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where does the word massage come from? |
Arabic "mass" to touch or Greek "massein" to knead |
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who is Asclepides? |
Greek physician who promoted massage, exercise and hydrotherapy |
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which Romans used massage? |
both rich and poor |
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who used massage in baths? |
Romans |
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who was Per Ling? |
created sweedish massage which was called medical gymnastics |
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who was Augustus Georgii |
Per Lings pupil who published a book on his findings after his death in 1839 |
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Who is Johan Metzger? |
a physician in Amsterdam who backed up massage therapy with physiology, pathology and anatomy |
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in the 19th century what happened for massage therapy? |
became a specialized branch of nursing |
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what was formed in 1895 and what did that group do? |
the society of trained masseuses who created training courses, and examinations to standardize massage therapy |
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what did the society of trained massues become? |
the chartered society of physiotherapists |
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who is information gathered? |
scientific method: hypothesis, observe and measure then conclude |
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what are the effects of massage in general? |
increases muscle flexibility, relaxation, decrease stress levels |
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what can massage do for pain control? |
massage reduces and manages pain that arises from a variety of sources (trauma, post-sugery, headache, fribromyalgia, arthritis, and terminal illness) |
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what can massage do for circulation? |
massage locally and temporairly increases circulation, massage improves tissue health and can decrease blood pressure. |
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what can massage do for the lympthatic system? |
massage improves lympthatic flow, reduces edema (swelling) ease pain, lower chance of scar tissue, and remove metabolic wastes. |
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what can massage do for the respiratory system? |
what can massage do for the immune system? |
increase activity of immune system, activity of white blood cells |
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what are the physological effects of massage? |
massage can reduce stress, anxiety and depression |
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what is it that massage cannot do? |
massage cannot: increase muscle tone, increase muscle strength, decrease cellulite, prevent denervated tissue |
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what can massage do for the musculoskeletal system? |
massage can relax muscles, decrease spasms, improve resting muscle length, reduce trigger points, fibrosis and adhesions |
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what are the four T's of palpation? |
Temperature, texture, tenderness, and tone |
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what can temperature indicate? |
indicating inflammation or ischemia |
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what can texture determine? |
healthy is even, adhesions are sticky, crepitus roughness in joint or crunchy |
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how do you know if tissue is tender? |
wincing, or pulling away |
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what is tone |
hypertonic is an increase in tone relative to nearby muscles. hypotonic decrease relative to nearby muscles |
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what is palpation? |
palpation is the placement of the therapists hands on the clients tissues to assess their condition |
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how is palpation performed? |
bilaterally unaffected side first, broad light touch, then fingertips to be specific |
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what are soap notes? |
a method of collecting clear organised information. |
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what does S.O.A.P stand for? |
S. subjective (what the client tells you) O. objective (notice, testing, findings) A. assessment (possible condition) P. plan (tx plan) |
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what is tapotement? |
percussive and rhythmic tap, drum or patting |
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how is tapotement preformed? |
light deep light |
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what is heavy tapotemnt? |
hands firm, wrists relaxed, deeper force. Hacking, Clapping/Cupping, Beating |
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what is light tapotement |
light and springy, pincement and taping |
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what are the effects of tapotement? |
loosen mucus. increase local circulation. stimulating. reciprocal inhibition of the antagonist. stimulate hypotrohpred muscles |
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what is petrissage? |
kneading, muscle squeezing, m. stripping, wringing, picking up, skin rolling |
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what is m̃ squeezing |
muscle is compressed between palm and fingers |
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what is m̃ stripping? |
moderate to deep pressure muscle contour is followed |
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what is wringing? |
each hand moves in an opposite direction and then back to the initial position |
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what is m̃ picking up? |
squeezing the muscle and lighting it up from underlying tissue |
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what is skin rolling? |
skin is lifted between thumb and fingers and gently rolled over the area being treated |
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what is kneading? |
thumb, fingertips, palmar, ulnar of hand or forearm unidirectional/circular movements |
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what are the effects of petrissage? |
local circulation. m̃ fibre and connective tissue adhesions can be loosened. treat trigger points. radical restrictions |
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what is effleurage? |
gliding, stroking, used to spread lubricant. prepares for deeper techniques |
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what are the effects of effleurage? |
relaxive, sedative, reduce pain. |
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what is stroking? |
an introductory or closing technique that is among the lightess of techniques. |
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what are the effects of stroking? |
soothing |
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what are vibrations? |
muscles of the forearm are alternately contracted and relaxed to create a rhythmic movement through the hand |
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what are fine vibrations? |
very short, fast, almost invisible oscillations of the arm and hand |
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what are coarse vibrations |
larger, more obserable [vigorous] oscillations of the arm and hand |
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what are static vibrations? |
vibrations that keep the hand in continuous contact with the tissue without sliding over the clients skin |
