Stiffness is reduced ease of movement that 📝Articular Mobility aims to soften; a sensation, not a diagnosis.
It is how the joint or the tissue around it feels to move, not arthritis, not a fused joint, and not a claim the table reverses disease. Light 📝Traction and time in comfort are how this practice meets it. Sharp, swollen, or worsening stiffness after trauma is a referral, not more 📝passive movement.
Clients say "it's stiff." That is enough language for the note.