07/15/2026
ReTensioning®
Enable Real Change in Your Clients (CE)
Clinicians use many manual therapeutic techniques to promote relaxation, ease, comfort in a client but the underlying reason for using any technique is to improve a client’s ability to move.
There are techniques to change the pliability or strength of soft tissues, techniques to shift the alignment of bones to one another, techniques to promote blood and lymph flow in injured tissues, techniques to improve energy flow, and many more. The common thread of all these interventions is that the practitioner is actively directing changes in the client’s structure.
ReTensioning® is different
ReTensioning® is a manual, kinesthetic, educational technique to assist a client in changing themselves. Practitioners provide very gentle, specific sensory input to help a client dissipate the forces created by their tissues that result in strain at a specific joint.
ReTensioning® techniques allow a client to change the mechanical forces in their own body in a manner and at a pace that integrates with their concept of who they are and how things should feel. Because the client orchestrates the changes the positive effects are easily retained and practitioner bias of what “should“ happen is avoided.
For a practitioner, ReTensioning® has many benefits. Application of the techniques is easy on the practitioner’s body. It is a tool to treat multiple areas of dysfunction in a coordinated manner and provides a way to treat the whole body in a manner that results in relief of dysfunction in a specific place. Most importantly, RT gives a practitioner a new way to think about the body and how to change a client’s mechanical functioning in a constructive wholistic manner.
https://www.ucha.edu/ceu
