Terminology Flashcards
Activities and procedures that can be performed legally buy members of a licensed profession
Scope of Practice
Operating principles, and behavioral guidelines that members of a profession are expected to uphold.
Code of ethics
A legal responsibility to put the need of the client first
Fiduciary Responsibility
Act of safeguarding, entrusted information
Confidentiality
Sharing information such as thoughts , feelings and personal history
Disclosure
Guidelines, rules, and limits that we create in relationships
Boundaries
Relating to the main internal organs, especially near the core of the body
Viscera
Bodywork in which the intention is to work with our balance energy
Energy work
Manipulating soft tissues of one area of the body to reflect changes in another area of the body
Reflexology with regards to your Scope of Practice
cancer treatment perform using radioactive material
Radiation therapy
An imbalance of power in a professional relationship, with clients and vulnerable position
Power differential
Client transfer of past feelings, conflict, and attitude into present relationships, situation, and circumstances
Transference
Therapist transfer a pass feelings, conflicts an attitudes onto the client
Countertransference
The overlapping of two or more responsibility/rolls in a relationship with another
Dual roles
Appearing in a way that would be viewed as possessing professional qualities and behaviors such as reliable, competent, trustworthy and polish
Professional Demeanor
Standard by which behaviors and character traits are judge is right or wrong
Morals
Respect in the relationship, sadness of someone as a whole person, acceptance is not necessarily mean agreement. It means value in all thoughts, feelings, and beliefs without judgment.
UPR
the desire to understand what another person is experiencing without mistaking it for your own experience?
Empathy
Value in all thoughts, feelings, and police without judgement
Acceptance
Focused attention, give us a present moments
Mindfulness
Being client centered and focusEd
Presence
Cognitive and social understanding of the basic purpose process in value of research
Research literacy
A problem-solving approach to massage practice day, integrates 1. a systemic search for, critical appraisal of, and synthesis of relevant and best research 2. one’s own clinical expertise and 3. patient preferences and values in order to achieve desire. Patient goals.
Evidence informed massage practice
A single case in includes discussions of the participants health, history, the intervention used an outcome
Case study/ report
Summary of the study
Abstract
The process of analyzing the data,
Aligning it with the research question and then draw conclusions
Data analysis
Exaggerative stress
Anxiety
Massage would be beneficial for the client
Indication
A group of disorders that involve negative changes in emotional state
Depression
Nociceptive pain stimuli travel on smaller slower nerves. Non-nociceptive sensory stimuli travel faster to the cord and basically close the information gate
Gate theory
Self perpetrating cycle of muscle spasms, increased, neural input, and pain
Pain cycle
The resulting consequence on the way, something works in the body. It happens as a result of the mechanical effects. The resulting consequence on the mental and or emotional state of someone.
Physiological effect
Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual potential tissue damage
Pain
A division of the autonomic nervous system that controls energy conservation .
Parasympathetic nervous system
An additional result of an action, that is not the main intended effect
Secondary effect
Mind and experience, if it’s the way to body feels physically
Somatic effect
Response of body to any Daman place on it, stress can be emotional, mental, physical, or chemical, all of which require a response from body
Stress
A reflective muscle contraction in response to muscle strength, stimuli
Stretch reflex
A referral response to stimulus of a tendon
Tendon reflex
Sheets of fibrous tissue envelope in the body beneath the skin, and a closing in compartmentalizing muscle, tissue layers and muscle groups
Fascia
Pertains to the system of vessels and file with drainage of body fluids
Lymphatic
Relating to a body system that is involved in digestion( mouth to rectum)
Digestive
Relating to bones
Skeletal
The bodies, master communication and regulation system, the nervous system detects stimuli inside and outside the body interpreted, determines a response, and then executes a response by initiating changes and muscles and glands
Nervous
The system includes the skin , and it’s appendages such as hair, Nails, and glands. It is the largest and heaviest organ system. Making up 7% of the body’s weight
Integumentary
A body system who’s important functions are hormone production and secretion, regulation of metabolism, stress adaption, chemical composition, and fluid, volume regulation, and reproductive process regulation.
Endocrine
The range usually expressed in degrees, through which a joint can move or be moved
Range of motion
The quality of resistance felt by the evaluator at the end of passive range of motion
End feel
A situation that requires a Therapist to modify techniques are refrain from using them to avoid possible harm
Contraindication
An area in which massage must be avoided because it is injured or inflamed, is part of a disease process, or has a medical device.
Local contraindication
Situation in which massage should be postponed
Absolute contraindication
Inflammation, contain to a specific area and characterized by swelling, heat, a loss of function, redness, and pain
Acute inflammation
A condition that results from continuous body movements that happen over an extended period of time, and may lead to degeneration diseases
Chronic/repetitive motion syndrome
Drugs that change tissue response
Anti-inflammatory medication
Just at work to prevent the formation of new clients by acting on clotting factors. There is a risk for bruising with anticoagulant use.
Anticoagulant medicationS
Drugs that hinder or kill susceptible bacteria. Nausea is a possible side effect to watch for with antibiotic use.
Antibiotic medication
Drugs that prolong the availability of various types of neurotransmitters in synapses in the brain
Antidepressant medicationS
Muscle relaxant medication’s are drugs they can add on the brain, the spinal cord, or in a muscle tissue. The drugs interfere with muscle protection reflexes. There is a significant risk of over treatment with deep tissue, work, ROM exercises, or stretching.
