@lesx A shearing stretch is to push the skin sideways. Think about kneading bread dough and how you would push it to develop elasticity. With your hand or a tool, sink into the skin and push like you are kneading bread until it stops. That is when you have reached the “barrier”. Just hold it there and wait. When fascia starts to slide, it can feel tingly or get warm. After I do this, I will have red patches on my skin because the circulation was restored to an area that may have been dried out. You may not have body awareness to feel the slide in the beginning, and that comes in time as you work more with it. If you go to the discussion I started on myofascial release, there is a video at the beginning that shows John Barnes demonstrating and explaining this. He is an older man with a beard. My therapist would tell me to work on areas that were hot, hard or tender by laying on small firm balls. You can do stretches that you already know, but hold them and see if after 5 minutes you still feel the same or did the tension release. If it released, you would have loosened the fascia and muscle. The key is gentle stretching that isn’t increasing pain. Don’t bounce, just hold the stretch. If it’s too much, you can back off.

@lesx I have to stretch my surgical incision scars because they keep getting tight periodically which is normal. It eases pain when I do this. Your therapist can stretch them for you if you can get your hands into the right position or find something that helps you do this.