how does strain-counterstrain technique work?

from our osteopathy yahoo group today:

"We should all now look at the research and ask the question, what does it have to do with clinical practice?" Howard

I take your apology as sincere and agree to put this incident behind us.

What was copied to you by Hollis King DO was meant to inform you of that particular research, which was summarised at the Fascia congress October 2007. It was not meant to pressure you (as though anyone could!)
It does not prove anything - except that it offers evidence of a possible model for what may be happening on a cellular level when positional release methods are used. Together with much other evidence - for example Solomonow's ligamentous influence evidence (citation provided last week)- as well as the clinical studies cited in a posting by me on this thread last week - all add up to helping explain (to me) of the clinical results I have been achieving, using these methods for 20 years or so.
An altogether different question is whether or not positional release is 'osteopathic' - and I for one don't give a damn whether it is or is not.
It emerged from osteopathic groups/practitioner s, and has echoes in early osteopathic work I have see discussed, all the way back to Still.
So in that regard it is osteopathic for me, but may not be for you.
It is also very naturopathic, in that it offers an opportunity for tissues to resolve their own stress/strain/ restriction patterns - self-regulation in action - without imposition of a practitioner directed solution (i.e. as in when barriers are forced to retreat in HVLA or MET)
Leon