Pathology
A condition marked by chronic, widespread, muscular, skeletal pain, fatigue, and tenderness in localized areas.
Fibromyalgia
The organ primarily responsible for the nutrient absorption in the digestive system.
Small intestine
This refers to the moral principles and rules that guide behavior, ensuring individuals act in a way that is fair, just, and responsible.
What are ethics?
This muscle allows adduction of the hip
What is the pectineus?
When you make sure you're fully engaged when the client speaks, noting not only their words, but also their tone and body language
What is active listening?
Produces bile
What is your liver?
It's function as to protect against pathogens, receives stimuli from the environment, helps control, body temperature, produces vitamin D, and removes some wastes (sweat).
What is the integumentary system?
An autoimmune disorder affecting the synovial membrane, leading to inflammation, pain, and joint damage.
Rheumatoid arthritis
This layer of skin contains hair, follicles, connective tissue, and sweat glands.
What is the dermis?
This refers to the emotional reactions, biases, or perceptions that a therapist may have toward a client, influenced by the therapist's own personal experiences and unconscious feelings.
What is Countertransference
This is the origin of humeral rotators
What is the scapula?
These allow clients to provide more context about their health and expectations- for example, instead of asking, do you have back pain, try, can you describe any discomfort or areas of tension You are experiencing.
What are open ended questions
Produces insulin
What is pancreas?
Creates framework of the body, protects internal organs, produces red blood cells, act as lovers for muscles to provide mobility, stores minerals
What is the skeletal system?
This is a contagious, fungal infection that can spread to other areas of the body or to the therapist through a massage therapy.
Ringworm
This is the name of the long shaft of a bone
What is the diaphysis?
A consumer protection process; it requires that clients be informed of the steps of treatment, that's our participation be voluntary, and that they be competent to give consent.
What is informed consent?
A synergist to medial rotation of the hip
Lliacus
Tensor fascia latae
Sartorius
What is the Tensor fascia latae
Looking for any asymmetry or deviations that could signal muscular skeletal imbalances
What is postural analysis?
The study of the gross structure of the human body
What is anatomy?
Allows manipulation of the environment, locomotion, and facial expression. Maintains posture and produces heat.
What is the muscular system?
This is a chronic condition that affects how your body processes blood sugar. Symptoms include increased thirst, frequent urination, and fatigue. Management often involves lifestyle, change, monitoring, blood sugar, levels, and medication.
Diabetes
These muscles work in pairs to create movement
What is agonists and antagonists
The knowledge base and practice parameters of a profession
Scope of practice
This joint has the greatest range of movement
Pivot
Ball and socket
Saddle
Ball and socket
Observing The way your client moves can reveal limitations or dysfunctions
What is gate observation?
Superior 🍓
Inferior
Anterior
Posterior
Proximal
Distal
Medial
Lateral
Deep
Superficial
What are the main directional terms?
Receives an interprets stimuli and transmit impulses to the effective organs. Fast acting control system, provides communication communications throughout the body.
What is the nervous system?
A chronic condition caused by a virus. It is characterized by the progressive destruction of the immune system, making the body less able to fight infections and certain cancers. It represents the most advanced stages of a certain infection, where the immune system is severely compromised.
AIDS
Where Blood from the left atrium goes
What is the aorta?
An assessment and treatment process that a massage therapist should follow for a certain type of clinical circumstance performed at the level at which similarly qualified practitioners. Manage the clients care under the same or similar circumstances.
What is standard of care?
The structure by which bone connects to another bone
Tendon
Ligament
Cartlidge
Ligament
Gently aiding your clients movements to reveal limitations.
What is passive ROM assessment?
Important for viewing structures from different aspects of the body
What are body planes?
Where Glands secrete hormones that regulate processes, such as growth, reproduction, and nutrient use (metabolism )by body cells
What is the endocrine system?