I submit that regardless of the name of the technique, if practitioners would slow it down, I think much more can be accomplished. I shared an office with a myofascial therapiost who does the lecture ciurcuit. I gave her a letter suggesting ethical and moral violation of a patient who was moaning in obvious distress be it physical or emnotional I could not tell. It was more than I could take. The high drama was normative. Force was excessive as the standard modus operandi. I believe that less force and more time on the order of minutes - not seconds, will be much more effective, much better tolerated. We are seeing literature that reports much better gains in stretches performed constantly, gently at 10 minutes onstead of lesser times even if they accumulate to 10 minutes total (dexter J, combined sessions APTA 2004). What a great revolution we could have here.
Jerry Hesch, MHS, PT