The process of making a fixed part movable or releasing stored substances, as in restoring motion to a joint, freeing an organ, or making available substances held in reserve in the body as glycogen or fat.
A technique, used by chiropractors and other health care professionals, in which a joint is passively moved within its normal range of motion.
The act of enabling motion and reinstating the ability to move within a joint. It refers to the action of increasing joint mobility through movement.
Creating the ability for a body part to move is referred to as mobilization. Mobilization, as a therapeutic approach, aims to enhance the mobility of a body part that is in the process of recovering from an injury or impacted by a medical condition.
Surgeons utilize this term to describe the process of liberating an organ or structure from the encompassing connective tissue or fibrous adhesions, which are bands of tissue that join parts of the body that would typically remain separate.
The process of restoring movement to a part, like a joint, that has become immobilized or stiff.
The process of liberating an organ to make it reachable during a surgical procedure.
The release of a substance stored within the body, like the utilization of glycogen stored in the liver.