This technique utilizes deep, short strokes with the Fenix and it is useful in areas with fibrotic changes, especially at attachment trigger points of tendons.

The technique is accomplished by creating short, deep strokes across attachment TPs at tendons, ligaments, or joint capsules across the long axis of the TP fibers. This technique can also be utilized across or along central TP fibers at the belly of the involved muscles.

This is performed by following the Basic Fenix Treatment instructions in the Patient Guidebook, and when your patient gets to step 6, instead of sustained ischemic compression, they should vary the treatment as follows:

	With pressure applied to TP or myofascial adhesion by the therapeutic digit the patient will slightly oscillate across the digit head.
	Patients accomplish this oscillation or motion across the tissue fibers by gently pushing and/or pulling with their feet or hands against the floor to create this rocking motion.
	With this deep friction technique the patient keeps a skin contact with the digit and, by moving the digit and the skin across the underlying tissues the patient creates a deep transverse friction to the involved tendons or ligaments of an involved joint.
	This technique is ideal for fibrotic adhesions in tendons and ligaments, for example in tendonitis of the shoulder and hip.