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Pain Management
Clinical Application Methods
Clinical Assessments
Common Client Conditions
Kinesiology
100
Massage used to rehabilitate injuries, manage medically diagnosed conditions, their treatments or complications, or manage issues related to surgery.

What is clinical massage?

100

Methods that combine isometric contraction and stretching.

What are muscle energy techniques (MET) and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF)?

100
The amount of motion that occurs when one body segment moves in relationship to another body segment.

What is range of motion (ROM)?

100

Dull, aching head pain with tenderness in the scalp, neck and shoulder muscles and pressure in the forehead and temples.

What is a tension headache?

100

Helps muscles and tendons move as a unit.

What is fascia?

200

Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling, actual or potential tissue damage.

What is pain?

200

Placement of a target muscle into a shortened, comfortable position.

What is positional release?
200

Movement produced by external forces without voluntary contraction.

What is passive range of motion (PROM)?

200
The masseter, temporalis, lateral and medial pterygoid muscles would likely need to be addressed in this condition.

What is temporomandibular dysfunction?

200

Muscles that are prime movers.

What are agonists?

300

Pain lasting less than 30 days and usually related to injuries, diseases, or invasvie procedures such as surgery.

What is acute pain?

300

Gentle superficial skin stretching, performed lightly, slowly, and rhythmically without lubricant over lymphatic pathways.

What is manual lymph drainage?

300
This can determine postural abnormalities that may cause or contribute to a client's complaint.

What is postural assessment?

300
The narrow space between the clavicle and the first rib through which the brachial plexus and subclavian artery and vein pass.

What is the thoracic outlet?

300

Muscles that stabilize the motion of agonists.

What are fixators?

400

You are holding static compression in a client's gluteus medius muscle at a significant depth.  They indicate any more pressure would be unbearable.  You have reached their level of this. 

What is pain tolerance?

400

A client complains of a local pain in the shoulder with dull pain midway down the arm. You expect to find one of these while working the deltoid.

What is a trigger point?

400
The plane in which you might observe lateral deviation of the spine.

What is the midsaggital plane?

400

Common symptoms of this may include reduced active and passive range of motion in the shoulder joint, difficulty performing daily activities such as reaching overhead or behind the back.

What is adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)?

400

Muscles that move on demand, react to stimuli, fatigue easily, and rest when not in use.

What are phasic muscles?

500
A client tore her gastrocnemius while running a marathon 10 months ago.  Though the injury has healed, she complains of tension and discomfort in her lower leg.  She is likely experiencing this.

What is chronic pain?

500

A client complains of middle and low back pain that has not been reduced by massage to the areas that hurt.  The problem could be this.

What is referred pain?

500
Your postural assessment reveals significant pronation of the feet.  You should expect to find tension in these muscles.

What are the fibularis muscles?

500

Compression of the median nerve that leads to pain, numbness, and weakness in the hand and fingers, particularly the thumb, index, and middle fingers.

What is carpal tunnel syndrome?

500

A client has limited ROM performing elbow flexion. This muscle would most likely hinder this action.

What is the triceps brachii?