Chapter 10
the capacity of an individual to obtain, communicate, and understand health information and services when making decisions.
What is Health literacy?
Who requires a prescription for massage?
insurance companies
a holistic wellness system focused on natural healing through a combination of hydrotherapy, exercise, nutrition, medicinal plants, and a balanced lifestyle
What is Kneipp Therapy?
The brain’s ability to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or experience.
What is neuroplasticity
Observational evaluation of how a client holds themselves
What is a postural assessment?
PICO
What is Patient/Client/Population, Intervention, Comparison, Control, Outcome-form a question about specific client problem and search for relevant information?
Persistent high blood pressure and protein in the urine. Usually develops after 20 weeks of gestation. Can be fatal.
What is preeclampsia?
type of spa treatment that uses seawater and other marine elements, like seaweed and mud, for therapeutic purposes
What is Thalassotherapy?
abnormal sensations, such as burning, itching, numbness, tingling or prickling, often called the “pins and needles” which may or may not include the sensation of pain.
What is Paresthesia?
What is skin blanching called?
Ischemia. Lack of blood flow. Trigger points-sustained compression.
note taking format where assessment section contains subjective and objective, as well as client’s diagnosis-from nursing
What is APIE?
length of pregnancy- 9 months in humans
What is Gestation?
temperature at which skin can be burned in 7.5 minutes
What is 115’?
network of nerves, formed by some ventral rami from the spinal cord.
What is a Plexus?
Massage technique utilizing a load Using sustained stretching strokes
What is myofascial release?
Onset, Provocative, Palliative, Quality, Radiation, Site, Timing
What is OPPQRST?
the 6 weeks after delivery of a fetus/baby
What is Postpartum?
a vapor bath taken in a ceramic tiled room, cabinet, or canopy. 105-120’
What is a Steam bath?
type of neuropathy originating in the spinal cord nerve roots
What is Radiculopathy?
recommended protocols for the first stages of inflammation
What is MCE-move compress elevate-Instruct clients to move safely when they can ( and often), using pain as a boundary. Soft tissues can be compressed with bandages or cloth and the injured area can be elevated whenever possible.
HIPAA
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-to protect clients rights and targets the storage, transmission, and dissemination of personal health information?
the period in which a fetus develops inside a woman's womb or uterus.
What is Pregnancy?
Vichy shower
warm water sprayed over a client lying on a shallow table.
the encoding of a painful event
What is Nociception?
body fills and covers wound-lasts 8 weeks. Red, raised and rigid.
Healing Stage 3-Proliferation