<unk>  is an osteopathic manipulative technique in which the fascia around the spine is softened with one's hands in order to decrease the sympathetic output from the sympathetic ganglion which reside in the<unk>  area. Doing so can act in a sympatholytic manner (inhibition of the sympathetic arm of the autonomic nervous system) and in specific areas can have benefits such as preventing a postoperative ileus (thoracolumbar junction).
Paraspinal inhibition
Neural facilitation
Somatosensory amplification
Neural adaptation
Neurostimulation
Counterstimulation
Presynaptic inhibition
Co-stimulation