A few years ago, physical therapist Jeanne O’Malley began noticing that a number of her patients were experiencing chronic pain from years of built-up scar tissue when they golfed.
Eager to relieve the source of the pain, she dreamed up and later constructed a manually operated machine made of wood and pulleys that stretched patients’ spines, exercising and remodeling scar tissue so patients could swing their golf clubs without pain. O’Malley started a company dedicated to her idea of breaking down scar tissue to relieve chronic pain in golfers, calling it Golf Phyx.