Tapotement

Question 1

What stance do you use for tapotement?

Answer 1

Horse stance

Question 2

What is tapotement?

Answer 2

technique that uses a series of alternating, rapid, rhythmic, percussive strikes to the body

Question 3

_______ determines whether tapotement is sedative or stimulatory.

Answer 3

Duration!
over 30sec in 1 area can make this tech feel sedative, moving around the body quickly without staying in any one area too long makes it more stimulatory

Question 4

List the tapotement techniques

Answer 4

1. Pinchement
2. F tip tapping (piano playing)
3. F tip percussion (bongo drums)
4. Cupping (feel the air, good for removing mucus) / Clapping
5. Ulnar hacking (loose & firm)
6. Pounding (ulnar border, in a fist)
7. Beating/knuckle percussion

Question 5

What techniques should NOT be used over the gluteals?

Answer 5

anything that feels like pinching/caressing/slapping
pinchement
ftip tapping
ftip percussion
clapping/cupping

Question 6

T/F:

tapotement can be done over the drape

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Where is the cupping technique often used? why?

Answer 7

Over the ribcage, posteriorly. To dislodge mucus/help alleviate chest congestion

Question 8

What tapotement techniques are considered SUPERFICIAL?

Answer 8

1. Pinchement
2. F tip tapping (piano playing)
3. F tip percussion (bongo drums)
4. Cupping (feel the air, good for removing mucus) / Clapping

Question 9

What tapotement techniques are considered DEEP?

Answer 9

pounding & beating (knuckle percussion)

Question 10

Indications for tapotement

Answer 10

dislodge mucus
inefficient circulation
fatigue (muscle or mental)
hypertoned musculature
increase the tone in a hypertonus muscles
reflexively stimulated peristalsis (digestion)

Question 11

Precautions/Contraindication for tapotement

Answer 11

all local & general CIs
recently healed/healing wounds
acute inflammatory areas
varicose veins
spastic paralysis (neurological)
neurological anomalies 
acute painful conditions
unstable cardiac conditions
areas of known disc herniation
abdomen during pregnancy

Question 12

Precautions/Contraindication for DEEP tapotement

Answer 12

over kidneys or abdomen
bony structures/prominences
lumbar & gluteal regions during heavy menstruation or pregnancy

Question 13

Bongo drums =

Answer 13

fingertip percussion

Question 14

piano playing =

Answer 14

fingertip tapping

Question 15

duck kisses =

Answer 15

pinchement