A manipulative therapy developed in Japan involving pressure applied to special points or areas on the body in order to maintain physical and mental well being.
What is Shiatsu?
100
Muscular force in which muscular tension is developed without contraction of the muscle. i.e. The muscle force precisely matches the load- no movement results.
What is isometric?
100
The term for a group or collection of cells which act together in the performance of a particular function
What is tissue?
100
The largest portion of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
100
The type of muscle that controls the size of the pupil of the eye.
What is involuntary?
200
When indicated, what vigorous technique would be applied directly over the affected area?
What is deep friction massage.
200
Two word roots meaning skin.
What are cutane- and dermat(o)?
200
The three types of muscle in the body.
What are voluntary, involuntary and cardiac?
200
Two functions of the circulatory system.
What is- carries oxygen to cells of the body, removes waste products from the cells of the body?
200
Injury to a joint in which the articulation bones are forcefully separated.
What is dislocation?
300
This technique requires that the therapist keeps their wrist and finger joints stiff.
What is vibration massage?
300
The word root meaning of or pertaining to the ribs.
What is cost(o)-?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!
A therapy in which the clients muscles are actively used on request from a precisely controlled position, in a specific direction, and against a distinctly executed counterforce.
What is Muscle Energy Technique?
300
The organs of special sense.
What are eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin?
300
The first person to specifically describe the medical benefits of anointing and massage?
Who is Hippocrates?
400
Similar to Swedish Massage, but focuses on the deepest layer of muscles to target knots and release chronic muscle tension.
What is deep tissue massage?
400
Wasting of an organ or tissue from non use.
What is atrophy?
400
This muscle causes the shoulder to abduct, flex, medially and laterally rotate, extend, and horizontally adduct.
What is the deltoid?
400
The principal systems of the body. DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What are the cardio, nervous, respiratory, endocrine, skeletal, muscular, reproductive, digestive, integumentary, lymphatic and urinary systems?
400
The person credited with bringing massage to the attention of the scientific community.
Who is Dr. Johann Mezger?
500
A technique designed to alleviate the source of muscle pain through cycles of isolated pressure and release.
What is trigger point therapy?
500
A decrease in blood flow to a tissue or organ resulting in impairment of cell function or death.
What is ischemia?
500
Chronic inflammation and fibrosis of the rotator cuff musculature.
What is frozen shoulder?
500
The system that regulates the heartbeat.
What is the nervous system?
500
The four basic types of tissue.
What are Epithelial, Connective, Muscular and Nervous?