Soft Tissue Mobilization
This STM technique includes lifting, squeezing, and kneading
What is petrissage?
30-60 pps
What is the frequency required to produce a tetanic summated contraction?
Documentation of the patient's "voice" and current status.
What is "Subjective"?
The US frequency used for a deep tissue structure
What is 1 MHz?
How long we wash our hands for.
What is 20 seconds?
Over the carotid sinus
What is a contraindication to estim?
This STM technique may help align collagen fibers
What is cross-friction massage (transverse friction massage)
Action to increase the depth of penetration and polarization of stim.
What is moving the electrodes further apart?
Documented in the Objective section (2 categories)
What are 1) results of assessments (tests and measures) and 2) interventions?
Percent of arterial occlusion pressure used during BFR
What is 50-70%?
When do we absolutely have to disinfect equipment?
What is after we've used it with a patient on contact precautions?
One negative polarity medication and one positive polarity medication
What are dexamethasone and lidocaine?
This STM technique may stimulate muscle and tendon tissue.
What is tapotement?
The beat frequency
What is the frequency that is the resultant difference between the frequencies of two crossing AC currents?
Type of language/writing used
What is professional/medical terminology?
An area treated by US should be no more than 2-3x the size of ___?
What is the ERA (Effective Radiating Area)?
Working under the mindset that every patient may have a transmittable disease?
What are standard precautions?
The purpose of a dispersive pad
What is to focus greater current density on the area to be treated (the larger dispersive has less current density)
Compromised sensation is a ___________ to STM?
What is precaution?
Single phase current with only one direction (polarity)
What is direct current?
3 reasons for documenting well
What are 1) continuity of care, 2) legal protection 3) medical necessity?
Numbness, DOMS, bruising
What are potential side effects of BFR?
PPE when working with a patient on contact precautions?
What are gloves and gowns?
What is the depolarization threshold increases?
Assisting the lymphatic system
What is a mechanical effect of STM?
Parameter determining whether a response is sensory or motor
What is the pulse width/phase duration?
Section where "Pain intensity during joint mobilization impairing speed of progression of ROM" belongs
What is Assessment?
Blood flow restriction (BFR) mechanism of action
What is creating hypoxic ms environment (increased metabolites-lactic acid and protons, produces GH, recruits Type IIb fibers)
Type of precautions for a patient with the flu (influenza)?
What is Droplet Precautions?
The electrodes for NMES should be applied over the X
What is motor point?
Connective tissue that provides a dynamic structure by supporting and connecting all moving parts
What is fascia?
3 indications for motor e-stim
What are motor re-education, decrease swelling and decrease muscle spasm
Acronym (and what it stands for) for what should be documented for each therapeutic exercise
What is FITT: Frequency, Intensity, Timing and Type?
Increases levels of growth factors to stimulate tenocytes and collagen proliferation
What is Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT)?
The action we take after an exposure following securing the patient safely and calling for assistance.
What is flush or wash the affected area with water for 15 minutes.
How ionto works
What is a medication with a certain polarity is driven into the tissues by being repelled by an electrical current holding the same charge (polarity)
Contusion (bleeding in muscle)
What is a contraindication for STM?
Level of the ICF for stair climbing status.
What is Activity?
What is produce molecular collision causing metabolic changes (healing)- increased O2 delivery and pain threshold via altering nerve function. Plus thermal effects
A disease that is transmitted and acquired in the hospital.
What is noscomial?
The waveform for Russian stimulation?
What is alternating current?
Stimulating sensory receptors in the skin and superficial connective tissue
What is a reflexive effect of STM?
The neuron types that are inhibited by TENS (gate control parameters).
What are A-delta and C fibers?
The purpose of the Assessment statement
What is to provide clinical reasoning/analysis of the patient's status and course of care?
How therapeutic LASER works
What is mitochondria absorb the light, increases protein synthesis and cell proliferation, thought to speed tissue healing and reduce pain
PPE worn with someone on airborne precautions?
What is a respirator? (And gowns. gloves and eye protection if contact likely)
What is chronaxie?