What do we mean by healthy soft tissue? The soft tissue of the body has many qualities—different qualities in different parts of that tissue. But when we touch another human body, we have an instinctive sense that healthy soft tissue in adults is very similar to what a child’s body feels like in our hands.

Feeling for softness in the tissue—or what we sometimes call “feeling for soft”—comes from Milton Trager himself. Broadly speaking, soft tissue refers to everything in our body except the bones. It encompasses fascia, muscle fibers, blood vessels, lymph vessels, organs—everything with a texture softer than bone.