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OK to massage. The massage will be beneficial.
Benefits include: relaxation, increase circulation, rehab, prvent injury etc. |
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Potentially Harmful.
Massage may or may not occurr. |
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| Three Types of Contraindications: |
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1. General avoidance
2. Regional or local avoidance
3. Apply with caution |
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| Examples of General Avoidance (Contrindication): |
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| Systemic Infections: Impetigo, Chicken Pox, Almost all communicable and contageous diseases. FEVER. |
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| Example of Regional or Local Avoidance (Contraindication): |
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| Open wound, hematoma, wart, rash, vericoise veins (protruding) |
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| Example of Apply with Caution (Contraindication): |
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| Need the OK of a heathcare provider. Circulatory, High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease, Medications, Diabetes, Cancer, Lupus. |
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| Describe approaches to care? What is it? |
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Approaches to care are expectations the client comes in with.
It is what the client wants out of the massage; "what's init for me?" |
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There are three approaches to care?
HINT: the last word in the three approaches are the "KEY" |
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1. Therapeutic change
2. Condition management
3. Palliative care |
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What are the attributes and characteristics of Therapeutic Care? (an appraoch to care).
Another way to express this is: What is required by the CLIENT to enact Therapeutic Change? |
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Committment to self care and committment to make a change.
Time. Money. Social Support. Coping Mechanism.
This is the smallest part of our clientele as enacting change is difficult. |
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| Define Condition Management (an approach to care.) |
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It is effective as possible within an existing circumstance.
Ex. Scoliosis-massage is not going to "fix" the scoliosis, but it can manage the main and decline of the conditon.
Often the largest segment of the clientele. |
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| Define "Palliative" Care. |
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| To soothe, comfort or provide relief. |
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| Name some Risk Factors for pathology and disease: |
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| Genetics, age, lifestyle, increased stress, decresed mental activity, low self esteem. |
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| cold, virus, cancer, etc. |
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| Tissue damage, cuts, fractures, etc. |
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| An illness or an injury is diagnosed (not by a massage therapist) by: |
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Signs: Objective-things another person can see
Symptom: Subjective-things the other person says-not overtly obvious. |
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| What are the 4 signs of Inflamation? |
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| Heat, Redness, Swelling, Pain |
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| The first 24 hours of an injury is the _____ phase? |
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| What is the most effective action/treatment for the acute stage of inflammation? |
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RICE
Rest
Ice
Elevation
Compression |
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| What is contrast therapy? |
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Alternating between bouts of heat and ice application.
Usually a ration of more ice than heat. |
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| True or Flase: Therapeutic Inflammation is part of the healing process? |
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True.
It can "jump start" the healing mechanisms |
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| What are the 4 most common inflammatory conditions? |
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1. Arthritis
2. Asthma
3. Eczema
4. Chronic Bronchitis |
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| What is the best stroke/techniaue for breaking scar tissue and adhesions? |
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| In Therapeutic Inflammation, what methods are most effective? |
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| Acupuncture, Deep Friction, COnnective Tissue Stretching |
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| True or False: A person who is regularly taking ant-inflammatorues is a good cadidate for deep friction and stretching. |
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False.
It is counter-productive. If the medication is reducing inflammation, then further manual treatment may push the limit of natural limits. |
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| Localized, Radiating, Referred |
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| What are the two types of nerve impingement syndromes? |
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| Compression and Entrapment |
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| Pressure on a nerve by a bony structure |
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| Pressure on a nerve by soft tissue. |
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| What are the two biggested risk factors for deveoping disease? |
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| Stress and Lifestyle choices |
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| What are some stress related illnesses? |
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| HTN, Digestive Disorders, Emotional (Anxiety/Depression) Sleep Disorders, Respiratory and Cardiac. |
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| Persistent Cough, Sores that don't heal, Moles that change, Unusual bleeding, Lumps, Unexplained pain. |
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| What types of medication in particular does a massage therapist need to be concerned with? |
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Muscle Relaxers and Pain Killers
They alter the way sensory information is processed. |
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