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Massage Therapy Vocab

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1. Anterior Superior Iliac Spine
A.S.I.S
Joints of Vertebral body
Protraction
Inversion

2. Rotatores
What muscles are deepest to the spine
Muscles on the medial side usually do what
Spinal cord Nerve holes
Action of Rhomboids

3. Extend -Rotate -Horrizontal ABduction -Abduction( 90 Deg's)Of Humerus
Action of Levator Scapula
Shoulder girdle bones/Landmarks
What muscles retracts and moves scapula (slightly) upward
Action of Deltoids

4. Tempromandibular joint
Action of Pectoralis Major
Action of Teres Major
What muscles retracts and moves scapula (slightly) upward
TMJ joint

5. C2 -C7 -Spinous Processes
Action of Pectoralis Major
the sacrum is made up of...
Spine Bony Landmarks
Carpal tunnel Nerve

6. Atlanto axial
A.S.I.S is important for what
C2 is what
Rotator cuff does not include this muscle
What is the sacroiliac joint

7. Retraction -downward rotation of scapula
Spinal cord Nerve holes
Where does trapezius Insert
what muscles twist the the trunk
Action of Rhomboids

8. C1-C4
Origin of Levator scapula
What muscles retracts and moves scapula (slightly) upward
false ribs are where
Spinocostal joints

9. Obliques internal & external
what muscles twist the the trunk
Oblique muscles actions
# of thorasic vertebrae
postural muscles

10. Intervertebral joints
why is shoulder so prone to injury
shoulder joint
Joints of Vertebral body
Most common joint

11. Short term -Powerful -Tire easily
Agonist to Rhomboids
Phasic Muscles
Where does trapezius Insert
Scapula Bony Landmarkd

12. Medial rotation of Humerus
Action of Subscapularis
Elbow joints
Profundus
The coccyx is...

13. Sustain long peroids of contraction
Spinocostal joints
postural muscles
where does trapezius Originate
Deltoids CAN'T do what

14. Assists Prime mover
Synovial joint is...
What muscles are deepest to the spine
Isometric Contraction
Synergist

15. Distributes impact and compression more easily
Origin of Levator scapula
what do the Splenius muscled do
The coccyx is...
why is curvature of spine so important

16. Iliam -Ischium -Pubis
# of cervical vertebrae
Scapula Bony Landmarkd
Fossa
3 Bones of Pelvis

17. Clavical/shoulder joint
C1 is what
Acromioclavicular joint
Where does trapezius Insert
Spinal cord Nerve holes

18. Scalenes
Spinal cord Nerve holes
Transversospinalis Group
What is Synergistic to SCM
Originates at Sternum & clavical -Inserts to Mastoid Process

19. Prime Mover
Agonist
Action of Infraspinatus
Transversospinalis Group
C2 is what

20. Protraction -depression -Downward Rotation of scapula
TMJ joint
Eccentric Contraction
Inversion
Action of Pectoralis Minor

21. Fibro cartlige
What is the sacroiliac joint
# of cervical vertebrae
Trapezius Can't Do this
Isometric Contraction

22. SternoCleidoMastoid SCM
Action of Coricobrachialis
What is Synergistic to SCM
Entrapment
Originates at Sternum & clavical -Inserts to Mastoid Process

23. Above floating attached by cartliage to sternum
C1 is what
false ribs are where
The coccyx is...
Sternum Bony Landmarks

24. Lateral end of spine-o-scapula forms top of shoulder
Acromion process location
Superficialis
Muscles on the medial side usually do what
3 Bones of Pelvis

25. Supraspinatus -Infraspinatus -Teres Minor -Subscapularis
what muscles twist the the trunk
Synergist
Rotator Cuff Muscles
where does trapezius Originate

26. Masseter -temporalis -Buccinator -Orbicularis Oris
The coccyx is...
Phasic Muscles
Muscles of Mastication
Where does trapezius Insert

27. Bilateral -unilateral flexion and rotation
Acromion process location
Erector Spinae Group
3 Bones of Pelvis
Splenius Capitus/Splenius Cerisis Do what

28. Superficial
Superficialis
Action of latissimus dorsi
where does trapezius Originate
Tight Pec muscles Cause

29. Origin & insertion moving together
Action of Subscapularis
Concentric Contraction
Tight Pec muscles Cause
What is Synergistic to SCM

30. At the ends of articulating bones covered by Hayaline cartilage and sepparated by Synovial fluid
Axial Skeleton
Entrapment
Synovial joint is...
Protraction

31. Extension -Medial rotation -ADduction of Humerus
Action of latissimus dorsi
Antagoinit
A.S.I.S
Trapezius Can't Do this

32. Thoracolumbar and Nuchael Faschia
Trapezius Can't Do this
Erector Spinae Faschia
Action of Rhomboids
What are the deepest abbominal muscles

33. Medial
Deltoids CAN'T do what
C2 is what
Flexor gererally Attach
Acromion process location

34. 4 fused vertebrae
Muscles of Mastication
The coccyx is...
A.S.I.S
Trapezius Can't Do this

35. 5 fused vertebrae
Profundus
Flexor gererally Attach
what do the Splenius muscled do
the sacrum is made up of...

36. Scalenes -subscapularis -Pec-Minor
The coccyx is...
Entrapment of Braccial plexus is from what muscles
Inversion
Muscles of the scapula

37. Traps -SCM -temporalis -semispenalis capititis/cervicis/longissimus
Headache muscles
Atlantoaxial joint Action
shoulder joint
What is Synergistic to SCM

38. Supraspinatus -Infraspinatus -Teres Minor -Subscapularis -serratus anterior
compresion of nerve
The coccyx is...
Muscles of the scapula
C1 is what

39. Splenius capitus -Splenius Medius
postural muscles
Concentric Contraction
Action of Subclavius
Splenius Muscle names

40. Median nerve
# of cervical vertebrae
Wrist joint
Carpal tunnel Nerve
Action of Supraspinatus

41. Serratus Anterior
Most common joint
Agonist to Rhomboids
Deltoids CAN'T do what
Originates at Sternum & clavical -Inserts to Mastoid Process

42. Stabalizes clavical
Action of Subclavius
What is Synergistic to SCM
Rotator cuff does not include this muscle
Synovial joint is...

43. Concave space for joint ball
Entrapment
Fossa
# of cervical vertebrae
Action of Supraspinatus

44. Manubrium -Xiphoid process
Sternum Bony Landmarks
Insertion of Levator scapula
What muscles are deepest to the spine
Order of wrist joints

45. RadioCarpal -CarpalMetaCarpal -Proximal-MetaCarpal Phalangeal -Distal Inter phalangeal
A.I.I.S
Action of Supraspinatus
TMJ joint
Order of wrist joints

46. Epicondile-o-humerus medial & lateral
Action of Rhomboids
A.S.I.S is important for what
Bony landmark of elbow/humerus
Profundus

47. Pivot and Rotate
Where does trapezius Insert
What are unattached ribs called...
Atlantoaxial joint Action
What muscles retracts and moves scapula (slightly) upward

48. Postural analysis
Rotator cuff does not include this muscle
C2 is what
Axial Skeleton
A.S.I.S is important for what

49. Synovial
Muscles of Inhilation
Sternum Bony Landmarks
Action of Subscapularis
Most common joint

50. Anterior Inferior Iliac Spine
Action of Supraspinatus
A.I.I.S
Action of Pectoralis Minor
Insertion of Levator scapula