NOTABLE PEOPLE
MASSAGE HISTORY
TERMS
REQUIREMENTS FOR PRACTICE
MASSAGE MOVEMENTS
REGULATION
RESEARCH
100

The designation of the major massage technique classifications is generally attributed to this person.

Who is Johann Georg Mezger

100

Manual therapy has been a major part of medicine for at least this many years.

What is 5000?

100

The modern term for Chinese massage is tuina which literally means this. 

What is to push-pull?

100

Practitioners should wash their hands this often

What is before and after each sessions?

100

This type of massage that broadens the fibrous tissues of muscles, tendons, or ligaments, breaking down unwanted adhesions and restoring mobility. 

What is deep transverse friction massage?

100

The scope of practice of therapeutic massage is defined by this :

What is state legislation?


100

Fee establishment and collection is/is not one of the areas of learning outcomes identified in the ELAP final report?

What is is NOT?

200

This person wrote De Medicina, which deals  extensively with prevention and therapeutics using massage and bathing.

Who was Celsus? 

200

This was an important cultural center in ancient Greece where citizens gathered to train their bodies.

What is gymnasium?

200

The Japanese use this term when referring to the points of stimulation in the body. 

What is tsubo?

200

This type of massage was made available to athletes for the first time at the 1984 Summer Olympics

What is Sports massage?

200

Tension forces deform the tissues by this

What is pulling the layers of tissue structure apart from one another?

200

In 2007, the Federation of State Massage Therapy Licensing Boards (FSMTB) created this as a valid reliable licensing examination to determine entry-level competence.

What is MBLEX (Massage and Bodywork Licensing Exam)?

200

The ability to locate, comprehend, and evaluate valid information and, if applicable, apply it to clinical practice.

What is research literacy?

300

This person wrote an encyclopedia of Arabic, Roman, and Greek medical practices that esteemed the use of exercise, diet and massage in the treatment of disease and the preservation of health. 

Who is Rhazes?

300

The Ling System of massage is more commonly known as this

What is the Swedish Movements?

300

This form of manipulation has been practiced in India for over 3000 years and are an important part of the Hindu tradition. 

What is Ayur-veda?

300

This term refers to creating a practice based on a balance of current scientific evidence, clinical experience and the client's wishes.

What is evidence informed practice?

300

Shearing force deforms the tissue by this

What is shifting different structures against each other?

300

Which of the following licensed professionals may NOT practice massage as part of their therapeutic treatments:

a) Osteopaths

b)registered nurses

c)athletic trainers

d)paramedics

What is d) paramedics?

300

The best keyword to use when searching for a specific massage technique

What is petrissage?

400

This person is credited with developing Connective Tissue Massage

Who is Elizabeth Dicke?

400

In the past a male massage practioner was called this

What is a masseur?

400

What does NCBTMB stand for?

What is National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork?

400

Any class or workshop that a professional attends that relates to his or her profession or practice after graduation from initial training.

What is continuing education?

400

Movement that is towards the heart or in the direction of venous and lymph flow

What is centripetal?

400

The Board Certification Credential does NOT

What is take the place of a license, where a license is required?

400

This part of the case report provides all the methodological details necessary for another clinician to duplicate the author's work. 

What is case presentation?

500

This French barber-surgeon is credited with restoring the health of Mary, Queen of Scots, by use of massage

Who is Ambrose Pare

500

This is a reason for the decline in popularity of massage in the early twentieth century

What is numerous incompetent practitioners?

500

In his writing, Hippocrates used the word antitripsis, which means rubbing the part of the body __________

What is up?

500

Some employers may request this prior to allowing a massage practitioner to work for them.

What is a health certificate?

500

This type of gliding strokes do not touch the skin

What are aura strokes?

500

Most states require a massage practitioner to display this at their place of business.

What is their license?

500

The best resource to use to locate information about an interventional  study

600

Chair massage was introduced by this person, who popularized the practice of bringing massage into corporate offices, shopping malls and airports.

Who is David Palmer?

600

The professional application of structured therapeutic touch  to benefit soft tissue health, movement, posture and neurological patterns.

What is massage? 

600

This term means healing with the hands

What is Chirurgy?

600

Explain the difference between licensure vs certificate

What is a license is issued from a federal, state or municipal regulating agency, established under gvt authority, usually require some level of education. 

certification is a document that a private organization awards in recognition of accomplishment. 

600

Fulling is considered  this type of method of massage

What is torsion?

600

Which of the following is NOT service that falls OUTSIDE a massage practitioners scope of practice:

a) chiropractic

b)therapeutic assessments

c)acupuncture

d)psychotherapy

What is b) therapeutic assessments?

600

A systematic and organized attempt to determine if one's supposition has validity.

What is research?

700

This person wrote extensively on the benefits of massage and hydrotherapy and published The Art of Massage: A Practical Manual for the Nurse, the Student and the Practitioner in 1895

Who is John Harvey Kellogg?

700

The Chinese called their massage system this

What is anmo?

700

In medical gymnastics, movements performed by the patient in cooperation with the therapist are called this. 

What is duplicated?

700

According to law, what two professionals are allowed to diagnose?

What are doctors and nurses?

700

Vibration is an example of this method of massage

What is Oscillation?

700

A massage practitioner could have their licensce revoked, suspended or canceled for any of these reasons.  (name one)

What is being guilty of fraud?

What is ethical/sexual misconduct?

What is being engaged currently or previously in prostitution?


700

In the Scientific Method, Once you make an observation, and review previous research, the next step is ____________________

What is create a hypothosis?

800

This is an Austrian Physician developed a method of gentle rhythmical massage along the surface lymphatics accelerating lymphatic system function and treating chronic lymphadema

Who is Emil Vodder?

800

The Greeks and Romans placed so much emphasis on exercise and manipulations such as rubbing and frictions because of this

What is because the Greeks and Romans were very health and beauty concious?

800

This term defines the rights and activities legally acceptable according to the licenses of a particular occupation or profession

What is scope of practice?

800

Requirements for licensure vary from state to state, but most require these 4 things

What is 

the applicant be 18 years of age or older, 

applicant must complete massage therapy training from a board recognized school, 

applicant must complete written exam, 

applicant must pay a fee. 

800

Chucking is a form of this type of methods of movement

What is shearing?

800

This exam ea?rns an individual the designation of being nationally certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork.

What is National Certification Exam?

800

This type of research methodology typically provides the most reliable results with the least chance of bias. 

What is meta-analysis?

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