The amount of pressure it started by blood on vessel walls as the left ventricle of the heart contracts and relaxes
Blood pressure
Areas of bone that Petru visibly ordering palpation of the area of the body
Bony prominences
A group of disease is characterized by chronic elevated blood glucose levels and disturbances in protein, fat, and carbohydrate metabolism
Diabetes
A local or generalized condition in which body tissues contain excessive amount of fluid
Edema
People who are vulnerable with physical or emotional limits
Special populations
Altered immunological response otherwise harmless substances
Allergies
It is generally recommended and important to have a warm environment to better facilitate relaxation for the client
Arising from and directed against the individual tissues
A stage of injury or infection that is short term and severe
Acute
Having low intensity, lasting a long time refers to a disease or disorder
Chronic
A cleansing agent that helps prevent the growth of disease causing agents when you use
Anti-septic
Minimum infection control measures used in healthcare settings, regardless of suspected or confirmed Infection status of client.
Standard precautions
The transference of a micro organisms, such as bacteria from one source to another
Cross contamination
Biologic agents capable of causing infectious disease
Pathogens
Showing growth of abnormal cells that have uncontrolled cell division, lack, programmed cell, death, and can accumulate into masses, are tumors
Cancerous
Cancerous, harmful
Malignant
Simplest form of animal life and causes protozoal diseases
Protozoa
A short, acute infection, and it usually causes no long lasting damage. One exposure creates lifelong immunity.
Hepatitis A
A viral attack that is spread through contact with intimate fluids and causes long-term infections with subtle symptoms.
Hepatitis B
A viral attack that damages the liver so slowly that symptoms may not be available until the decades after exposure
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis A, B, and C are all viral attacks against liver cells
Evaluation of a individuals, health status, stress, or pain levels, levels of function, pre-and post treatment and presence of possible massage contraindications.
Assessment
An essential component of health assessment, and is used to establish or maintain rapport.
Client interview
A health questionnaire which encompasses a variety of information such as the clients personal and contact information, health and medical information and massage information as past experiences and preferences
Intake forms
Disease transmission through a vector to spread infectious agents between two or more host; most vector borne disease are transmission can be classified as food borne, waterborne, or airborne
Vector transmission
Disease transmission through a common vehicle or source , such as food, water , air and in some cases, blood distributed by transfusion service
Vehicle transmission
The relationship between the bones and joints the internal and external forces that act upon them to either make us move or stabilize static postures. How the muscles behave
Biomechanics
Muscles causing specific or desired movement
Agonist
Muscles that lengthen while prime movers and their synergistic contract and shorten to produce the desired action
Antagonist
A muscle that supports the prime mover
Synergist
A muscle that shortens while generating force
Concentric
Muscle that lengthens while generating force
Eccentric contraction
Tendency of bodies internal environment to remain relatively constant with narrow range of change
Homeostasis
1.pain, 2.tense, spasm, or contracted muscle, 3.decrease in blood flow, 4. buildup of metabolic waste
Pain cycle
The application of gliding movements that follow the contours of the body.
Effleurage can provide overall continuity to the session, lower heart rate and systolic blood pressure, reduce stress levels, improve health related quality of life immediately after massage, increase skin and intramuscular temperature.
Involves compression, lifting, or decompression, and then release in soft tissues, searches skin and muscle. Also called kneading.
Petrissage may reduce muscle stiffness, decreased lower, limb, for tea, improve, pilling performance, reduce stress levels short term
Involves rubbing one body surface against another, while, maintaining a constant and equal pressure in all directions.
Friction. Friction can be effective in reducing tenderness of myofascial trigger points in the upper trapezius muscle, generate heat to the area.
Friction technique in which the therapist would place the thumb or fingertips on treatment area and compress, then move the clients skin back-and-forth over to treated fibers at right angles are perpendicular to the tissue fibers
Cross-fiber friction
A non-gliding technique of pressure application.
Compression
A repetitive striking motion variations, are tapping, pants meant, hacking, cooking, pounding and clapping.
Tapotement. activates muscle spindle fibers and loosens up phlegm and mucus.
A shaking or trembling motion.
Vibration. Can use during an event massage for helping, stimulating the soft tissues, or near the beginning of a session to help bring more circulation into an area that appears ischemic.
A massage stroke/technique that uses light pressure applied with the weight of the fingers or hands as they glide down the body.
Nerve stroke
Type of local contraindications that contain tissues, such as nerves, blood vessels, and glands are vulnerable to harm from pressure
Cautionary sites/ Endangerment sites
The range usually expressed in degrees, through which a joint can move or be moved.
ROM
The movement of articulating surfaces, with the intention to improve flexibility to the muscles and improve range of motion of the joint.
Joint mobilization and therapeutic face and uses .
A form of joint mobilization
PNF stretching, which is a set of stretching with active and passive ROM to be performed.
Movement produced by external forces with no voluntary muscle contraction on the clients in.
Passive movementS
Movement produced by voluntary muscle contraction on the clients end.
Active movements
Client actively performs joint mobilization or stretch while therapist provides resistance to clients movement.
Active Resisted movements
A manual method that uses skin stretching techniques to release, restricted fascia.
Myofascial release
Therapy Focused on treating/preventing soft tissue pain and limited joint movement.
Myotherapy
A noninvasive form of bodywork that uses gentle movements and body positions to help change stress and pain patterns
Othiobionomy
Related to musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic massage focuses on rehab of orthopedic condition, such as sports injury by using manipulation and movement of soft tissue with the goal of reducing pain and dysfunction.
Orthopedic
A low impact, body, maintenance and rehab program designed to help strengthen muscles, open joints and release tension and result in improve posture, and he’s a movement during daily activities, recreation and sports.
Pilates
Therapy is centered on the human energy field and uses touch, verbal interaction, nutrition, and exercise to seek to balance, and restore, the natural flow of energy from the universe and into the body through the chakras
Polarity
A series of 10 treatments over 10 weeks that includes soft tissue manipulation and movement education. Focusing on alignment of the body.
Rolfing
