G.D. Maitland from Auckland, New Zealand developed a comprehensive manual therapy approach to painful joints which Rebound utilizes. His passive mobilization techniques for every joint in the body include very gentle methods designed to calm down irritable joints and tissues as well as more vigorous manipulation for specific joint lesions.

Most people think of passive movement treatment as a stretching process to increase the range of movement in a stiff joint, however, the Maitland techniques have application towards not only mobility but also pain reductions and reducing abnormal joint mechanics. Maitland techniques are commonly used post-operatively and following extended periods of immobilization.