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The practice of Swedish massage includes the combined use of joint mobilization and stretches to help clients restore and maintain Health and Pain free movements. Collectively these movements are historically called |
Swedish gymnastics |
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What is manual manipulation of soft tissue of the Body for purposes of establishing and maintaining good health and promoting Wellness |
Massage therapy |
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What is defined as Consciously sought goal and defines the purpose of the massage session |
Intention |
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What is defined as holding or resting the weight of the hands on the client's skin. |
Touch |
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What is defined as the application of manual forces to the body surface |
Pressure |
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Most numeric pain skills use a one to ten point system with 1 representing what? |
No pain |
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On the Pain Scale 1 to 10 what number should you never exceed |
7 |
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The distance a massage technique travels over the body is called |
Excursion |
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These regularity or patterning of massage techniques as they are applied to the client's body is called |
Rhythm |
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The rate at which massage techniques can be applied to the body and how rapidly or slowly the therapist hands are moving is called |
Speed |
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What is referred to uninterrupted flow of techniques and unbroken tension from one technique to the next |
Continuity |
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The length of time that passes during activity is called |
Duration |
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A particular order in which events follow each other is called |
Sequence |
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What is it called when you apply gliding movements that follow the Contours of the body |
Effleurage |
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The translation of effleurage is |
To flow To Glide |
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What is another name for the lean and drag technique |
Deep effleurage |
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Woodworking on the upper and lower extremities deep pressure is generally applied in what direction |
Centripetally |
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What direction is centripetal |
Towards the heart |
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This one handed effleurage technique is also known as |
Ironing |
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The use of both hands gliding simultaneously on the skin is called |
Two handed effleurage |
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Light pressure applied with the weight of the fingers or hands as they glide down the body is called |
Nurse stroke |
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Another name for nerve stroke |
Feathering |
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What is the rhythmic lifting, compressing, and releasing soft tissue of the body such as Skin and muscle called |
Petrissage |
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The literal translation of petrissage is |
To mash or knead |
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This type of effleurage is called |
Two handed heart effleurage |
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What massage technique is commonly used to reduce adhesions between tissue layers and minimize Scar Tissue formation |
Skin rolling |
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What massage technique is a variation of two handed petrissage that is used to address adhesions and superficial fascia |
Skin rolling |
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This picture is showing what massage technique |
Two handed petrissage In that photo that form of petrissage is called "ocean waves" |
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This picture is example of |
Skin rolling |
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What is a technique in which one body surface is pressed over another while maintaining pressure and movement in all directions |
Friction |
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This technique is called |
Skin rolling By lifting it between fingers of one hand and the web to another |
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What are the two types of friction |
Superficial and deep |
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What type of friction is when heat is created by the therapist skin Gliding Over the client's skin |
Superficial friction |
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What type of friction is when heat is created by the clients on skin Gliding Over underlying tissue |
Deep friction |
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Rolling and ringing are types of what kind of friction |
Superficial friction |
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Cross fiber, chucking and circular are what type of friction |
Deep friction |
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What is friction most often used for |
Increase local circulation |
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This is what type of superficial friction |
Superficial warming fiction |
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Wringing friction is when you |
Move your hands back and forth in opposite directions quickly |
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Cross fiber friction is when you |
Move the skin back and forth over the treated fibers at a right angle or perpendicular to the tissue |
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Cross fiber friction is precise in penetrating friction popularized by |
Dr. James Cyriax |
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Cross fiber friction is also known as |
Deep transverse friction |
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chucking friction is when you |
Move the skin back and forth parallel to the treated fibers |
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This is an example of what type of deep friction |
Chucking friction |
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What is circular friction |
It's when you Move the skin over the treatment area in circular Direction |
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This is an example of what type of friction |
Circular friction |
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What is a non gliding massage technique |
Compression |
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What are the two types of compression |
Sustained and rhythmic |
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What is sustained compression |
Maintains pressure for period of time |
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What is rhythmic compression |
Quickly compressing and releasing pressure repeatedly |
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What is a repetitive striking massage technique |
Tapotement |
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What massage techniques would you use to loosen phlegm from the lungs |
Tapotement |
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What type of tapotement is use of fingertips of one or both hands to strike the skin alternatively or simultaneously |
Tapping |
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What type of tapotement uses the tips of several fingers and thumbs to strike, grass, lift, and release the skin |
Pincement |
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What type of tapotement is when you use the owner edge of one or both hands to strike the skin |
Hacking |
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What type of tapotement is when you use the edges of cup hands to strike the skin |
Cupping |
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What type of tapotement is when you use the sides of your fist to strike the skin |
Pounding |
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What type of tapotement when you use and the open palm of a downward-facing hand to strike the skin |
Clapping |
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Type of typo meant when you lay a relaxed hand, Palm down, over your clients skin in straight the back of this hand with the other held in a loose fist |
Diffused |
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Shaking, trembling, or rocking is what massage technique |
Vibration |
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This is what type of tapotement |
Diffused |
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What is this massage technique called when you grasp the muscle, the joint, or the extremity and Shake vigorously |
Jostling |
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What is this massage technique called when you push and release the client's body gently and rhythmically |
Rocking |
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What is an area called, where deep vigorous techniques and prolong deep pressure should be cautiously applied or avoided altogether because the area is also contains superficial blood vessels and or nerves |
Cautionary sites |
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Moving a joint through its normal range of motion is called |
Joint mobilization |
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This term is the range, usually expressed in degrees of a circle, through which bones of a joint can move or be moved |
Range of motion |
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Technique that lengthens or elongated soft tissue |
Stretching |
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Who is the father of orthopedic medicine |
James cyriax |
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What is it called when the client relaxes and is passive while the therapist performs the movements of joint mobilization or stretching |
Passive range of motion |
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What is it called when the client performs The Joint mobilization or stretch once it is described or demonstrated by the therapist |
Active range of motion |
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What is it called when the client actively performs The Joint mobilization or stretch while the therapist assists and physically guides the movement in the same direction the client is moving |
Active assisted movements |
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What is it called when the client actively performs The Joint mobilization or straps while the therapist applies resistance to the clients movements |
Active resisted movements |
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What is the barrier felt by the therapist at the end of available passive range of motion |
End feel |
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What is hard end feel |
When the barrier is hard tissue such as bone |
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What is soft end feel |
When the barrier is compression of soft tissue |
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What is firm end feel |
When the barrier to movement such as tendons, ligaments, and Joint capsules, offer resistance as they lengthen. |
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What is empty end feel |
Occurs when normal motion is interrupted by clients pain before the therapist encounter structural resistance to passive movement |
