Manipulations & Techniques Flashcards
What can be categorized in these 5 mechanical forces? Compressive, tension, bending, shear and torsion?
Tissue load/stresses
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?
Bending stress
What kind of tissue load occurs when two structures are pressed together?
Compressive
What kind of tissue stress affects local circulation, sensory & autonomic nerve stimulation, nerurochemicals, and connective tissue pliability?
Compressive
What kind of tissue load occurs when mechanical applied force causes tissues to slide against other tissues?
Shear
What kind of stress increases connective tissue pliability as well as create therapeutic inflammation and can also be classified as friction?
Shear
What kind of stress occurs when two ends of a structure are pulled in opposite directions?
Tension
What is it when a muscle experiences excess contraction from increased motor tone or increase in muscle tone?
Tense muscle sensation, but not tension stress
What is motor tone?
Nerve firings
What is muscle tone?
Increase in tissue density caused by fluid accumulation and connective tissue changes.
What kind of tissue load occurs when tissues are twisted?
Torsion
What kind of massage technique causes torsion stress with the goal of targeting connective tissue changes and fluid movement?
Kneading
During massage treatment, how long does initial sympathetic response take to reverse itself?
15-30 mins
What does direct pressure, ischemic compression and inhibitory pressure mean?
Specific compression to a pinpointed area
What direction does pressure go when performing a compression?
downward
What technique is ideal when initialing beginning a massage, when you are needing to build trust with the client?
Holding/static/resting
What kind of stress does gliding produce?
Compression, tension and bending
What kind of stress does kneading produce?
bending, shear and torsion stress (technically all)
What are flat sheets of superficial connective tissue called?
Apneurosis
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?
Compression or gliding
What is the name for the pad at the base of the thumb?
Thenar eminence
Which massage technique creates therapeutic inflammation which could trigger tissue remodeling and should not be used over acute injury or fresh scars?
Friction
What is the application of pulling force to stretch soft tissue and increase space in the joint?
Traction