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what are running vibrations? |
vibrations that have the hand in continuous contact with the tissue and the vibrating hand moves over the clients skin |
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what are the effects of vibrations? |
useful for painful areas. sensory reeducation. mechanically loosen mucus when preformed on thorax. decrease muscle tone |
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what is diaphragmatic breathing |
abdominal breathing |
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what is relaxed inhalation? |
the respiratory diaphragm contracts and descends compressing the abdominal visera |
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what is relaxed exhalation? |
passive process that involves the relaxation of all the muscles of inspiration |
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what is apical breathing? |
inefficent breathing pattern where the client mainly uses the uoper part of the lungs (apex). abdomen hardly moves |
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what is paradoxical breathing? |
when a clients abdomen does not appear to rise during inhalation. |
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what is the first step of diaphragmatic breathing? |
hands on the abdomen and client is told to raise your hands with their breath |
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what is the second step of diaphragmatic breathing? |
hands placed on lateral ribs and client told to move hands out with their breathing |
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what is the third and final step of diaphragmatic breathing? |
finger tips placrs on the manubrim below sternal notch and client told to lift fingertips with breath |
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what is proper exhalation? |
relax the diaphragm first, intercostal mucles and then neck |
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what are the effects of diaphragmatic breathing? |
increased relaxation, lympthatic flow, gas exchange, facillitates stretching techniques, decreases pain and stress |
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what are contraindications to diaphragmatic breathing? |
people with long term diabetes and kidney disease |
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what is the prone position? |
client on stomach pillow under abdomen, pillow under ankles, face in face cradle |
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what position is sidelying? |
side to be treated turned uppermost pillow under head, pillow to hug, pillow between knees |
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what is the supine position? |
client laying on their back, head on table pillow under knees |
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what is the prone draping? |
undtape the back to PSIS levels. undrape leg to greater trochanter. |
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draping for sidelying? |
undrape back to illiac crest, undrape leg to greater trochanter |
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what is the draping for supine? |
grape the pectoral muscles to the rise of the breast. 1 hand bwteen grape and clavical. legs to greater trochanter |
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what is a contraindication? |
a CI is something that makes a particular tx inadisable |
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what is a tx modification? |
a change in the initial tx plan |
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medications |
medications may require modifications to tx plan |
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analegesics |
the client is unable to give accurate into about pain perception. asprin. Tylenol. anapox. motrin. |
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anti-asthmatic medications |
can cause increased heart and respiration rates. vigorous deep hydrotherapy contraindicated. Ventolin |
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anticogulants |
slow the clothing process. deep reptivie, m̃ stripping can lead to bruising. asprin. coumadin. heparin. |
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antidepressants |
can alter the normal responses of the vasculature to temp change. full body hydrotherapy contraindicated. dizapam. Prozac. paxil. |
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anti-inflammatories |
supression of the inflammatory process can make an assessment inacurate. asprins. Tylenol. clinoril. |
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corticosteroids |
specialized anti-inflammatory injections tablets or creams . injection sight avoided for 12- 14 hours. topicort cortisol corticream aclovate |
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muscle relaxants |
alter stretch response of a muscle. deep techniques, extreme stretches are contraindications. flexeril. diazepam. norflex. |
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what is stress? |
the body's non-specific response to any demand made upon it. distress = bad eustress = good |
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what can cause stress? |
emotions. threats to self esteem. pain. excessive intake of a stimulant. pathology. environmental exposure. |
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what are stressors. |
potential triggers to the stress response |
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what is stress reactivity? |
individual way a person responds to stress |
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a brief acute stress that doesn't recur |
response is rapid and efficient |
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a series of stressful secondary events can.... |
can increase a persons physiological response to potential stress |
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chronic and sustained stressors |
continual exposure to stressors fatigues the stress response and impairs effectiveness. |
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General adaptaion syndrome |
explains the effects of long term stress on the body and helps explain why stress can cause illness |
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General adapatiom syndrome alarm |
first exposure to certain stress the body's cortisol is high and no one organ system is predominantly active. |
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General adaptation syndrome resistance and adaptation? |
exposure to stress the body tries to resist and adapt to it, resistance response rises above normal, limtee about of energy for stess adaptation |
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General adaptation syndrome exhaustion |
long exposute to same stress adapative energy is exhausted acute stress response begins again |
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autonomic nervous system |
regulates internal functions divided into two.parts parasympatheic and the sympathetic nervous system |
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parasympatheic nervous system |
conserved energy and served to restore and maintain organ function slows heart rate and promotes the digestion of food |
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sympathetic nervous system |
expense the body's energy fight or flight response |
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what does the sympathetic nervous system cause? |
sweating, mental alertness, ^metabolism glucose & fat fr liver for quick energy. construction of blood vessels. ^blood pressure. apical breathing. dilation of pupils. |
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