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Common Towel Law

Question 1 multiple choice


Cannot use same bedsheets or towels on different clients

How to wash sheets

Hot water, Heat Dry No fabric softener

Universal precautions

Method to protect self from blood exposure

Good body mechanics

Lunging using Core strength, stacking joints

Archer Stances

Wide stance Shift weight front and back

Horse stance

Facing right over your work

General to specific to General

Superficial to deep to superficial

Two physical effects

Mechanical and reflex effects


Mechanical or direct physical effects on the body such as circulation and relief of muscles


Reflex effects are in direct response to massage treatment typically on the nervous system or energy of the body

Petrissage

Knead and lift

Effleurage

Long strokes moves lymph and blood

Energy techniques

Do in


five elements shiatsu


Jin Shin do


Jin Shin jyutsu


touch for Health


Qigong


Reiki

Movement technique

Alexander technique


Aston patterning


feldenkrais


Pilates


Tai Chi


Yoga

Manipulation techniques

Ayurvedic massage


Lomi Lomi


Rolfing


zero balancing

Non-classified massage techniques

Aromatherapy


applied kinesiology

Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

Sympathetic is fight or flight parasympathetic is rest and Digest

2 stimulating and 2 sedating massage techniques

Stimulating massage technique is effleurage ischemic compression


Sedating massage techniques are friction and percussion

Informed consent

Permission to perform massage

Endangerment sites

Anatomical structures under surfaces such as veins and vital organs and major nerves

Hyperemia

Increased blood in an area of the body

Six contraindications

Cut or bruise Regional


hernia Regional


pregnancy conditional


cancer conditional


aneurysm in the heart absolute


uncontrolled hypertension absolute

Four signs of inflammation

Swelling redness heat and pain

Arndt Schultz law

Ischemic compression at about a 6 or 7 then when they say it's a 3 or 4 then back to A 6 or 7 on trigger point

Lymph massage

Helps to drain stagnant interstitial fluids toxins and proteins from the interstitial fluid hoping to rid the body of toxins and waste materials.


It stimulates the immune system by bringing more antigens in closer contact with lymph nodes

Benefits of lymph massage

Lymph massage promotes the balance of the body's internal chemistry, purifies and regenerates tissues, helps to normalize the functions of organs and enhances the function of the immune system

Part of Medicine

5000 years


part of western medicine for 3000

Anatripsis, Centripetal, distal to proximal

From leg to hip to center of heart

Per Henrik Ling

Father of physical therapy, develop Swedish movement cure

George Henry Taylor and Charles Taylor

Brothers who introduced the Swedish movement cure to the United States and brought massage to the public and medical acceptance

Fill in the blank: active and passive movements

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Fill in the blank: cross fiber friction

Invented by James cyriax

Scope of practice

Actions that are under your license description

Fill in the blank boundaries

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Fill in the blank homeostasis

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Ischemia

Lack of Blood supply

Fill in the blank effleurage

Long strokes

Fill in the blank reflexology

Points on the hands and feet that associate with organs

Fill in the blank Rolfing

Invented by Ida

James cyriax

Active first then passive than resistance to see problem muscles

Johann Metzger

Credited for modern massage terminology

6 major classifications of Massage

1. Touch


2.effleurage


3.petrissage


4.friction


5. Tappotment


6. joint movement

Fill in the blank ethics

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APPE

Assessment- involves reviewing any information available at the onset of the process to understand the present conditions


Planning- the information gained from the assessment is used to set treatment goals determines strategies and select therapeutic techniques to address the specific conditions found during the assessment


Perform- the actual application of selected techniques


Evaluation- examines outcome of the session in regard to the effectiveness of this selected procedure for the condition

Contractile and inert tissue

Contractile tissue is muscle tissue and tendinous attachment


Inert tissue is Bones nerves Bursa everything else

End feel

Changing the quality of feeling as the end of the movement is achieved ***passive

Components of movement

Flexion extension abduction adduction rotation

Active resisted movement

Tested tissue needs to be isometric to just assess the contractile tissue and not the inert tissue

Palpitation

The therapist listens to the clients body through the therapist hands

6 endangerment sites

Axilla armpit


abdomen under ribs upper area of abdomen


Ulnar knotch funny bone


medial brachia inner arm between triceps and biceps


popliteal fossa posterior of the knee inferior to the ham strings upper lumbar area inferior to the ribs lateral to spine

6 conditions relieved from massage

Insomnia


Back neck and shoulder pain


Headache and eye strain


Joint immobility and pain


Stress and tension of the body


Mental strain

Popularized chair massage

David Palmer

What areas are readily accessible in chair massage

Back shoulders neck and arms

Fill in the blank Postural and phasic muscle

Postural is type 1 it reacts to stress by tightening and becoming short


Phasic is Type 2 reacts to stress by fatiguing and muscle weakness

Fill in the blank myofascial massage

The combination of muscle tissue that is related connective tissue or fasha

Neuromuscular techniques

A group of techniques that assess and address soft tissue dysfunction by affecting the neurologic mechanisms that control the muscle

Fill in the blank trigger point

A nodule associated with dysfunctional contractile tissue that list it's a pain response when digital pressure is applied

4 step therapy protocol

1. Decrease ischemia and trigger points in soft tissue


2. Restore flexibility with joint mobilization and passive and active stretching


3. Rebuild strength with exercise and weight training


4. Restore endurance with conditioning exercises