Mobilizations

Mobilizations are basically active or dynamic stretches and rhythmical movements that massage your muscles and joints with movement….wiggle therapy. The currently sexy technical term is dynamic joint mobility drills, but I prefer the simpler term mobilizations. By any name, it involves a lot of moving a joint through its full range, without resistance, an easy exercise.

Mobs can warm you up gently, gradually expand your comfort zone, relieve tension and perhaps muscle knots, and facilitate healing. Mobilizing is an extremely easy form of therapeutic exercise, easily fine-tuned for anyone, which can be used to efficiently stimulate specific tissues with just the right amount of activity, not too much, but enough to facilitate healing. Motion is lotion, as the old rhyme goes.

A great deal of scientific evidence suggests that movement, especially early in healing, is a crucial part of recovery from injuries and surgeries. This is known in the rehab business as early mobilization.
by Paul Ingraham, http://saveyourself.ca/articles/mobilizing.php