Exam 14: Clinical Massage: Pain, Trigger Points, Fascia, Orthopedic Assessments, and Applications Methods

Which term means the brain's ability to change, remodel, and reorganize itself to improve adaptability?

Which term means sheets of fibrous tissues enveloping the body beneath the skin, and enclosing and compartmentalizing muscle tissue layers and muscle groups?

Which factor is used to establish a client's health status, identify treatment goals, and determine how these goals are best accomplished?

Which term means a repetitive pattern that begins when one foot contacts the ground and ends when the same foot contacts the ground again?

Which term means an abnormal sensation, either spontaneous or provoked?

Which lateral landmark is used in static postural assessment?

Which method involves the client actively contracting against a counterforce?

Which term refers to the maximum intensity of a pain-producing stimulus an individual is willing to accept in any given situation?

Which term is used to describe a trigger point that is nonpainful until compressed, and the client is unfamiliar with the resulting pain?

Which term is given to pain generated by non-nociceptive nerve activation?

Which term means the client is performing a movement while the massage therapist opposes it?

Which term means conscious or unconscious ways of moving used to correct imbalances and reduce discomfort?

During the stance period of the gait cycle, what percentage of time is the foot in contact with the ground?

The Full Can/Empty Can Tests may identify dysfunction in which muscle?

How long is compression or transverse friction typically applied to a trigger point?

Which term means an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage?

Which term refers to restoration of an individual to a normal or near normal condition after a disabling disease or injury?

Which phenomenon is a brisk contraction elicited by snapping palpation of a trigger point?

Which term is given to pain that outlasts the typical healing time of involved tissues?

In the acronym TART, what does A stand for?