Stiles and his colleagues have in these simple exercises taken us through the initial stages of palpatory literacy in relation to how tissues respond to motion, self-initiated or externally induced.
Hoover poses a number of questions in the following exercises (‘experiments’ he calls them) the answers to which should always be ‘yes’. If your answers are indeed positive at the completion of the exercise then you are probably sensitive enough in palpatory skills to be able to effectively utilise functional technique.
Hoover’s Thoracic Exercise
Suggested time for this exercise is 5 to 7 minutes.