The McKenzie Method® of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy® is a reliable and research proven biopsychosocial system for the mechanical assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions. The McKenzie Method® encourages and relies upon patient education, empowerment, and active participation.

The McKenzie Method is based on using a series of repeated end-range movements in one plane of motion that's going to help improve your symptoms, so reduce your pain, and also improve your mechanics or improve how well you move through that joint.

The McKenzie method physical examination involves asking the patient to perform specific provocative movements in various directions in both standing and lying positions. In most cases, patients are made to perform single or repeated forward and backward bending movements (flexion and extension).

The stages of McKenzie’s exercises are prone lying, prone lying while resting on elbows, prone push-ups, progressive extension using pillows and standing extension. Numerous variations of the McKenzie sequence exist which add or remove stages according to interpretation of the original sequence.