The 📝Resisted Soft-Tissue Release Glossary collects the terms used when 📝Resisted Soft-Tissue Release appears in a Somatic Realignment Therapy session note, defined in plain language for clients; this is a generic method in which the client's own effort is part of the technique.
Glossary
A
- 📝Active — the client's own muscle effort is part of the technique, unlike a passive release.
- 📝Anchor — the point where the practitioner pins the muscle before asking for resistance.
C
- 📝Contract-Relax — tensing a muscle briefly and then letting it go and lengthen, the family of methods this belongs to.
D
- 📝Direction of Push — the line the practitioner presses along, which the client resists.
E
- 📝Eccentric Release — the muscle lengthening under light load as the client eases off resistance.
- 📝Effort Percentage — the level of resistance the practitioner asks for, such as 20 or 50 percent, never full strength.
G
- 📝Guarding — muscle tightening against pressure, which the active engagement is meant to bypass.
H
- 📝Hold — the seconds of resistance before release, usually five to ten.
I
- 📝Isometric — a contraction in which the muscle works without the joint moving, the kind used here.
P
- 📝Pin — pressing and holding a specific point on the muscle.
- 📝Pin and Stretch — holding the point while the limb moves, so tissue lengthens through the held spot.
- 📝Post-Isometric Relaxation — the brief window after a contraction when a muscle lets go more fully than before.
R
- 📝Reciprocal Inhibition — a muscle relaxing when its opposite contracts, sometimes used to help the release along.
- 📝Release — the softening felt after the client stops resisting.
- 📝Resist — the client pushing back against the practitioner's pressure at the set effort.
S
- 📝Set — one cycle of pin, resist, and release, usually repeated two or three times.