Steven Green, soft-tissue therapist, offers “an answer to pain”

TRYON – MyoBalancing Muscular Therapy has expanded their office to reach the Tryon area. The new clinic is located at 104 Palmer Street across from Thompson’s Gallery.

Steven Green, soft-tissue specialist, is a native of the Florence area in the lower part of South Carolina. He got into muscular therapy when he was looking for some form of therapy following a time of personal stress.

“When I initially started in this field, it was during a pretty rough time for me,” Green said. “I was going through a separation, eventually divorce from my ex-wife, and so I was looking for something that I could use as therapy for myself. That’s when I started in a massage therapy program in Sumter, S.C. at Central Carolina Technical College.”

Green said he never had the intention to go through with the program, but to use it as a “useful tool” for therapy. He did not finish the massage therapy program despite having one semester left.

“I actually found out that I was good at it and I started to receive patients that had some serious issues and ailments,” Green explained. “I wanted to learn about deeper levels of manipulation, manual manipulation, for the soft tissue and muscular system. At the time, the massage program wasn’t giving me that.”

Instead, Green went on to pursue higher forms of muscular manipulation and attended the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork. He said their approach is through structural bodywork, which looks at pain in relation to the body’s posture and movement.

“They were doing some pretty wicked stuff and it was the first time I had ever heard of structural body work,” Green said. “It’s basically specializing in pain, posture and movement issues. When you think about just body work in general, it’s basically a system or discipline that has to be created by a group of people or person specifically for pain management.”

From plantar fasciitis, known commonly as heel pain, to lower back pain, Green said these ailments are the most common issues he has seen since he began practicing in 2015.

“I’ve seen headaches. I’ve seen sciatic issues. I’ve seen pseudo-sciatic issues, and the list goes on and on,” Green said. “I received an apprenticeship with the owner of the school and it became time for me to spread my wings. I stepped off and opened my own business in Rutherford County because that’s where most of my patients were calling me to and it was the place to start an alternative approach to the human body.”

Green said this move to Rutherford County helped him on his “spiritual walk of life” as he began to connect with the community and his patients through his practice.

“Things were great, business was slowly growing. But then there were several times when I took the business plan off the shelf and looked at if everything was lining up the way I intended,” Green said. “Unfortunately, the answer was no. I then came to the reality that to be able to continue with the vision I have for the business there needs to be a change.”

Green said he began to look for a market that has disposable income because the services he offers are referral based. Building a community, according to Green, is more than owning a business and “turning over the open sign” each morning.

He added he also has a clinic in Chesnee, S.C., where he spends the first half of the week on Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Green is in Tryon 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, and 8 a.m.-12 p.m. on Saturdays. To schedule an appointment with Green, visit www.myobalancing.com or call 828-755-5599.

“We, as humans, were created, functionally, to move and as you get older, you tend to not want to move as much,” Green said. “As we get older, we experience a lot of pain issues like knee issues or ankle issues and then we have to think of what the next step will be if we don’t pursue alternative approaches and we feel as if we’re not getting the instant gratification we should, which results in having surgery. Instead of ‘chasing the pain’ or treating it where it hurts, we target the underlying problem.”