Today we’d like to introduce you to Ken Moench
Hi Ken, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I began massage therapy school having never had a massage in my life. I was three classes short of completing my undergraduate degree toward getting into physical therapy school, but those classes were only offered during the middle of the workday at the University of Texas, Austin. At the time, I was married with two children and couldn’t just stop working at the hospital where I was a physical therapy aide. The plan was to finish massage school, start doing massages in the evenings, and then complete the classes I needed to get into PT school.
What happened instead was that my boss asked me to start working on clients in the hospital rehab center once I was licensed. At that point, all I really knew was how to do deep tissue work on areas that seemed to be the source of my clients’ issues. Then something unexpected happened: I started eliminating clients’ pain and dysfunction in just one or two treatments, even when they had spent weeks undergoing traditional physical therapy without relief.
I faced a decision: continue with my schooling to learn techniques that appeared to offer minimal relief for many people, or explore better and faster ways to give lasting, complete relief from pain. I chose the latter and haven’t taken another college course since. Early on, I attended three introductory weekend workshops on deep tissue, myofascial release, and trigger point therapy. I began experimenting by combining these techniques with movement, and once I developed something resembling our current protocols, I was able to fix all of my clients’ chronic issues. I hoped they’d send more people—and they did!
For three years, I drove around with my massage table to clients’ homes or offices, charging $35 for hour-long treatments. Eventually, I became so busy that it was more efficient to have clients come to me. I started working in a massage school instructor’s clinic for two years and then opened my first clinic on 31st and Lamar with a friend and co-worker. Later, I moved to Round Rock and soon after opened the Round Rock location, which remains in operation today—26 years later. Subsequently, I opened our Westlake location, followed by Cedar Park, and most recently, our New Braunfels office.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
From the beginning, we were receiving calls from around the country asking if there was ANYONE, ANYWHERE close to their location that did ANYTHING like what we were doing. The answer was always no, but flights were not that expensive! One of the challenging aspects of our business is getting people to understand what it is, how it works, and getting them to believe that it will work for them when nothing else has.
“But my doctor or physical therapist says…” Have they given you the relief you’ve been looking for? “Well, no, but…” is a conversation we often have with prospective clients. We tell them that traditional treatments are usually treating symptoms instead of problems. We ARE different.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Moench Method Bodywork?
I asked my daughter, Lauren, who is our C.O.O. what our average number of visits our clients had in 2023. She pulled up records for 2023 and said, “2.5 visits on average in 2023.” That’s just two and a half visits for most of our clients! I would put that up against ANY medical/therapy practice in the world. In 2024 the numbers were better… only 2.3 visits!
Most practices would consider these numbers unacceptable and they would be looking for ways to INCREASE those numbers! We ARE different. Our goal is to eliminate our client’s pain/dysfunction in as few treatments as possible AND give them all of the information they need to keep healthy and well going forward. We work with them to understand;
– the root causes of their pain and how to prevent re-occurance with
– changes to diet, hydration, sleep/standing and work postures,
– exercise and stretching strategies, etc.
We want our clients free of pain and dysfunction so that they can start focusing on the important things in life…like their relationships with family, friends, the community, and their Creator. We believe that we are all here ‘on purpose’ and that ‘ we ALL have a purpose.’
We cannot fulfil those when we’re masking pain with drugs, alcohol or surgeries.
We have clients that have traveled from nearly every state in the United States and from many countries around the world, because someone told them that THIS WORKS. We work with infants as young as a day and a half old, clients in their 90’s, professional, collegiate, high school, and youth athletes in every sport, and dogs. The technique we utilize works.
I believe our contract with The Austin FC soccer club is unique in professional sports. Clubs almost NEVER hire an outside orgainzation to work directly on their athletes. Austin FC knew of our reputation and trusted us from the beginning to take care of their players. We’ve been with them from the beginning and the results speak for themselves. Their players have the lowest off field time in MLS due to soccer related injuries.
We did hire a marketing firm to get the word out about who we are and what we do. After looking at our history, treatments, and facilities their #1 recommendation was to DOUBLE OUR RATES! We declined. We’ve kept our pricing as low as it is so that we never price people out of the abilty to get out of pain. That is extremely important to us as an organization.
We do offer free 30 minute consultations that people can schedule online. Those are a great way to find out our recommendations for them with zero risk! Migraines to plantar fasciitis, carpel tunnel to knee, hip and back pain, sciatic flare-ups, etc, are all caused by tight, contracted muscle and fascia. We CAN help.
What are your plans for the future?
We’re soon launching Moench Method Migraine and Moench Method Beautywork. We already fix migraine headaches, but most people have no idea that we do. The Beautywork will focus on restoring facial symmetry, elasticity and texture by increasing blood supply and circulation to the face, neck and shoulders naturally without surgery, fillers, or Botox.
We’ll have our 1st book coming out soon called “Every Baby Hurts,” which will alter most of what people think they know about the Child Development field.
We’re planning the roll-out of clinical trials with infants to show, with empirical data, how effective our treatments are in solving age old problems babies and their parents have been dealing with since the dawn of time.
We’re also planning/developing online training for practitioners around the world to treat infants with Moench Method Bodywork techniques.
We are currently setting up Corporate Wellness plans for businesses in the Austin area.
Pricing:
- Initial visit 90 minutes – $200
- 60 minutes – $145
- 45 minutes – $110
- 30 minutes – $75
- 30 minute Consultation – FREE
Contact Info:
- Website: https://moenchmethodbodywork.com/
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