Knowing many people with illness or injury in my life this discovery is very interesting to me. A friend recently told me of their breakthrough in therapy recently while working through trauma and physical pain. This specifically speaks of that experience and explains its benefits.

Many schools of somatic/body psychotherapy are in practice, several of which developed from Reich's work. Among the more well-known of these approaches are:

Hakomi, a form of therapy that combines mindfulness with a somatic approach
Core Energetics, an approach that utilizes movement to balance energy between body, mind, and spirit and better express innate qualities.
Bioenergetic analysis, a somatic therapy that integrates therapeutic treatment with psychology and body work
Bodynamics, which helps people in therapy use the body to address and resolve psychological concerns

Bodynamic Analysis: A New Somatic Psychology

Founded in Denmark by Lisbeth Marcher and her colleagues, Bodynamic Analysis is a carefully researched and constructed body-oriented psychology. For 25 years Marcher studied a combination of physical therapy and psychotherapy, and in this process discovered not only that emotions were held in the body musculature, but that there was a developmental sequence to the muscle enervation. These observations and insights allowed her to create a developmental map of the body using the muscles’ state of tension or collapse for each age level.

Somatic therapy is a holistic therapy that studies the relationship between the mind and body in regard to psychological past. The theory behind somatic therapy is that trauma symptoms are the effects of instability of the ANS (autonomic nervous system). Past traumas disrupt the ANS. Somatic psychotherapy instead works from the “bottom up”– reducing stress and anxiety physiologically, through changing the autonomic nervous system and discharging trauma. Just as there are multiple modalities of cognitive therapy, there are multiple approaches to somatic therapies as well.

https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/somatic-psychotherapy