Massage 1
This refers to a localized, hyperirritable spot in skeletal muscle that can refer pain to other areas.
What is a trigger point?
This technique uses sustained pressure on a hypersensitive area to reduce ischemia and pain.
What is ischemic compression?
Developed in England during the 1930s and 1940s by Stanley Lief, this soft-tissue approach focuses on trigger points, ischemia, and neuromuscular dysfunction.
What is Neuromuscular Therapy?
This law explains why pain patterns repeat in the same area and trigger points tend to return there.
What is the Law of Facilitation?
What are the 4 muscles that flex the shoulder: pectoralis major, biceps brachii, coracobrachialis, and _____ _________?
What is anterior deltoid?
This type of palpation is used on muscles like the upper trapezius and sternocleidomastoid.
What is pincer palpation?
When performing ischemic compression, changes in tissue are typically perceived within this time frame.
What is 8–12 seconds?
These nodules are described as this when they produce pain or paresthesia upon pressure.
What is hyperirritable?
This law states that weak stimuli stimulate physiological activity, while strong stimuli inhibit it.
What is the Arndt-Schultz Law?
What are the 4 muscles that extend the knee: vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, vastus medialis, and ______ _______?
What is rectus femoris?
This technique involves sustained pressure applied to a trigger point to temporarily restrict blood flow and promote tissue normalization.
What is ischemic compression?
This type of palpation finding may suggest underlying tissue or organ dysfunction.
What is general tenderness?
This theory explains how non-painful nerve signals can block or reduce the perception of pain.
What is Gate Control Theory?
This law states that the anterior (ventral) spinal nerve roots are motor and the posterior (dorsal) roots are sensory.
What is Bell's Law?
What are the 3 muscles that supinate the forearm: biceps brachii, supinator, and ________?
What is brachioradialis?
This primary NMT technique uses the thumb to move across, along, and through tissues.
What is gliding?
This quadriceps muscle lies deepest and is not directly palpable.
What is vastus intermedius?
Trigger points with this type of onset are often the result of chronic muscle overload, and the cause can be harder to identify.
What is gradual onset?
This law explains why nerve impulses tend to follow the same pathways once they’ve been established.
What is the Law of Facilitation?
What are the 2 muscles that retract the mandible?
What are temporalis and masseter?
Neuromuscular lesions with trigger points are usually hypersensitive to ________?
What is pressure?
This muscle is the primary flexor of the elbow and also assists in shoulder flexion and forearm supination.
What is the biceps brachii?
This theory describes how activation of non-nociceptive nerves can block pain signals.
What is Gate Control Theory?
This law explains how pressure along the spine can initiate spinal cord reflexes.
What is Bell’s Law?
What are the 4 muscles that rotate the vertebral column: external oblique, internal oblique, multifidus, and _________?
What is rotatores?
This type of pressure is ineffective in trigger point pressure release because it cannot elicit a hypersensitive response.
What is light pressure?
This muscle is the main “cap” of the shoulder and is responsible for abduction of the arm.
What is the deltoid?
What is the extra dorsiflexor muscle that is sometimes absent in individuals and not always included in standard lists?
What is fibularis (peroneus) tertius?
Which neurological law states that the nerve supplying a joint also supplies the muscles that move it and the skin over those muscles’ insertions?
What is Hiltons law?
What are the 3 main muscles that dorsiflex the ankle: tibialis anterior, extensor hallucis longus, and ______ _______ ______?
What is extensor digitorum longus?