures, hardens, shortens, and pulls the rest of your body out of alignment. The result is an inefficient body with limited function and pain.
One of the problems with traditional therapy is that doctors and other diagnosticians are unable to accurately diagnose problems in the fascial system, as fascia does not show up on diagnostic tests. If doctors can’t see it, they don’t treat it.
Pain caused by fascial restrictions are often treated with medications, and medications only treat the painful symptoms and not the cause of the dysfunction.
Your fascial restrictions will not disappear if left untreated.
Restrictions that pull the body out of alignment will significantly impact your entire system. They can compress pain sensitive structures such as nerves and blood vessels and the function of the organ systems.
Myofascial release treats the fascial system, releasing restricted areas that give rise to pain and dysfunction. This work affects the entire mind/body connection by eliminating the restrictions in the fascia that are causing the symptoms.
If restrictions remain, your pain can also become chronic, and your quality of life will be significantly affected.
“Strolling Under the Skin”
Dr. Jean Claude Guimberteau®
Group Pilates
Learn how to use your body efficiently to produce the best results in a small class, boutique setting. Certified instructors will provide you with close supervision, using verbal and imagery cues to help you attain postural awareness and energy efficient movement. Our reformer classes are grouped by levels to maximize your potential.
Classes Offered
Fundamentals: Level 1-1.5
Movement Integration: Level 2
Align the Spine: Level 1-1.5
Two-week program:
Individual classes – $40
Package of 10 classes – $350 ($35 per class)
Package of 20 classes – $600 ($30 per class)
Private Pilates
Private Pilates classes are one-on-one. Our trained and certified Pilates Instructors will teach you with your functional goals in mind. You will experience faster results as each exercise is chosen for your specific needs.
Private Pilates
Individual 60 minutes sessions – $100 with Pilates Instructor
Package of 10 sessions – $950 with Pilates Instructor
Individual 60 minutes sessions – $125 with Senior Pilates Instructor
About Us
It is true that a common activity can bring people together. For the women of Myofascial Healing and Pilates, that is definitely the case. They had an instant connection from their common love of Myofascial Release and their innate desire to help others.
When Roxana Molina-Lopez, MSPT, NCPT moved to the Palm Beaches, she met a fellow Myofascial Release practitioner Jeann Brick at a Myofascial Study group. A month later, she and Rachel O’Neill met by chance at Women in Bizz, a networking group for women in Palm Beach North. Rachel is also a Myofascial Release practitioner. From the moment they met, they knew it was something special.
They talked everyday and worked through detail after detail. Four months later Myofascial Healing and Pilates officially was born.
Myofascial Healing and Pilates is a state-of-the-art Physical Therapy clinic in Juno Beach. We specialize in Physical Therapy, Myofascial Release Therapy and Rehabilitative Pilates.
Every patient receives the best concierge care catered to their individual needs.
Therapists
Roxana Molina-Lopez, MSPT, NCPT
Roxana is the owner of TheraHands Physical Therapy in Miami, FL, and co-owner of Myofascial Healing Center and Pilates in Juno Beach, FL, along with her partner, Rachel O’Neill.
Inspired to go into healthcare by her grandparents, Roxana has dedicated her life to her passion. She truly enjoys helping others find their balance in whole body healthcare, using physical therapy, Myofascial Release and Rehabilitative Pilates. She believes that by educating her patients, they have the greatest opportunity to heal. Her grandfather was a prominent podiatrist in Cuba and her grandmother regularly attended those in need at her church in Havana. This dedication to helping others is an intrinsic part of Roxana’s life.
Born in Cuba, Roxana immigrated to South Florida in 1982. As a teenager, she volunteered over 3,000 hours at several physical therapy clinics at local hospitals. She received her Master’s in Physical Therapy from Florida International University in Miami, FL, nearly two decades ago. Since then, she has specialized in concierge orthopedic and geriatric physical therapy and wellness through her Miami based company, Therahands.
Roxana’s extensive training in Rehabilitative Pilates and the John F. Barnes Approach to Myofascial Release gives her patients a unique healing experience. She is certified in Pilates Rehabilitation from Polestar®, as well as the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA). For several years, she taught at Polestar® in South Miami and she is an active mentor for Polestar® education. As a practitioner, Roxana goes above and beyond to educate, heal, and guide her patients and clients to attain and surpass their goals so that they can live a life of maximum potential, free from pain and dysfunction.
Rachel O’Neill, LMT
When people are hurting, it is not uncommon for their lives to be severely impacted. Rachel O’Neill, LMT knows this firsthand. While working as a chef, she fell and fractured her tailbone and sacrum. For 15 years, she struggled with debilitating hip and sciatic pain. Sitting for long periods of time was impossible as was walking long distances.
To find relief, Rachel tried anything that was recommended to her. After the Orthopedic surgeon did a slew of tests, he couldn’t find a reason for her pain and wanted to do surgery. She ran from his office and tried other treatments, like chiropractic, acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, massage therapy and physical therapy. She never found relief.
After a particularly painful experience at an insurance-based Physical Therapy office, Rachel’s pain and dysfunction was at an all-time high. Someone recommended Myofascial Release. With nothing left to lose, she made an appointment.
That appointment changed her life forever. Not only did Myofascial Release address the root cause of her pain and dysfunction, she went back to school to become a massage therapist. She bacame a Myofascial Release therapist so that she could help others find a resolution to their dysfunction and end their pain.. It also brought her partner, mentor and friend Roxana Molina-Lopez into her life.
