Pathology
Massage Therapy Outcomes
Stages of Injury
Impairments
100

Pain at 1 or both SI joints that progressively travels up the spine

Ankylosing Spondylitis

100

Massage therapy can help clients with ankylosing spondylitis...

Decrease pain, maintain ROM

100

These approaches are most helpful for someone with an ACUTE lumbar sprain or strain

Gentle work to the lumbar erectors, QL's, glutes, legs, and unaffected side

100

This is the most likely cause of supraspinatus tendonitis

Overuse of the shoulder

200

A bursa is most palpable in this state

inflammation

200

Massage therapy is ___ for chronic fatigue syndrome

Safe and appropriate

200

Overpressure is ____ before a fracture has completed healed

Contraindicated

200

This is the carpal bone that is most commonly fractured

Scaphoid

300

These muscles are involved in de Quervain's tenosynovitis

Abductor pollicis longus, extensor pollicis brevis

300

Reducing tension in the temporalist, suboccipital, and trapezius muscles may help reduce this type of headache

Tension headache

300

Your friend walks into your house 10 minutes after they injured their knee. Their knee is already twice the size it was 10 minutes ago. You...

Refer them to the hospital- this is most likely a 3rd degree sprain of a knee ligament

300

It is likely that a person is experiencing tendonitis if there is pain on these 3 things

Palpation, stretch, resisted action

400

Ligaments do not have a lot of blood flow. This is known as _____

Hypovascular

400

Massage Therapy can help reduce ____ degeneration of articular cartilage

Inflammatory

400

In an acute ligament sprain, _____ can be assumed as well

Muscle guarding
400

A client presents with pain on resisted shoulder flexion, pain with forearm supination, and pain with palpation of the bicipital groove. This is most likely...

Tendinopathy of the biceps

500

A bone breaks into 3 pieces and breaks through the skin. This is known as a _____ type of fracture (hint- it's two types)

Comminuted compound

500

Contracting the antagonist muscle can help reduce or eliminate this common frustration

Muscle cramping

500

A client has a very old scar that shows no signs of fragility. Why should we still check in when treating it?

Scars can have emotional trauma associated with them
500

The most commonly injured ligament in ankle sprains is the ____________

Anterior talofibular ligament