Pregnancy
This term describes the modification of massage techniques and body positions to safely meet the unique needs of women as they undergo changes during the gestational and postpartum periods.
Pregnancy Massage
This event is defined as the noninduced embryonic or fetal death, or the passage of conception products, occurring before the 20th week of pregnancy.
Miscarriage
This overarching phrase refers to groups of individuals who are disadvantaged, vulnerable, and/or at risk for harm due to physical limitations, life stages, or cognitive impairments.
Special Populations
When setting up your office space or practice setting for special populations, your furniture layout should accommodate canes or wheelchairs by adhering to this specific design rule.
Barrier free pathways
This visionary massage professional brought seated massage into the corporate world in the 1980s and developed the first specialized massage chair.
David Palmer
This specific condition is characterized by a dangerous drop in blood pressure when a pregnant woman lies flat on her back, caused by the weight of the uterus compressing major abdominal blood vessels.
Supine Hypotensive syndrome
The third trimester of pregnancy is officially defined as encompassing this specific range of weeks.
29 weeks-birth (40 weeks)
While a "disability" restricts major life activities, this term is defined specifically as a decrease in the absolute capacity to move, see, hear, or utilize an extremity.
Impairment
When working with a client who has a mobility impairment, a massage practitioner should always treat this device as an integrated extension of the client's own body.
Mobility device
This is the traditional name for the ancient Japanese bodywork system from which modern chair massage techniques are fundamentally derived.
Amma
This hormone activates collagenase to breakdown collagen strength, relaxing pelvic ligaments to assist with childbirth, though it also slightly affects all other joints in the body.
Relaxin
This is the most common type of delivery method for childbirth worldwide.
Vaginal
Chronologically reaching this landmark age is what typically classifies an individual as a senior citizen.
65 years
To establish a comfortable and safe environment for a blind or visually impaired individual, a therapist should always use this vocal protocol.
Introduce yourself and address them by name.
Chair massage is highly versatile and popular in public settings primarily because it requires absolutely none of this product.
Lubricant
Due to altered blood chemistry, increased fluid volume, and pressure from an expanding uterus compressing major vessels, pregnant women are 5 to 6 times more vulnerable to this acute vascular danger.
DVT (deep vein thrombosis)
Excessive fetal growth (macrosomia), maternal hypoglycemia, and infant respiratory distress syndrome are all potential fetal complications associated with this condition.
Gestational diabetes mellitus
This biological term describes the natural physiological period of decline extending from old age until death.
Senescence
Gaining eye contact before speaking, keeping your face fully visible, and relying heavily on clear body language and demonstrations are the best approach for this group.
Hearing impaired clients
For a typical 15-minute corporate or public chair massage routine, the vast majority of the treatment time is concentrated on these three specific regions of the body.
Back, neck, shoulders
Characterized by persistent high blood pressure and protein in the urine developing after week 20, this pregnancy-specific condition requires a massage to be postponed until medical clearance is given.
Preeclampsia
To safely handle mild, non-systemic fluid retention (edema) in a pregnant client's lower extremities, a massage therapist should utilize this specific application method. (2)
Elevate the legs above the heart, light pressure centripetal effleurage
This is widely considered the most uncomfortable table position for geriatric clients.
Prone
This specialized type of multidisciplinary healthcare focuses entirely on optimizing the quality of life and providing comfort measures for individuals facing serious, complex, or terminal illnesses.
Palliative care
To ensure safety before a client sits down in a massage chair, the therapist should do this.
Demonstrate how to sit in the chair