Sensitive Zones
When palpating the torso, be cautious of this area located at the base of the sternum.
What is the Xiphoid Process?
A client has the right to do this at any point during the treatment process.
This refers to the range of actions a licensed massage therapist is legally allowed to perform.
What is Scope of Practice?
A type of technique where the therapist moves the client's joint while the client remains relaxed and does not assist in the movement.
What is Passive Movement?
This term refers to a hyperirritable spot within a taut band of muscle that can refer pain to other areas.
What is a Trigger Point?
This one of the Four Ts of palpation refers to the level of pain or discomfort experienced when pressure is applied to an area of the body.
What is Tenderness?
This safety feature should be offered to clients during a treatment, allowing them to communicate discomfort levels.
What is a Pain or Pressure Scale?
This action involves determining whether a client's range of motion (ROM) has increased, decreased, or remains normal.
What is Assessing Range of Motion?
This system of movement exercises was codified by Per Henrik Ling in the 1800s, designed to increase flexibility, strength, and circulation, often used as part of therapeutic massage.
What are Swedish Gymnastics?
This individual is credited with mapping out the locations of trigger points in their book "Myofascial Pain and Trigger Points."
Who is Janet Travell?
This triangular area at the front of the elbow where nerves and blood vessels are located is a common site of caution during massage.
What is the Cubital Fossa?
This is the ethical and legal obligation to keep all information about the client, including their health history and details of their treatment, private and secure.
What is Confidentiality?
This form serves as the primary tool for screening a client’s potential contraindications to treatment.
What is a Health History?
This is the term for the practice of ensuring proper hygiene, like hand washing, to maintain a safe and clean environment during massage.
What is Sanitation?
This involuntary body movement can occur when a trigger point is palpated.
What is a Jump Sign?
This rhythmic beat is felt when blood is flowing through arteries, signaling a potential caution zone during palpation.
What is a Pulse?
This is the principle that the client has the right to make decisions about their own treatment, including the right to consent or refuse treatment, without coercion or pressure from the therapist.
What is Client Autonomy?
This conversation takes place between the therapist and client during the intake process, where the therapist gathers information about the client’s health, lifestyle, and concerns.
What is the Verbal Interview?
This is the minimum amount of time the CDC recommends washing hands to prevent the spread of germs.
What is 20 seconds?
This is the therapeutic use of water, including its heat-retaining properties, to promote relaxation, relieve pain, and improve circulation.
What is Hydrotherapy?
These FOUR types of structure are primary sites of caution that are sensitive and may require modifications in technique or pressure to ensure safety and avoid injury.
What are Nerves, Arteries, Veins, and Organs?
This is the legal and professional standard ensuring that the therapist possesses the necessary skills and knowledge to explain the treatment and risks to a client in an understandable manner.
What is Competency?
These are desired outcomes or objectives the client hopes to achieve from their massage therapy, often clarified during the health history intake.
What are Client Goals?
This Swedish massage principle indicates that massage starts with broader strokes, progresses to more focused techniques, and finishes with broader strokes to promote relaxation and ease.
General → Specific → General
This cushion is used to support the body during massage, typically placed under the ankles when prone or behind the knees when supine, providing comfort and correct alignment.
What is a Bolster?