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A skilled professional application, without movement, applied with intelligence, control, and purpose:
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touch
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Touch combined with motion, moving 1-2 per second in one direction only, generally in the direction of blood flow in the arteries.
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Stroking
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A client reports feeling strange sensations on the skin of his back, among which are numbness tingling, and crawling sensations. Which kellogg procedure would you use
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Digital stroking
Palmar stroking Passive touch |
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Scliosis is
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Lateral deviation of the spine
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A client is experiencing insominia what kellogg procedure would you use
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Passive touch
Digital stroking Palmar stroking |
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A client has pelvic pain. Where should you do derivative friction
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Lower back
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A client come into the office and is visibly upset. He also appears to be hyper. He is moving quickly, speaking quickly, and you can see signs of stress in his facial features. Which combination of procedures would you use
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Passive Touch
Palmar stroking |
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Lightly touching the part with one or more fingers or one or both hands
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Passive touch
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A client is having sciatic like pains, which procedures would best alleviate these symptoms
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Nerve compression at the junction of the sacrum and ilium, as well as over the sciatic nerve
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A client is complaining of constipation. Which area would you perforom reflex stroking on
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Abdominal
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An inflammatory disease of the joints that has granulated deposits is
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Gouty Arthritis
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Which procedure produces a muscel contraction as a result of the formation of a reflex arc through the spinal cord
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Reflex stroking
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What is the effect of heat
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Increased circulation
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If a client ask you to massage his prostate, you would say
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I'm not licensed to do that kind of work
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According to the massage Scope of Practice, the massage therapist may do which of the following
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Take a written or verbal inquiry to ascertain if massage is advisable
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Univerasal percaustions, as defined by the Center for disease control is designed to prevent transmission of
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Bloodborne pathogens |
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Which is the common level of cleaing used by the massage therapist
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Sanitation
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Universal percautions apply to urine, sweat, tears, vomitus, and saliva only when
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They contain visible blood
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Hands and other skin surfaces should be disinfected if contaminated with
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Body fluids requiring universal percautions
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The preferred, medium level sanitation solution for cleaining up spills of the body fluid is
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1 part bleach to 9 parts water
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If a comtaminated substance comes into contact with your skin, what would be recommended
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Wash immediately with soap and water and a 10% bleach solution
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Which type of friction is done in the direction of the arterial flow
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Centrifugal friction
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The limb is grasped by both hands which make an alternate wringing or twisting motion from distal to proximal
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Circular friciton
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Mobilization of soft tissue next to a joint is best accomplished by
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Kneading
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A client has been suffering from insomnia what would you do
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Decrease vascular activity by applying centrifugal friction
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When the lymph spaces and channels lymphatic system are affected
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The immune system is affected
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The whole or part of a hand ismoved over the surface with considerable pressure
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Friction
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Your client is lying supine you take her arm and lay it over her stomach. The movement of her arm is
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Medial rotation
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The skin is simultaneously compressed between the thumb and finger and lifted from the underlying bone or muscle
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Superficial kneading
Fulling Pinching |
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What is the list of deep kneading
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Petrissage
Rolling Wringing Chucking Palmar Fist Digital |
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The parts should be squeezed or compressed in the hand, lifted from the bone or underlying tissues, and rolled and stretchedin an upward direction or from the point of insertion
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Petrissage
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Is it true or false that you only use gloves with an infected HIV client or Dried blood is not Contagious
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False
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If you're massaging the manubrium where are you massaging
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Sternum (manubrium is the top part of the sternum)
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A client arrives at your office and is very cold. His car heater is not working and it is 13 degrees out. What procedure would you use
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Friction
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Moving the fluid on veins and lymph spaces and channels is what type of physiological effect
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Mechanical
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In performing centripetal friction of the thigh above an injures knees as a treatment, this is what type of effect
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Derivative
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Your client comes in the office showing signs of jaundice, yellowed skin, yellowed whites of the eyes. What do you need to know before you massage
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The underlying cause of the jaundice
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A client has been complaining that she has been ill frequently over the past few months. What procedure would you use to boost her immune system
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Friction alternated with kneading
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To cool down a runner whose body temperature is elevated you should use
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Friction
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This procedure stimulates all functions of the skin and addresses dry skin, hidebound skin, dropsy, and edema, among others
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Fullling
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If a client comes in with impingement of the brachial plexus, what muscle would you massage
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Subclavius
Pectoralis Minor Scalenes |
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According to Kellogg, which of the follwoing procedures is the best for producing change in the human body:
Touch Stroking Friction Kneading |
Kneading
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Under the scope of Practice according to Ohio law
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Massage therapists may not diagnose a person's condition and prescribe a course of treatment
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One or both palms move slowly over the area, a fine trembling movement being executed at the same time
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Superficial vibration
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What can you do immediately after a sprain of the ankle
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Derivative friction on the thigh
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If a person has a vascular headache you would not do what procedure
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Cetrifugal friction of the neck
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The following is a form of percussion in which the tips of the fingers alone are used
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Tapping
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Effleurate is most like
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Stroking
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The best effect will be obtained by placing one finger upon the motor point, pressing firmly on the nerve, and then tapping the finger with the fingers of the other hand
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Point percussion
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With the percussive technique, the ulnar border of the hand is used chiefly on the chest, spine, and head, although it can be used anywhere
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Hacking
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A client reports that, after carrying a heavy shoulder bag through the airport, she is experiencing neck and shoulder pain. What muscle would be affected
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Levator scapula
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Which procedure is best for producing reflexive effects
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Stroking
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Which type of joint movement affects, almost solely, the joints, having only a very small effect on the muscles
