Our Therapists

M.J. Orellano, L.M.T./P.T. completed her physical therapy degree in December 1983 from the University of Central Arkansas.  She received her physical therapy license in 1984 and has been practicing physical therapy in the state of Arkansas since that time.  M.J. received her massage therapy license in 1996 to further enhance the scope of her practice allowing more direct access to the public.  She is also a level two Certified Breathworker through Transformation, Inc. of Milwaukee, WI.

Since in practice, M.J. has enhanced her clinical skills through continuing education, primarily in the areas of manual therapy and women's health, accumulating over 700 hours of continuing education in the past 20 years.  She has also taught and assisted in teaching courses in Myofascial Release both locally and nationally.  Along with her business partner, Sue Carver, ATC/M.P.T., M.J. co-authored and taught "How to Progress Your Injured Client for Successful Exercise Experience," a course designed for fitness trainers.  Her Clinical interests include rehabilitation of orthopedic injuries, pre and postpartum back pain and rehabilitation of chronic pain, especially Myofascial in origin

Prior to co-owning A World of Difference Therapy Services, est. 1998, M.J. worked in Orthopedic Outpatient Private Practices both a an employee and business owner.  She previously owned Pleasant Valley Physical Therapy, Inc.

M.J. strives to deliver the best level of care possible to the whole patient rather than a diagnosis.  By following the mission statement of A World of Difference Therapy Services, patients are empowered through education and exercise as function is restored and pain decreases.

M.J. is a Catholic and a parishioner at Christ the King Catholic Church.  She has one son.  Her Hobbies include exercise, cooking, reading and being with family and friends.  She is a member of the Arkansas Woman Executives; The American Physical Therapy Association; The Private Practice Section; The Section of Women's Health, and the Arkansas Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association.

Sue Carver, ATC/MPT/CMT received her ATC (certified Athletic Trainer) in 1978 from the National Athletic Trainer's Association; served as the Women's Athletic Trainer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1978-1982; Volunteer Athletic Trainer at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, 1984 (judo and fencing);Selected to work the National Sports Festival VI, in Baton Rouge, (men's volleyball) 1985; Selected to work the US Olympic Track and Field Trials in Indianapolis, 1988; Volunteer trainer for Track and Field at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, 1996.

Sue received her MPT/Masters degree in Physical Therapy from Emory University, 1987.  Her employment history following graduation includes staff physical therapist at Ft. Sanders Center for Sports Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee (1988-89);Director of Little Rock, Sports Therapy, Little Rock, AR (1989-1993); Physical Therapy Clinics Company initially as staff therapist and then as Director of the Pleasant Valley Clinic- out patient orthopedic and chronic pain management (1993-1998);Owner and President of a private out-patient physical therapy clinic specializing in orthopedics and chronic pain management, D.B.A./A World of Difference Therapy Services.

Sue received her CMT/Certified Manual Therapy from the Institute of Graduate Health Sciences in 1991 (post graduate work in theory of soft tissue and joint injuries as well as manual skills in Myofascial release, deep tissue techniques, basic, intermediate and advanced spinal and extremity manipulation techniques.)

Sue is the contributing author "Health Fitness Instructor's Handbook."  Edited by Howley, Ed. T., PhD and Franks, Don B.,PhD, Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc., Champaign, Illinois, 1986, 2nd edition, 1992; 3rd edition 1997; 4th edition 2002; and 5th edition 2005.

Sue has been a speaker at the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association District Meeting in 1992 on Dynamic Back Stabilization for Athletes in Indianapolis; National Athletic Trainer's Association in 1997 on Assessment and Treatment of Postural Alignment in Relation to Sports Injuries in Salt Lake City, Utah and also the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association District Meeting in 1999 on An Introduction to Manual Therapy Techniques in Indianapolis.