Meet THE FOUNDER.

Why Conventional Medicine Wasn't Enough

Michael Sudbury did not set out to challenge mainstream medicine. He set out to stop hurting.

For eight years, he lived with debilitating chronic pain that did not respond to any conventional approach. He saw the specialists. He completed the programs. He tried the medications, the injections, the procedures. Each one addressed something real — and none of them addressed the actual cause.

The question that changed everything was not "what else can I try?" It was "what is everyone missing?" That question led him to the fascial system — the most pervasive tissue in the human body and the one most consistently overlooked in chronic pain — and it changed the trajectory of his life and career.

The Discovery That Changed Everything

Michael discovered the John F. Barnes Myofascial Release approach during his own search for answers. For the first time, someone was looking at his body as a connected system — not a collection of isolated symptoms. The fascial restrictions that had been generating his pain for nearly a decade were identified, addressed, and released.

The pain resolved. The movement returned. And a conviction formed that would define the next twenty years: if this worked for him, how many other people were suffering unnecessarily because nobody had looked in the right place?

He dedicated himself to mastering the approach, then systematizing it into something more structured, more progressive, and more oriented toward client self-sufficiency than anything that existed. The result — developed over two decades of clinical work — is the Release Works Method of Healing™: a trademarked, progressive protocol with a clear beginning, a measurable middle, and a defined end.

What 20 Years of This Work Looks Like

Beyond the Clinic

Outside the protocol room, Michael is a husband and father who lives in Salt Lake City. He hikes the Wasatch. He reads voraciously. He is deeply committed to his family and to the community that has supported Release Works for two decades.

He believes that healing is not a luxury — it is a right. And that every person who walks through the door deserves the same quality of attention, the same depth of assessment, and the same honest answer about what is actually going on in their body. That belief has not changed in twenty years. It is not going to.