Soft Tissue Release
Muscles are made up of strands of muscle fibres which should lie neatly alternating with one another. Every muscle has attachment points, where they attach to bones or other connective tissue. However, muscle fibres can become damaged, congested and tangled. This can distort attachment points and cause restrictions and pain.
Soft tissue release involves the therapist using manual pressure on a muscle to create a temporary false attachment point and then taking the muscle into a pain-free stretch to untangle the muscle fibres.