Myotherapy is a form of manual medicine focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of musculoskeletal pain. Myotherapy treatment involves an extensive physical evaluation with an integrated approach to the treatment of involved muscles, joints and nerves. Myotherapy can be utilised to treat acute and chronic conditions, as well as in the area of preventative management and prescriptive exercises.

Myotherapists are primary health care practitioners and a distinguishing feature of Myotherapy is the clinical reasoning used, in which standard methods of evaluation are used such as orthopaedic tests, postural assessment, neurological and functional testing in conjunction with a thorough palpatory assessment of the spine, peripheral joint play, and the contractile evaluation of musculature.