Richard Finn LMT CMTPT

When I was about 20 I started getting chronic headaches. I was downing 6 aspirin a day for the pain and a lot of nose bleeds were the only real result. Then one day in a bookstore, my favorite place to be, I came across a book about myofascial pain. I read it and it changed my life! Here was a person talking about pain being caused by knots in the muscle. No one had ever mentioned that my pain or anyone else’s was caused by knots in the muscle. The more I read the more interested I became. This made sense! I realized that if 50% of body weight is made up of muscles that wouldn’t it make sense to consider those as a cause of some pain? I started playing around and was able to help myself. This was great. I didn’t really understand all the science behind the healing that was happening, but I was getting results. My friends and coworkers were all coming up and saying, “Richard, work on me, I’ve got this headache, sore neck, back ache” ect. I decided it was time to look into this as a profession. That was over 35 years ago. I went to school and learned the science behind this amazing healing modality and continue to be thrilled with the results on friends, family, and now, patients. I directed and was lead instructor at the Pittsburgh School of Pain Management for about 18 years. I continue to have a private practice as well as training others in this modality. Watching others learn and help is about as exciting as doing it myself. Now I get to teach others to help themselves! The great thing is that there is always something new to learn.