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CH 6 Flashcards

1
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Condition for which an approach would be beneficial for health enhancement, treatment of a particular disorder, or support if a treatment modality other than massage.

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Indication

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2
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A condition for which an approach could be harmful.

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Contraindication

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A condition that requires the massage therapist to adapt the massage process so that the client’s safety is maintained.

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Caution

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4
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A beneficial alternation in the client’s physical and/or mental state that results from a therapeutic massage process.

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Therapeutic change

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5
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The use of massage methods to support clients who are not able to undergo a a therapeutic change process but who want to live their life to the fullest within an existing set of circumstances.

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Condition management

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6
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Attempts to relieve or reduce the intensity of uncomfortable symptoms, but it does not try to produce a cure.

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Palliative care

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7
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An overall impairment in quality of life.

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Suffering

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8
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The study of disease

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Pathology

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9
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An abrupt shock or injury to the body or psyche; like disease, requires the body to heal.

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Trauma

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Substances prescribed to stimulate or inhibit a body processor replace a chemical in the body.

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Medications

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Optimal functioning with freedom from disease or abnormal process.

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Health

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The in-between state of “not healthy” but also “not sick”/

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Dysfunction

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13
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Defined as maximum conditioning and functioning in a particular action.

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Peak performance

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14
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The relative constancy of body’s internal environment.

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Homeostasis

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15
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A term that describes a condition in which the symptoms develop quickly, last a short time, ad then disappear. (The body recovers its homeostatic balance quickly.)

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Acute

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A term that describes disease that develops slowly and lasts for a long time, sometimes for life. (A normal state of balance may never be restored, and compression develops with reduced adaptive capacity.)

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Chronic

17
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The process of counter-balancing a defect in body structure or function.

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Compensation

18
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Can be transmitted from one person to another.

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Communicable diseases

19
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Objective abnormalities that can be seen or measured by someone other than the patient.

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Signs

20
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The subjective abnormalities felt only by the patient.

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Symptoms

21
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A group of different signs and symptoms, usually arising from a common cause.

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Syndrome

22
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Describes the way the body mobilizes different defense mechanisms when threatened by harmful stimuli (actual or perceived.)

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General adaption syndrome (GAS)

23
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A combination of processes that attempts to minimize injury to tissues and promote healing, thus maintaining homeostasis.

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Inflammatory response

24
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Founded in the concept of the body-self. Pain is a part of a multi-system response to a perceived threat. There are many inputs to the brain that can trigger the pain neuromatrix including: movement, thoughts, emotions, touch, memories, fear, and sights. These stimuli can trigger a pain response due to a perceived threat.

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Neuromatrix theory of pain

25
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When pain is felt in a surface area far from the stimulated organ.

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Referred pain

26
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Remain localized within the tissue from which they arise and usually grow very slowly.

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Benign tumors

27
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Tend to spread to other regions of the body.

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Malignant tumors (cancer)

28
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The migration of cancer

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Metastasis

29
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Steady contraction and muscles, which causes ischemia and stimulates pain receptors in muscles. The pain, in turn, initiates more spasms.

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Pain-spasm-cycle

30
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Conditions that involve pathologic pressure on nerves and vessels; the two types of impingement are compression and entrapment.

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Impingement syndrome

31
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The interaction of mediation and massage to stimulate the same process or effects.

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Synergistic

32
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When massage produces the opposite effect sought.

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Antagonistic

33
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An area where it is possible to do damage with the application of mechanical force.

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Endangerment site/ Cautionary site

34
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A method by which a client send to a health care professional for diagnosis and treatment of a disease.

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Referral

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