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19 Cards in this Set
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What is chiropractic physiology? |
It is the dignosis and treatment of the body using natual ways of healing such as cold, light, heat, massage |
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What are the most used types of psysiotherapy? |
Cold, electricity, exercise, heat, light. Massage, nutrition, oriental therapy, vibration, and water |
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Actinotherapy |
Treatment by use of light such as actinic light, and chemical light |
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What is actinic light? |
Rays of short wavelengths occuring in violet and ultraviolet spectrums |
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Cryotherapy |
Tratment by use of cold-applying cold packs to relieve swelling |
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Electrotherapy |
Treatment by using electricity |
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Hydrotherapy |
Treatment using water |
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Mechanotherapy |
Treatment using active and passive exercise. This usually involves traction, braces, shoe lifts, casts, and supports |
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Meridian therapy |
Treatment using the oriental method |
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Nutritional therapy |
Using nutritional planning, dieting, and food nutritional supplements |
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Rehabilitative therapy |
Training to help the patient physically, psychologically, socially, and vocationally |
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Trigger point therapy |
Stimulating trigger points |
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Vibrational therapy |
Massage and soft tissue manipulation |
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What makes physiologic therapies more effective then others |
It conditions the body to allow for the body to respond to treatment |
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What effects can thermal treatment have |
Hyperemia, reduction of sensory or moter irritations, reduction of microorganisms |
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What are the effects of cryotherapy |
Sedation, decongestion, reduced blood flow |
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What are the effects of ultraviolet |
Skin reddening, pigmintation, activation of ergosterol |
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What are effects of ultrasound |
Cellular massage, heat, sedation |
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Electric currents |
Muscle stimulization, increased blood flow, reflex stimulation |