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Passive
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When applying joint movements, boththe client and the therapist take equal part int he movement. Either may initate the movement, alothough the client usually does. This procedure acts vigourously on both joints and muscles
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Resistive
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Massage Therapist are not legally bound to follow
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AMTA Scope of Practice
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Is it illegal for an LMT to work on Levator Ani
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Yes it is illegal
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Is it true the joint movement causes increase circulation in blood and lymph channels
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No it is not true
It produces strong derivative effects It improves joint nurtrition It affects circulation of lymph, but not of blood |
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A client has relaxed enough to doze of during the first part of the massage. He is now drowsily awake, and you want to make sure he is stimulated enough so that he won't doze off again while driving home. What proceudre would be best to use near the end of the massage
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Lateral vibration
Hacking Clapping Shaking |
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Resistive joint movement
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use just enough resistance to engange the muscle
It works strongly on muscles and joints Follow the noraml movement of the joint |
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For vibration, what would be a contraindications
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Marked hyperaesthesia
Inflammation or fever Morbid growths and suppurations |
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A client has unresolved pneumonia kellogg says to use
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hacking of the chest
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A client complains of constipation, which procedure would you use
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Abdominal reflex stroking along the mammary lines, fist kneading along the course of the colon, and percussion over the abdomen
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The AMTA code of Ethics is nor enforceable by law in the state of Ohio is this true regarding the Code of Ethics of Massage Therapist as adopted by the State Medical Boardlof Ohio
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No
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What procedure is the slowest
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Fist kneading
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The primary importance of sanitation is
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To prevent the spread of contagious diseases
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What produces the most sedative effects
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passive touch
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What is the effect of not using llubricant with friction
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Increase reflexive effects
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What is true of hand washing when considered as the single most effective deterrent to disease
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Proper hand washing includes both hands and foremarms
Should be done after blowing the nose, coughing in the hands, or using the toilet Should be done both before and after each massage |
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IN massage, vasconstriciton and vasodilation of blood vessels is due to
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Reflexive effects
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Improvement in the functioning of the digetive system is what physiological effect
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Metabolic
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Light stroking on the mammary line causes contraction of the abdominal muscles, this is what type of physiological effect
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Reflexive
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This type of physiological effect involves nerve signal traveling from the periphery to the spinal cord, and then to muscles and or internal organs
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Reflexive
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What procedure of massage best directs oxygen and nutrients to the muscles
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Kneading
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What would not be true of the effects on the nervous system
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Only a few massage procedures produce reflex effects
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What procedure is most like skin rolling
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Superficial kneading
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What would not be true of the effects of massage on the muscular system
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Secondary fatigue can be caused only by over exercise
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What procedures would best help alleviate muscle fatigue
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Friction
Kneading Friction |
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What would not be true of the effects of massage on the skeletal system
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Massage encourages muscle development, but not bone development
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What would not be true of the effects of massage on circulation
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Massage accelerates the heartbeat as mluch as exercise does
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To affect the portal circulation, kellogg recommends
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Massage of the legs
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To affect pulmonary circulation, kellogg recommends
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Massage of the arms and legs
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Muscles are the furnaces of the body; heat is produced there; especailly with
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Kneading
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For good body heat regulation, heat need to be eliminated as well as created. What procedure would best accomplish this elimination
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Friction
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What would be illegal
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Dr. Adams for every client you send to me, I'll give you a free massage
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What would not be true of the effects of massage on digestion
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Massage keeps the alimentary mass in the stomach longer
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What would not be used for massage
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Mentholated liniment
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If a person receives massage regularly, what effect would this have on his immune systme
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The immune system could be permanently boosted
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A client has light chest pains, is short of breathe, and starts to sweat. What should you do
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Stop the massage and call 911
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What is concerned with lack of muscular contraction
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Locomotor ataxia
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Where is cicular friction done
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On the extremitites
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Massage as a therapeutic means is a result of the
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Influence on circulation
Direct and indirect influence on the nerves Modifying influence on assimilation and dissimilation |
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What will be a breach confidentiality
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Everything must be included in the clients's written record
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Massage in diabetes
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Is contraindicated if the diabetes has complications
Should not be done if the vascular system is compromised Burns blood sugar, and could possibly result in insulin shock |
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Bright's disease is a disease of the
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Kidneys
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What muscle would you massage for shin splints
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Tibialis anterior
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Raynauds Disease is due to repetitive stress can be relieved best by
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Local massage of the hands
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If your client is taking Warfarin, what should you keep in mind
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It's a blood thinner
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Friction has the least effect on which circulation
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Visceral
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Your client experiences heelp pain, a possible cause is
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Plantar facitits
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Carpal tunnel syndrome is due to oversue of muscles of the
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Wrist
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A client has been ill and bed ridden for about 6 weeks. He is well now but complains of extreme weakness. You would do
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Friction and petrissage to address muscular atrophy
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What would not be true of R.I.C.E method as it applies to first aid in treatment of an injury
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It temporarily increases the secondary injury to tissues
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A golfer has pain when rotating or bending to the side. What muscles would you address
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Multifidi
Rotatores |
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A client is experiencing a muscle spasminthe quadriceps. What would you do
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Place a hot compress on the muscle spasm
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What would not be true of ice application
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It increases the metabolism, thus increasing the possibility of secondary injury
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What is not grounds for discipline by the state Medical Board
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Sharing patient information and records with the State Medcial Board during an investigation
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