Basic Terminology Flashcards
Describe Transverse/Horizontal plane
A plane passing horizontally through the body, dividing it into superior and inferior portions.
Describe Midsagittal/Median plane
A plane passing longitudinally through the body from front to back, diving the body into equal right and left portions
Describe Bogginess
Tissue texture abnormality characterized by a palpable sense of sponginess as a result of congestion due to increased fluid.
What is contraction
Shortening or reduction in size
Define diagnosis
The art of distinguishing one disease from another.
The use of scientific and skillful methods to establish the cause and nature of a person’s illness.
What is distortion (in the body)
Any mechanical departure from ideal or normal symmetry
Define Lesion
Any pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or function
Define misalignment
not in proper alignment
Describe myofascial trigger point
A hyperirritable spot;
usually in a taut band of skeletal muscle or fascia;
painful on compression
Name the types of myofascial trigger points
Active
Latent
Primary
Associated
Satellite
Secondary
Define palpation and its purpose
The act of feeling with the hands.
Used to determine the shape, size, consistency, position, inherent mobility, and health of tissue.
Define static palpation
Palpation of somatic structures in a neutral non-moving position
Define palpatory diagnosis
Process of palpating a patient to evaluate the neuromusculoskeletal and visceral systems
Define referred pain
Pain felt in a part other than that in which the pain is produced or situated
Pain felt in a part away from the source of the pain.
Define ropiness
Tissue texture abnormality characterized by a cord or stringy-like feeling.
Define rotation
Motion of the body around an axis
Define subluxation
Aberrant relationship between two adjacent articular structures
May have functional or pathological sequelae (aftereffect of a disease, condition, or injury) causing an alteration in the biomechanical/neurophysiological reflections of these articular structures, their proximal structures, and/or body systems that may be directly or indirectly affected by them.
