Pain Free Maryland LLC | Health & Beauty

  "Before coming to Michele Macomber for myofascial trigger point therapy I was in tremendous pain, every day relying on medications just to get through. After our very first appointment I knew we were onto something amazing: for just a few hours, I was pain-free! That gave me hope.Every appointment she listened and tailored my treatment to my needs. Because of my conditions, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and EDS-induced Fibromyalgia, progress was slow, but there was always progress. Within a few short months, I was able to get to sleep without any medications. Within a few more months and I was able to sleep through the night. For me, my pain will never be gone, but Michele made it manageable and gave me the tools to help myself feel better in between visits. The therapy I have had with her has helped me erase the haze that severe pain and medications cast over my life. I cannot thank her enough; she is fantastic!"RSStay-At-Home-MomElkridge, MD

"Several years ago I spent a day hammering in about a hundred fence posts with a big heavy mallet. The continuous violent movement of bending my back as I swung the mallet downwards from above my head caused a lower vertebra to move and damage a nerve, after which I suffered acute and debilitating back pain. The injury left me barely able to sit or walk without pain and sciatica for more than five years. After exhausting all conventional medical approaches to my problem I had pretty much become resigned to a life of limited mobility and constant discomfort which could only be relieved by lying flat on my back.Through family contacts I heard about Michele Macomber, a myofascial trigger point therapist in the States, and on a subsequent visit to the U.S. made an appointment with her. This was the first time in over five years of treatment that anyone had explained that it was actually my muscles, continuously reacting to the past injury, that were perpetuating the problem. The injury itself had to a large extent healed, so conventional medicine was unable to explain the ongoing symptoms.Given the sensitive nature of my back I had avoided any kind of stretching exercises for fear of doing further damage, but the initial consultation gave me the confidence to undertake the prescribed stretching regime. Subsequent manipulation and continued exercise enabled me to gradually stretch tendons and muscles which had been locked up tight for years and as such had been vulnerable to all but the slightest exercise.Although I still have some residual numbness from the original nerve damage, today I am otherwise pain free and fully mobile. It is myofascial trigger point therapy which has led to the dramatic and ongoing improvement in my condition and transformed my quality of life, allowing me to engage in all normal levels of activity again."JVLandscape ArchitectSomerset, United Kingdom

"Ten years ago I injured my back lifting my toddler in a bad way. The next day I could hardly move. I spent two uncomfortable days lying in bed, unable to get up or move without extreme difficulty and pain until thankfully Michele came out to the house to treat me. When she arrived, she applied focused pressure on some trigger points in my back, and within 20 minutes she had me feeling completely normal! I was dumbfounded. Subsequently I kept an appointment I had already made with an orthopedist. He found no sign of disc damage on the X-rays, and then taking no other corrective actions, prescribed pain killers and muscle relaxants. I did not bother filling his prescriptions. They turned out to be unnecessary as I was already feeling so much better from the stretches and movements that Michele had recommended. Myofascial trigger point therapy restored my mobility and enabled me to recover quickly with minimal pain. I strongly recommend consulting a myofascial trigger point therapist to anybody who could potentially benefit as I did."Structural EngineerDoswell, VA