Rachel O’Neill, LMT is the Co-founder of Myofascial Healing Center. She manages the day to day business at Myofascial Healing Center as well as a treats her clients as a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Myofascial Release Therapist.
Jeann Brick, LMT
in 2008 a friend recommended a book to Jeann by John F. Barnes, the “father” of Myofascial Release – and she never looked back.
Since then, Jeann has devoted her professional career as a massage therapist to mastering the principles and developing her artistry of this extraordinary work.
Credentialed at the expert level in the Barnes method, and licensed in both Florida and Hawaii, she is thrilled to join with Roxy and Rachel in providing the highest level of compassionate care to the clients of Myofascial Healing and Pilates.
Instructors
Roxana Molina-Lopez, MSPT, NCPT
Roxana is the owner of TheraHands Physical Therapy in Miami, FL, and co-owner of Myofascial Healing Center and Pilates in Juno Beach, FL, along with her partner, Rachel O’Neill.
Inspired to go into healthcare by her grandparents, Roxana has dedicated her life to her passion. She truly enjoys helping others find their balance in whole body healthcare, using physical therapy, Myofascial Release and Rehabilitative Pilates. She believes that by educating her patients, they have the greatest opportunity to heal. Her grandfather was a prominent podiatrist in Cuba and her grandmother regularly attended those in need at her church in Havana. This dedication to helping others is an intrinsic part of Roxana’s life.
Born in Cuba, Roxana immigrated to South Florida in 1982. As a teenager, she volunteered over 3,000 hours at several physical therapy clinics at local hospitals. She received her Master’s in Physical Therapy from Florida International University in Miami, FL, nearly two decades ago. Since then, she has specialized in concierge orthopedic and geriatric physical therapy and wellness through her Miami based company, Therahands.
Roxana’s extensive training in Rehabilitative Pilates and the John F. Barnes Approach to Myofascial Release gives her patients a unique healing experience. She is certified in Pilates Rehabilitation from Polestar®, as well as the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA). For several years, she taught at Polestar® in South Miami and she is an active mentor for Polestar® education. As a practitioner, Roxana goes above and beyond to educate, heal, and guide her patients and clients to attain and surpass their goals so that they can live a life of maximum potential, free from pain and dysfunction.
Pamela Mortemore, PT
Pamela Mortemore recently moved from Fort Lauderdale to Jupiter, Florida. She is a Licensed Physical Therapist who graduated in 1995 from Florida International University. After surgery in 1997 for hip labrum tears from years of ballet, Pamela pursued a non-conventional treatment of Pilates rehabilitation for her recovery. Her recovery was so successful she began her training in Pilates at Polestar® Education and was certified in July of 2000, as a Certified Polestar® Pilates Practitioner of Rehabilitation. Pamela founded Body Kinetics of Florida in October of 2002 knowing the positive benefit of Pilates-Evolved training and began offering it to her patients and clients. Pamela began receiving referrals from the University of Miami Neurosurgical Department because they also believed in the importance of core strengthening before and after surgery.
Pamela was introduced in 2005 to the Gyrotonic Expansion System® and in June of 2007 was certified as a Gyrotonic level I instructor. She began tailoring programs for her patients and clients for successful recoveries from spinal and orthopedic surgeries as well as other acute and chronic pain syndromes.
She has continued her education in the Gyrotonic Expansion System® with an attestation of Level II and certifications on the specialized equipment, Leg Extension Unit, Jumping-Stretching–Board, and the GYROTONER®. Pamela was also certified as a Gyrokinesis® Level I instructor to give her patients and clients exercises for continual progress away from the practice.
In her practice at Body Kinetics of Florida, Pamela has had the privilege of treating and training professional athletes from the NBA, NFL, NHL, Equestrians and Olympic Gold medalists. She has also trained young ballet students from the Art of Classical Ballet in Pompano Beach, Florida and has watched them compete for scholarships to attend the Royal Ballet School in London. Today these students are dancing at the English National Ballet and the prestigious Vienna State Opera Ballet Company.
Pamela closed Body Kinetics of Florida in December 2016 after moving North with her husband.
Pamela is committed to developing the health and well-being of her patients and clients by teaching them core stabilization exercises that will last a lifetime.
Raechel Sparreo
Born and raised in Buffalo Grove, IL, Raechel has always had a love for movement ever since she found dance at the age of 3. At 15 she moved to Miami after receiving a full scholarship to attend the Miami City Ballet School. Upon graduation, Raechel received a contract to dance professionally with the Miami City Ballet. During her time with the company she danced corps de ballet and soloist roles in theaters around the U.S. including the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center.
Raechel is certified by BASI Pilates with a Dance Specialization. Pilates has been very significant to her throughout her dance career for rehabilitation purposes and injury prevention. Her dance training and education gives her a unique eye for correct mechanics and technique. She is so excited to share her knowledge of movement with others.
Contact Us
561 476 0440
info@myohealing.com
Myofascial Healing & Pilates
14241 U.S. Highway 1
Juno Beach, FL 33408
Location
Myofascial Healing and Pilates is located at Loggerhead Plaza in Palm Beach North.
We are just a few miles east of 95, just north on Donald Ross Road on U.S. Highway 1 in Juno Beach.