CH 6 Flashcards
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.
Indication
A condition for which an approach could be harmful.
Contraindication
A condition that requires the massage therapist to adapt the massage process so that the client’s safety is maintained.
Caution
A beneficial alternation in the client’s physical and/or mental state that results from a therapeutic massage process.
Therapeutic change
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.
Condition management
Attempts to relieve or reduce the intensity of uncomfortable symptoms, but it does not try to produce a cure.
Palliative care
An overall impairment in quality of life.
Suffering
The study of disease
Pathology
An abrupt shock or injury to the body or psyche; like disease, requires the body to heal.
Trauma
Substances prescribed to stimulate or inhibit a body processor replace a chemical in the body.
Medications
Optimal functioning with freedom from disease or abnormal process.
Health
The in-between state of “not healthy” but also “not sick”/
Dysfunction
Defined as maximum conditioning and functioning in a particular action.
Peak performance
The relative constancy of body’s internal environment.
Homeostasis
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.)
Acute
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.)
Chronic
The process of counter-balancing a defect in body structure or function.
Compensation
Can be transmitted from one person to another.
Communicable diseases
Objective abnormalities that can be seen or measured by someone other than the patient.
Signs
The subjective abnormalities felt only by the patient.
Symptoms
A group of different signs and symptoms, usually arising from a common cause.
Syndrome
Describes the way the body mobilizes different defense mechanisms when threatened by harmful stimuli (actual or perceived.)
General adaption syndrome (GAS)
A combination of processes that attempts to minimize injury to tissues and promote healing, thus maintaining homeostasis.
Inflammatory response
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.
Neuromatrix theory of pain
When pain is felt in a surface area far from the stimulated organ.
Referred pain
Remain localized within the tissue from which they arise and usually grow very slowly.
Benign tumors
Tend to spread to other regions of the body.
Malignant tumors (cancer)
The migration of cancer
Metastasis
Steady contraction and muscles, which causes ischemia and stimulates pain receptors in muscles. The pain, in turn, initiates more spasms.
Pain-spasm-cycle
Conditions that involve pathologic pressure on nerves and vessels; the two types of impingement are compression and entrapment.
Impingement syndrome
The interaction of mediation and massage to stimulate the same process or effects.
Synergistic
When massage produces the opposite effect sought.
Antagonistic
An area where it is possible to do damage with the application of mechanical force.
Endangerment site/ Cautionary site
A method by which a client send to a health care professional for diagnosis and treatment of a disease.
Referral
