Words Starting with "C"
The three main methods of heat transfer.
What are conduction, convection, and conversion?
A posited mechanism by which non-noxious stimuli can modulate pain sensation.
What is The Gate Control Theory, by Melzack and Wall (1965).
Pellagra, porphyria, sarcoidosis, acute psoriasis, lupus, eczema, herpes simplex, xeroderma pigmentosum.
What are contraindications for Light Therapy?
A method of treating motion restrictions based on the concept of somatic dysfunctions to improve a patient's overall function.
What is manual therapy?
Bactericidal therapy that may be prescribed to increase the vascularization of wound margins in both septic and aseptic wounds.
What is light therapy, or ultraviolet radiation?
The transfer of heat between two bodies at different temperatures through direct contact.
What is Conduction?
Two modalities that, when combined, have been shown to significantly increase tendon extensibility.
What are heat and stretching?
A type of tissue that is unable to provide an adequate vascular response when heated, which can lead to ischemic necrosis.
What is scar tissue?
Strain-counterstrain, indirect balancing, functional (balanced ligamentous tension), indirect myofascial release, craniosacral therapy.
What are indirect techniques?
0.8 to 1.1MHz
What is the prescribed frequency for Ultrasound?
A modality that leads to decreased spasticity vs decreased muscle spindle activity and decreased Golgi tendon organ activity.
What is Cold Therapy.
A modality that utilizes the massage action of a turbulent solid-gas mixture.
What is Fluidotherapy?
RA, Down syndrome, Marfan syndrome, achondroplasia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and also spine conditions with significant cord compromise, infections processes, and vertibrobasilar insufficiency.
What are contraindications to Cervical Spine Traction?
A technique that involves instructed movement of the patient against a defined resistance by the practitioner.
What is muscle energy technique (direct isometric type)?
A modality you might prescribe to speed the resolution of a hematoma.
What is Microwave Diathermy?
A heat transfer modality that may be used to achieve deeper tissue penetration.
What is Conversion?
What is phonophoresis?
Skeletal immaturity, or use near pacemakers, tumors, or over prosthetic joints containing PMMA or high density polyethylene.
What are contraindications to Ultrasound?
(other US contraindications: near brain/spine, near heart or reproductive organs, at infection sites, near eyes, over arthroplasties)
A technique used for chest therapy in conjunction with postural drainage.
What is tapotement? (or percussion)
The average intensity (range) prescribed for US treatment of tendinitis/bursitis.
What is 1.2 to 1.8 W/cm2?
With this modality distal limbs receive alternating heat and cold in a whirlpool tank to produce reflex hyperthermia.
What are Contrast baths?
A technique for treating myofascial and musculoskeletal pain that utilizes evaporative cooling.
What is the "spray-and-stretch" technique?
Percent by which metabolic demand is increased for each 10deg increase in skin temperature.
What is 100%
(Ischemia--ie arterial insufficiency--is a contraindication for heat therapies.
Forceful massage of the fascial muscle system in a stretched position, used for reduction of contractures.
What is soft tissue mobilization?
The minimal exposure time required to cause erythema on the volar surface of the forearm.
What is the Minimal Erythema Dosage (MED)?