Provider-Guided Soft Tissue and Movement Restoration
Passive Release Techniques™ is the primary hands-on movement restoration system within Dynamic Release Techniques™. PRT™ is built around precise provider-guided movement, controlled tissue tension, and restoration of tissue glide.
Unlike active therapies where the patient creates the movement, Passive Release Techniques™ places the provider in control. The practitioner is actively managing:
This allows for better precision, less guarding, and a more controlled approach to restoring soft tissue mobility.
Every movement is directed by the physician and their assistant, allowing precise localization and treatment of soft tissue restrictions while restoring normal motion.
Patients remain relaxed or unconscious throughout treatment, minimizing protective muscle guarding, improving treatment, and allowing more effective soft tissue mobilization.
PRT is designed to restore fascial glide, reduce adhesions in the muscles, tendons and ligaments, improve tissue flexibility, enhance joint mobility, and optimize normal biomechanical movement.
The physician-directed principles of PRT make it effective for awake patients and adaptable to procedures performed under anesthesia, where movement is guided entirely by the physician or clinical team.
By improving tissue mobility and movement quality, PRT helps reduce pain, enhance performance, accelerate recovery, and support long-term musculoskeletal health.
Each area is treated with precise tension, guided movement, and provider-controlled sequencing.
Focuses on the shoulder, scapula, arm, elbow, forearm, wrist, and hand. Treatment may address rotator cuff restrictions, pectoral tightness, scapular mechanics, biceps and triceps relationships, forearm tension, wrist mobility, grip function, and overhead movement.
Goal: Improve shoulder motion, arm function, grip strength, and upper-body mechanics.
Focuses on the hip, pelvis, thigh, knee, lower leg, ankle, and foot. Treatment may address gluteal restrictions, hip rotators, adductors, hamstrings, quadriceps, IT band relationships, calf complex, Achilles tendon, and plantar fascia.
Goal: Improve gait, balance, loading, force transfer, and athletic movement.
Focuses on the cervical spine, thoracic spine, lumbar spine, ribs, pelvis, sacrum, diaphragm, and TMJ. This section addresses spinal motion, postural balance, breathing mechanics, rib motion, pelvic control, and jaw-related tension patterns.
Goal: Restore the central mechanical axis of the body.
PRT™ addresses the mechanical relationship between fascia, muscle, tendon, ligament, capsule, scar tissue, and regional nerve interfaces. It is not a nerve-only system. It is a full soft tissue and movement restoration method.
Motion becomes restricted, joints absorb abnormal stress, fascia tightens, and the nervous system may become irritated. Passive Release Techniques™ is designed to restore motion through controlled, guided movement.
Dynamic Release Techniques™ follows a progressive educational pathway. Each course builds on the last.
32 CE hours (16 online + 16 in person), pending approval
Step 232 CE hours (16 online + 16 in person), pending approval
Step 332 CE hours (16 online + 16 in person), pending approval
Step 432 CE hours (16 online + 16 in person), pending approval
Step 532 CE hours (16 online + 16 in person), pending approval
PRT™ is the hands-on foundation of Dynamic Release Techniques™. It builds directly from NOR™ and prepares providers for more advanced Dynamic Instruments™ and STOMUA™ applications.
Passive Release Techniques™ restores motion by combining precise contact, controlled tension, and provider-guided movement.
Precision. Motion. Restoration.
