TITLE:
Positional release techniques as a diagnostic-therapeutic approach in physiotherapy
AUTHORS:
Luca Collebrusco
KEYWORDS:
Manual Therapy; Positional Release; Soft Tissue; Direct and Indirect Techniques
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation,
Vol.2 No.1,
February
15,
2014
ABSTRACT: Manual Therapy is a rehabilitative approach based on the use of therapeutic procedures that includes several techniques, but this paper focuses on what is known as Positional Release (PR), a therapeutic model that includes a series of manoeuvres that are mainly used for the treatment of soft tissue. A deeper understanding of this type of therapeutic approach, especially its well known and widespread variant, Strain-Counterstrain, could, through controlled trials and systematic reviews, confirm its effectiveness, definitively explain the neurophysiological mechanism, and therefore make Positional Release another indispensable option in the professional expertise of the physiotherapist.