Treatment 5

1. Focusing treatment on specific areas on the hands or feet to affect physiological functions is known as:-

Polarity Therapy

Reflexology

Feldernkrais

Bindegewebsmassage

2. It is unethical for a massage practitioner to date a client because:

It damages the practitioner's reputation

Session fees may be reduced

Scheduling difficulties may arise

Professional boundaries are compromised

3. When providing massage to someone with an end stage terminal illness, the PRIMARY focus is:

Rehabilitation

Injury repair

Movement performance

Providing comfort

4. In Asian bodywork systems, chi refers to:

Life force

Pernicious influence

Disharmony

Seven emotions

5. Universal precautions are procedures for:

Preventing the spread of contagious diseases

Avoiding repetitive use injuries

Screening potential new clients

Establishing continuing education requirements

6. Which of the following reactions is a result of emotional stress?

Increased leg cramps

Decreased blood pressure

Incrased blood pressure

Decreased pulse

7. In Ayurvedic massage, energy centers are called:

Tsubos

Doshas

Chakras

Marmas

8. Pitting edema is a differentiated from non-pitting edema when:

Pressure is intolerable

Tapping on the tissue causes pain and redness

Tapping on the tissue causes numbness and redness

Firm pressure leaves an indentation that remains

9. What is the effect of histamine release on the cardiovascular system?

Arterial occlusion

Interstitial restriction

Vasoconstriction

Vasodilatation

10. A massage bodywork practitioner, is doing a post-event massage at a 10 Krud. The athlete is perspiring profusely and complains of weakness. The practitioner suspects of:

Potential for vomiting

Potential for severe cramps

Heat stroke

Heat exhaustion

11. Occlusion of the vertebral artery may occur when pressing:

The head in a full rotation of the neck

On the anterior triangle with the arm rotated

Deeply into the axilla when the shoulder is rotated

Behind the angle of the mandible with the chin retracted

12. If the technique being used requires heavy pressure to be most effective, how shall the massage/bodywork practitioner ensure effective treatment and client comfort?

Encourage the client to rate the pain level and then moderate the pressure.

Ask the client to increase his/her pain tolerance and maintain the pressure

Explain to the client why the pressure is necessary and maintains thepressure

Encourage the client to endure the pain even if he/she cannot breath Into the pressure

13. Deep compression or deep gliding strokes are contraindicated for which area of the body?

Forearm

Medial upper arm

Posterior upper arm

Lateral upper arm

14. To update a client's primary care physician about the client's healt status, the massage/bodywork practitioner's standard protocol for communication is to:

Call with a summary of the client's progress

Send a narrative report after every session

Send periodic narrative report

Send a copy of all the client's documentation

15. Points along the conception Vessel Meridian are located on the:

Medial arm

Linea Alba

Lateral leg

Dorsal spine

16. Net income is defines as:

Total income received

Total income less expenditures

Income received as cash

Income received as checks

17. Which is the most important question for a massage practitioner to ask FIRST when a client reports pain during a range of motion assessment?

How did it happen?

Where is the pain and can you describe it?

When did the pain start?

Does this movement always produce pain?

18. With the client's written permission, which of the following documents are appropriate to forward to other health care professional?

Record of payment

Practitioner's personal opinions about the client

Copies of client forms

Letters of reference

19. When palpating the lateral side of the popliteal fossa in resisted knee flexion, which muscle tendon will be felt?

Popliteus

Sernimembranous

Semitendinous

Biceps femoris

20. Pain in the arm can be due to an impingement on the brachial plexus by the:

Temporalis

Triceps brachii

Latissimus dorsi

Pectoralis minor