Sedative Stretching achieves results where other treatments fail because it allows Dr. Johnson to stretch and move your joints and muscles without the usual resistance or discomfort. "Twilight" sedation allows you to be responsive without resisting the stretching of fibrosis adhesions necessary to improve your condition. Light manipulations are completed gently and without the patient's usual psychological resistance. Fibrotic adhesions (scar tissue), which limit range of motion and contribute to pain and degeneration, are altered; muscles are stretched; collagen fibers are remodeled to eliminate or reduce restriction. Pain and discomfort are decreased and typically eliminated. Most of the stretches and adjustments received using Sedative Stretching are the same as those the patient experiences during typical physical therapy sessions, but require less force simply because of the patient's relaxed state.