Massage Theory Flashcards
True/False
Short term goals that are achieved serve as a benchmark for effectiveness
true
Which of the following would manual massage interventions have a secondary effect on?
edema, strength, trigger points, hypertonicty
strength
Confirming or refuting your clinical hypothesis is done after?
the treatment phase
What is the correct order for clinical decision making process?
Evaluation, TX planning, TX, Discharge
Confirming/refuting your clinical hypothesis is done after?
Objective information gathering
Which stretching stretches would increase muscle length by biasing tensional forces on the contractile elements?
PNF stretching
The most appropriate position to place the shoulder in to increase length of biceps brachii would be
Extend the elbow with the forearm in pronation and then extend the shoulder
if you want to increase hip abduction using reciprocral inhibition which muscle do you have the client contract?
Adductor longus
A person who has been on extended bed rest has a hip contrature that places the hip in a position of lateral rotation. You note in your documentation that your patient has a
hip external rotation contracture
You are asked to do selective stretching with a patient who uses a wheel chair for mobility due to a spinal cord injury. You choose to leave shortness in which of the following muscle groups to optimize function
Low back extensiors
Which of the following is a contradindication to strecthing?
when shortened tissues provide functional stability of a body segment affected by paralysis.
Which type of contractures would you expect to observe after a person has taken a cast off after 6 weeks of immobilization?
Myostatic/periarticular
A client presents with short painful tissue. Which would be the most appropriate type of stretching to use in normalizing tissue length?
Reciprocal inhibition
A client comes to you after experiencing a moderate sprain to their ankle the day before. Upon assessment you note decreased ROM most likely due to edema and
Pseudomyostatic contracture
When applying a stretch, you first feel some resistance at the physiologial barrier and increasingly more so you take up the slack at the elastic barrier: As you move into and maintain the stretch, you gradually feel as though you can move into a greater range using the same force. This describes what mechanical characteristic of connective tissue?
Viscoelastic creep
What is a determinant of stretching
low speed
Which of the following stretching proceedures represents the most effective process to achieve plastic lengthening of soft tissues?
Moving beyond the elastic barrier applying low load force slowly, maintaining end range position for an extended period of time and releasing slowly
The most effective stretch for lats is
Place in supine position, stabilize lateral border of scapula as you flex the shoulder
one line graph represents
viscoelastic creep
E on the graph represents
necking
What is categorized as extrinsic factor contributing to limited ROM
cast immobilization after a fracture
The passive component of muscle that provides the greatest resistance to elongation is?
connective tissue
What does X1 denote?
plastic change in X
If your outcome is to increase GH external rotation using a passive stretch what muscle would you target?
Teres major
To most effectively use the phenomenon of creep in a stretching routine a therapist should perform?
Maintain the constant force (load) as long as the client can reasonably tolerate it
applying muscle approximation technique to a target muscle serves to
inhibit the target muscle
What makes changes to active tone?
fingertip needing
If one of your outcomes is to decrease the amount of passive tone that is created by local fluid within the muscle,… the most effective technique is
MLD
The erector spinae group has several different actions adn plays more than one role… however, it predominantly acts as what type of muscle?
postural
TRue or false
golgi tendon organs when stimulated active to facilitate the target muscle to achieve outcomes of decreasing tone and pain
False
True/False
The outcome of muscle approximation is to indirectly decrease pain in a target muscle by inhibiting it’s tone
True
In which muscle group would you expect to find the highest amount of tone?
Postural
According to the all or nothing rule and the concept of motor neuron; myofibrils… the muscles of the eye would
exhibit greater dexterity due to a low ratio
Origin and insertion technique is an indirect technique that acts to decrease pain by stimulating the
GTO to inhibit the target muscle
True/Flase
Muscle spindles measure tensional forces and because they are in the series with the extrafusal fibres that can also measure rate of movement
False
Which influecne postural control?
base of support and visual referencing
True/False
When palpating to measure the muscular tone provided by passive biochemical contributers, viscoelastic stiffness if caused primarily by connective tissue components
True
sEMG meausres
neural activity
What are two primary muscle proprioceptos?
Muscle spindles and golgi tendon organs
True/False
using specific compression at the musculotendinous junctions compressed the GTO and increases muscle tone
False
When muscle spindles of target muscles are activated they?
concentrically conctract target muscle
What makes a change to the passive tone of muscle?
GTO technique
What makes a change to the passive tone of muscle?
Direct Fascial
