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Massage And Basic Medical Terms
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1. Created in Big Sur - California. It includes long flowing strokes with scented oils - incense and a connection to the inner self
definintion of syndrome
effleurage
Shiatsu points
Esalen Massage
2. Abnormalities of development caused by faulty genetic programming or due to noxious influences in the fetus while in the uterus
flexion
compressions
genetic/congenital
Hippocrates
3. French barber & surgeon - described positive of massage in the healing process & relieving joint stiffness
Physical Therapist who developed Myeofacial Release
Ambrose Pare
published a natural health magazine called Physical Culture
Associated Bodywork & MassageProfessionals
4. Triangle shaped
General Adaptation Syndrome
Given to a Hindu seer by the God Indra
deltoid
Wrote the first English based book on the Swedish Movement Cure using Mezger's classifications in 1851
5. National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork
NCBTMB
Shiatsu points
deltoid
this person abolished massage and destroyed baths & gymnasiums
6. Example: side bends
lateral flexion
benign
Paul St. John
predisposing conditions
7. Toward the middle or midline of the body
ventral
health
medial
published a natural health magazine called Physical Culture
8. Massage practices returned to Europe and flourished
deltoid
Amma
Dr. George Taylor
Renaissance period
9. Cancerous growth that may result in death
David Palmer
morbidity
malignant
James Harvey Kellogg
10. Used plants - exercise & massage for treatment of disease and to maintain health
Amma techniques
improved the timeline for recovery of soldiers of WWI
Chinese amma techniques
stress
11. Degeneration
frontal
health
normal process of aging - gradual deterioration of normal cells and body function
auxiliary
12. Stimulates nerves in the finger pressure technique
hypochondrium
John Upledger
improved the timeline for recovery of soldiers of WWI
Shiatsu points
13. Known as the Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
mortality
Paul St. John
James Harvey Kellogg
14. Through secreting of regulating hormones - it allows the body to continue fighting a stressor long after the effects of the alarm has dissipated
inguinal
resistance reaction of stress
published a natural health magazine called Physical Culture
Amma techniques
15. To press or squeeze together
considered by some as the Father of Swedish Massage in the U.S. & the founding father of the American Physical Education Association
compressions
eversion
Dr. Douglas Graham
16. James Harvey Kellogg
benign
Paul St. John
promoted biological living at his natural healing resort
popliteal
17. Developed modern Reflexology by building on the work of Dr. Fitzgerald
Japanese Tsubo
hypogastric
Eunice Ingram
health
18. Aka Chinese Acupoints
Japanese Tsubo
Dr. George Taylor
Ambrose Pare
auxiliary
19. Decreasing the angle between two bones
proximal
dorsiflexion
flexion
Eunice Ingram
20. Indian and Hindu practices
start of the modern day spas
Ayru-Veda
benign
Dr. Douglas Graham
21. Optimal functioning with freedom of disease
Hippocrates
health
hypogastric
Associated Bodywork & MassageProfessionals
22. First written text in 500 B.C. - Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine
NCBTMB
Amma
health
auto-immunity
23. Pertaining to the side of the body
lateral
stress
auxiliary
COMTA
24. James Harvey Kellogg
gluteal
because of this person - the first resort spa in the U.S. came into being. It promoted vegetarian diets - exercise - various forms of bathing and massage
General Adaptation Syndrome
predisposing conditions
25. Egyptian
this massage centered mainly around royalty
Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards
NCBTMB
The tradition of massage for athletes in the U.S.
26. Sports massage
epigastric
Greek massage
The tradition of massage for athletes in the U.S.
hypogastric
27. Below the surface
deep
resistance reaction of stress
stress
Ambrose Pare
28. Dr. Douglas Graham
considered by some as the Father of Swedish Massage in the U.S. & the founding father of the American Physical Education Association
David Palmer
friction
cervical
29. Alarm - resistance reaction - exhaustion
General Adaptation Syndrome
normal process of aging - gradual deterioration of normal cells and body function
because of this person - the first resort spa in the U.S. came into being. It promoted vegetarian diets - exercise - various forms of bathing and massage
epigastric
30. Groin
Given to a Hindu seer by the God Indra
Physical Therapist who developed Myeofacial Release
inguinal
start of the modern day spas
31. Behind the knee
compressions
Dr. George Taylor
popliteal
Ayru-Veda
32. Any physiological or physical situation or conditon that causes tension or strain
stress
Tui-na
definition of 'sign'
NCBTMB
33. Developed What is known as Craniosacral Therapy
definition of 'sign'
John Upledger
rubbing in massage is a way to do this
lateral
34. Abnormal growth (tumor).
because of this person - the first resort spa in the U.S. came into being. It promoted vegetarian diets - exercise - various forms of bathing and massage
ventral
health
neoplasm
35. Hippocrates
Amma
John Upledger
extension
believed that all physicians should be trained in massage as a method of healing
36. Region above the stomach
this massage centered mainly around royalty
anatripsis
cervical
epigastric
37. Bernarr MacFadden
mastoid
published a natural health magazine called Physical Culture
normal process of aging - gradual deterioration of normal cells and body function
NCBTMB
38. Lived (460 to 380 B.C.)
James B. Mennell
Given to a Hindu seer by the God Indra
Hippocrates
alarm phase of stress
39. Subjective abnormalities as reported by the patient/client - what do they tell you?
40. Fight or flight
Pehr Henrik Ling
alarm phase of stress
because of this person - the first resort spa in the U.S. came into being. It promoted vegetarian diets - exercise - various forms of bathing and massage
hypochondrium
41. Massage and Bodywork Licensing exam
Amma
MBLex
Pehr Henrik Ling
Ayru-Veda
42. It takes place if the stress continues without relief
AMTA
exhaustion phase of stress
epigastric
this massage centered mainly around royalty
43. Pulling foot up towards the anterior part of the leg
mortality
dorsiflexion
Esalen Massage
alarm phase of stress
44. Towards the origin
Pehr Henrik Ling
brachial
Mary McMillan
proximal
45. Tumor that is usually not life-threatening
believed that all physicians should be trained in massage as a method of healing
Tui-na
this massage centered mainly around royalty
benign
46. Forehead
coronal plane
benign
frontal
Eunice Ingram
47. Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation
NCBTMB
COMTA
predisposing conditions
Given to a Hindu seer by the God Indra
48. Touch Research Institute (TRI)
alarm phase of stress
Created in 1992 & was the first centered devoted to basic and applied research in the use of touch in human health development
mastoid
femoral
49. Stomach
gastric
AMTA
definintion of syndrome
The tradition of massage for athletes in the U.S.
50. Abdominal region lateral to the epigastric reagion
hypochondrium
friction
Western Massage
deficiency