The 📝Sports Therapy Glossary collects the terms used when 📝Sports Therapy appears in a Somatic Realignment Therapy session note or training-week plan, defined in plain language for clients.
Glossary
A
- 📝Activation — brief work before activity to wake the muscles the session or event will rely on.
- 📝Active Recovery — light movement on rest days to keep blood and fluid moving.
C
- 📝Cool-Down — the slow lowering of intensity after effort that begins recovery.
D
- 📝Deload — a planned week of reduced training load so tissue can catch up.
- 📝DOMS — delayed-onset muscle soreness, the ache that peaks a day or two after unfamiliar effort.
E
- 📝Eccentric — the lengthening phase of a movement, where most soreness and most strength adaptation come from.
F
- 📝Flush — light, brisk strokes toward the heart after activity to move fluid.
L
- 📝Load — the total demand placed on tissue by training, work, and life together.
- 📝Load Management — adjusting volume and intensity so tissue adapts instead of breaking down.
M
- 📝Maintenance Session — regular bodywork between events to keep range available.
- 📝Mobility Work — active movement through range, distinct from passive stretching.
O
- 📝Overuse — strain from repeated load without enough recovery between bouts.
P
- 📝Post-Event Work — slower, recovery-focused bodywork after competition or a hard effort.
- 📝Pre-Event Work — shorter, brisker work before competition to prime rather than relax.
- 📝Prehab — targeted work on known weak links before they become problems.
R
- 📝Range of Motion — how far a joint moves, the target of most sports bodywork.
- 📝Recovery Window — the hours after effort when sleep, fuel, and light movement matter most.
- 📝Referral Rule — acute, unexplained, or worsening pain goes to a licensed clinician, not to more table time.
- 📝RPE — rate of perceived exertion, a 1-to-10 sense of how hard an effort felt.
S
- 📝Sport-Specific — choosing which tissues to work from the demands of the client's sport.
- 📝Strain — the sensation of tissue asked past what it currently tolerates, not a graded tear.
T
- 📝Taper — reducing training before an event so the body arrives fresh.
- 📝Tissue Tolerance — how much load a tissue can currently absorb before it complains.
W
- 📝Warm-Up — raising tissue temperature and rehearsing the movements before effort.