Maitland’s clinical decision making approach includes SMT interventions of varying
magnitudes of translatory, compressive, and distractive forces to the joints with the goal of
alleviating pain (Maitland et al., 2005). Furthermore, New Zealand born physical therapist
Brian Mulligan introduced the concept of mobilization with movement in which translatory
forces are applied to the joints during active movements with the goal of alleviating pain
during movement (Mulligan, 2010).