Manipulations & Techniques

Question 1

What can be categorized in these 5 mechanical forces? Compressive, tension, bending, shear and torsion?

Answer 1

Tissue load/stresses

Question 2

What kind of tissue load combines compressive and tension stress in order to increase connective tissue pliability as well as affect proprioceptors in tendons and muscle belly?

Answer 2

Bending stress

Question 3

What kind of tissue load occurs when two structures are pressed together?

Answer 3

Compressive

Question 4

What kind of tissue stress affects local circulation, sensory & autonomic nerve stimulation, nerurochemicals, and connective tissue pliability?

Answer 4

Compressive

Question 5

What kind of tissue load occurs when mechanical applied force causes tissues to slide against other tissues?

Answer 5

Shear

Question 6

What kind of stress increases connective tissue pliability as well as create therapeutic inflammation and can also be classified as friction?

Answer 6

Shear

Question 7

What kind of stress occurs when two ends of a structure are pulled in opposite directions?

Answer 7

Tension

Question 8

What is it when a muscle experiences excess contraction from increased motor tone or increase in muscle tone?

Answer 8

Tense muscle sensation, but not tension stress

Question 9

What is motor tone?

Answer 9

Nerve firings

Question 10

What is muscle tone?

Answer 10

Increase in tissue density caused by fluid accumulation and connective tissue changes.

Question 11

What kind of tissue load occurs when tissues are twisted?

Answer 11

Torsion

Question 12

What kind of massage technique causes torsion stress with the goal of targeting connective tissue changes and fluid movement?

Answer 12

Kneading

Question 13

During massage treatment, how long does initial sympathetic response take to reverse itself?

Answer 13

15-30 mins

Question 14

What does direct pressure, ischemic compression and inhibitory pressure mean?

Answer 14

Specific compression to a pinpointed area

Question 15

What direction does pressure go when performing a compression?

Answer 15

downward

Question 16

What technique is ideal when initialing beginning a massage, when you are needing to build trust with the client?

Answer 16

Holding/static/resting

Question 17

What kind of stress does gliding produce?

Answer 17

Compression, tension and bending

Question 18

What kind of stress does kneading produce?

Answer 18

bending, shear and torsion stress (technically all)

Question 19

What are flat sheets of superficial connective tissue called?

Answer 19

Apneurosis

Question 20

If tissue will not lift, due to either excessive edema, heavy fat layer, scarring that extends deeply, or thickened areas of excessive tissue, what technique should be used in an attempt to soften the tissue?

Answer 20

Compression or gliding

Question 21

What is the name for the pad at the base of the thumb?

Answer 21

Thenar eminence

Question 22

Which massage technique creates therapeutic inflammation which could trigger tissue remodeling and should not be used over acute injury or fresh scars?

Answer 22

Friction

Question 23

What is the application of pulling force to stretch soft tissue and increase space in the joint?

Answer 23

Traction