Anatomy & Physiology
These are also called red blood cells and they transport oxygen throughout the body?
What are Erythrocytes
These type of joints are flat surfaces that allow gliding and transitional movements.
What are plane joints?
Lymph Drainage massage is contraindicated for this condition.
What is Hypertension?
A thermostatically-controlled hot water bath used to heat up cloth heating pads
What is Hydrocollator?
When swollen tissue retains an indentation when pressed.
What is pitted edema?
What are ethics?
A gliding stroke with constant pressure. The therapist should apply a firm touch, without reaching any depth within the muscle.
These are also called white blood cells, which are responsible for fighting infectious diseases and maintaining the immune system.
What are Leukocytes?
These type of joints are bones that are joined by cartilage and lack a joint cavity
What are cartilaginous joints.
It is the thickening and flaking of the skin and is characterized by a scaly, dry appearance. This skin condition is not dangerous or contagious and can benefit from the application of hypoallergenic lotion to the affected area
What is Eczema
Practitioners of the technique teach clients how to improve their posture with minimal physical touch. It is a style of movement and body awareness to keep the skeletal system in alignment during daily activity.
What is the Alexander Technique?
These are formed when an injury causes small blood vessels to break and clots to assemble beneath the skin.
What are contusions and hematomas?
Generally considered to be the main principle and physical benefit of massage therapy.
What is increasing circulation?
The division of the Nervous System that massage targets
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System
Blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
What are arteries?
These are proprioceptors located in muscles that sense the rate and magnitude of increasing muscle tension as the muscle lengthens.
What are muscle spindles?
This modality uses light touch to manipulate the joints of the cranium, spine & pelvis.
What is Cranisacral Therapy
A process that releases the gas that accumulates in joint capsules due to regular wear and tear, poor posture, and/or acute injury.
What is a chiropractic adjustment?
They are adhesion in muscle and fascia that refer pain to other parts of the body when pressure is applies.
What are trigger points?
When a client develops an attachment to a therapist because the client feels that the therapist is the only one that listens to all of their personal problems as well as fixing muscular ones.
What is Transference?
Pain that lasts more than 6 weeks
What is Chronic Pain
What are capillaries?
This is the smallest unit of a muscle fiber and it contains the actin and myosin proteins responsible for the mechanical process of muscle contractions.
What is a sarcomere?
This modality focuses on very specific knots in any given muscle.
What is Trigger Point Therapy?
This is a percentage of revenue that a massage therapist is paid.
What is commission?
What does limited range of motion in muscle tissue indicate?
What is hypertonicity
Maintaining physical contact with the client during a massage helps with
This assures the clients comfort, safety and security during the service
To knead, Specific deep tissue work, focused on a particular muscle or knot
What is Petrissage
1 These are excitable, meaning they respond to stimuli;
2. contractile, meaning they can shorten and pull on connective tissue;
3. extensible, meaning they can be stretched repeatedly, but maintain the ability to contract;
4. elastic, meaning they rebound to their original length after a contraction.
What are the four properties of muscle tissue?
A network of tubular channels (called the T-tubule system) and vesicles, which provide structural integrity to the muscle fiber.
What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
This major blood vessel is the longest vein in the body and runs through the inguinal triangle and is a main reason massage in this area should usually be avoided.
What is the great saphenous vein?
These are a standardized set of rules in the health care industry to prevent the spread of infection.
What are universal precautions?
This refers to a restriction in blood supply.
What is ischemia?
The business must be transmitting medical information to third-party carriers such as insurance companies
A business that is considered a covered entity
Supine, client remains in inclined position on table with knees raised, Side lying position for back work with pillow under head, knees and by chest for client to hug
What are Important massage considerations for prenatal massage
The fibrous connective tissue connects muscle to bone.
What are Tendons?
These are proprioceptors that lie parallel to the extrafusal muscle fibers near the musculotendinous junction. They detect changes in the tension of an active muscle.
What are the Golgi tendon organs?
These major nerves are relatively superficial at the distal humerus.
What are the ulnar & radial nerves?
This is a string or wire attached to the ceiling of the room that is weighted so that it falls perfectly perpendicular to the ground for postural analysis
What is a plumb line?
When a client is laying on their back
What is the supine position?
This Law designed to keep personal health information private and secure
What is HIPPA
This modality considers the concept that plantar surface of the foot contains pressure points that correspond to almost every part of the physiological system of the body. Reflexology stimulates and releases tension in the specific points allowing the corresponding body parts to become balanced and healthy
What is reflexology
Also called the cardiovascular system, it is a network of organs and tubes that transport blood, hormones, nutrients, oxygen, and other gases to cells and tissues throughout the body
What is the circulatory system?
These type of joints are oval articular surfaces that nest in a complementary depression, allowing all angular movements.
What are condyloid joints?
This is the study of drugs and their physiological effects.
What is pharmacology?
This is the use of touch to identify a specific muscle or anatomical structure
What is palpation?
When a client is laying face down.
What is the prone postion?
On a computer in a password protected file and is only shared with authorized professionals
Where digital copies of intake forms and SOAP notes need to be stored
3 Neurotransmitters that are increased with physical touch
What is Seratonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin
This type of Capillary have openings that allow materials to be freely exchanged between the blood & tissues
What are Fenestrated Capillaries
These type of joints are bones separated by a fluid-containing joints cavity with articular cartilage covering the ends of the bone and forming a capsule.
What are synovial joints?
In this physiological issue, the pancreas does not produce enough insulin.
What is Type 1 Diabetes.
This is the amount of money an insured client is expected to pay for one office visit.
What is a copay?
This technique includes pressing into muscles, either along or against the direction of the fibers with an open palm or closed fist, take care not to overuse the knuckles.
What is compression?
Maximizing circulation and to keep it functioning properly massage strokes should move in what general direction
proximally toward the heart
With this modality, the therapist uses a combination of pressure and stretching along the bodies meridians or energy pathways. By eliminating blockages in one's Chi, health and wellbeing can be restored
What is Shiatsu
This fibrous connective tissue connects bone to bone.
What are Ligaments?
These type of joints are rounded structures that sit into a ring-like shape, allowing uniaxial rotation of the bone around the long axis.
What are pivot joints.
What is Paresthesia?
This technique breaks up superficial fascial adhesions and causes the deeper muscles in the area to relax
What is cupping?
This technique is a form of stretching tailored to athletes to optimize performance and facilitate post-event recovery.
The primary subject of a massage therapists code of ethics
What is Confidentiality
The most important step when treating a client for an oncology massage
What is sanitize all the surfaces and room before client enters because the population is commonly immunity compromised.
This gland is located in the chest cavity, embedded in connective tissue. It produces several hormones that are important for development and maintenance of T lymphocytes, which are important cells for immunity.
These type of joints are cylindrical projections that nest in a trough-shaped structure, single plane of movements.
What are hinge joints?
This modality provides vital education to therapists and enables them to provide healthily and helpful care to clients with cancer.
What is Oncology Massage?
This is a gentle electric stimulation of specific muscles that causes deep relaxation after an injury.
What is E-Stim?
This is the body's sense of limb position and orientation in space.
What is Proprioception?
the determining factor in whether or not the therapist needs to be HIPAA compliant
The business they work for is a covered entity
What is Pain