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Massage Therapy Vocab

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1. Inward shoulder rotation rounded upper back
Tight Pec muscles Cause
Extensors generally Attach
what do the Splenius muscled do
What is Synergistic to SCM

2. Bone pushing on nerve
Synergist
Action of Pectoralis Minor
compresion of nerve
Inversion

3. Extend -Rotate -Horrizontal ABduction -Abduction( 90 Deg's)Of Humerus
Action of Coricobrachialis
Acromioclavicular joint
Action of Deltoids
shoulder joint

4. Medial
Synergist to Supraspinalis
Action of Teres Major
Action of Rhomboids
Flexor gererally Attach

5. Median nerve
Action of Levator scapula
Splenius Muscle names
Carpal tunnel Nerve
Order of wrist joints

6. C2 -C7 -Spinous Processes
Spine Bony Landmarks
Protraction
Spinal cord Nerve holes
Action of Teres Major

7. Scalenes.Pec Minor -SCM -Diaphram -external intercostals -Serratus Posterior Superior
Muscles of Inhilation
Elbow joints
Superficialis
Action of Rhomboids

8. C1-C4
Axial Skeleton
What muscles retracts and moves scapula (slightly) upward
the sacrum is made up of...
Origin of Levator scapula

9. Scalenes
Action of Pectoralis Major
Acromion process location
Spinocostal joints
What is Synergistic to SCM

10. Extension -Medial rotation -ADduction of Humerus
Action of latissimus dorsi
Oblique muscles actions
Action of Atlanto-Occipital Joint
Axial Skeleton

11. Twelve 12
compresion of nerve
3 Bones of Pelvis
# of thorasic vertebrae
Action of Levator Scapula

12. Rotate
where does trapezius Originate
Muscles of the scapula
Oblique muscles actions
Where does trapezius Insert

13. Lengthening distance of O & A
Protraction
A.S.I.S is important for what
Action of Deltoids
Eccentric Contraction

14. Manubrium -Xiphoid process
Sternum Bony Landmarks
3 Bones of Pelvis
Spinal cord Nerve holes
Scapula Bony Landmarkd

15. Foot pulling upwards
Action of Subclavius
Dorsiflexion
Action of Atlanto-Occipital Joint
Antagoinit

16. Spine -Acromion process -Vertebral border - Inferior angle -Axillary border
What muscles retracts and moves scapula (slightly) upward
Scapula Bony Landmarkd
Synergist
Carpal tunnel Nerve

17. Rhomboids Major & Minor
What muscles retracts and moves scapula (slightly) upward
What muscles are deepest to the spine
What are unattached ribs called...
Action of Atlanto-Occipital Joint

18. Sustain long peroids of contraction
Action of Supraspinatus
postural muscles
Action of Subscapularis
Dorsiflexion

19. Splenius capitus -Splenius Medius
what muscles twist the the trunk
Splenius Muscle names
What are unattached ribs called...
Sternum Bony Landmarks

20. 5 fused vertebrae
postural muscles
Action of Coricobrachialis
the sacrum is made up of...
Acromioclavicular joint

21. Supraspinatus(ABducts only)
Elbow joints
Tight Pec muscles Cause
Rotator cuff does not include this muscle
Entrapment of Braccial plexus is from what muscles

22. Glenohumeral
Deltoids CAN'T do what
shoulder joint
Eversion
Socket of glenohumeral joint is called...

23. Stenocleidomastoid
SCM Name
Fossa
Action of Infraspinatus
Synovial joint is...

24. Elevation -upward rotation -retraction -depression of scapula
Eccentric Contraction
Agonist
Action of trapezius
Erector Spinae Faschia

25. Flexion and ADduction of Humerus
Action of Coricobrachialis
Synergist to Supraspinalis
Elbow joints
Action of latissimus dorsi

26. Elevation -Downward rotation of scapula
Action of Levator Scapula
Flexor gererally Attach
Muscles of Mastication
Oblique muscles actions

27. Glenoid Fossa
Muscles of Mastication
Action of Deltoids
Muscles of Expiration
Socket of glenohumeral joint is called...

28. Floating
A.I.I.S
What are unattached ribs called...
3 Bones of Pelvis
Action of Subscapularis

29. Protraction of scapula
Action of Serratus Anterior
Muscles of Expiration
Muscles of Mastication
Dorsiflexion

30. Forward
Protraction
compresion of nerve
SCM Name
Concentric Contraction

31. Pointing foot down
Eversion
Deltoids CAN'T do what
what do the Splenius muscled do
Plantarflexion

32. Postural analysis
A.S.I.S is important for what
Flexor gererally Attach
Erector Spinae Faschia
SCM Name

33. Anterior Superior Iliac Spine
Action of Levator Scapula
Plantarflexion
Axial Skeleton
A.S.I.S

34. Deltoids
Synergist to Supraspinalis
Agonist
TMJ Muscles
Transversospinalis Group

35. Semispinalis Multifidus
Inversion
Transversospinalis Group
Most common joint
Bony landmark of elbow/humerus

36. Obliques internal & external
what muscles twist the the trunk
what do the Splenius muscled do
Muscles of Inhilation
What are the deepest abbominal muscles

37. Usually on opposite sides from each other
Splenius Muscle names
gonist and Antagonist
why is curvature of spine so important
Spinocostal joints

38. Origin & insertion moving together
Joints of Vertebral body
Spine Bony Landmarks
Inversion
Concentric Contraction

39. Epicondile-o-humerus medial & lateral
Muscles of Inhilation
Bony landmark of elbow/humerus
A.S.I.S
Action of Supraspinatus

40. Rotatores
What muscles retracts and moves scapula (slightly) upward
What muscles are deepest to the spine
A.S.I.S
Isometric Contraction

41. Clavical -Manubrium -Scapula
Shoulder girdle bones/Landmarks
Action of Rhomboids
Scapula Bony Landmarkd
what do the Splenius muscled do

42. Iliocostalis -Longissimus -Spinalis
Erector Spinae Group
Synergist to Supraspinalis
Wrist joint
Origin of Levator scapula

43. Slight Free movement yes/no side/side & diagonaly
Action of Supraspinatus
Action of Atlanto-Occipital Joint
Action of Subscapularis
A.S.I.S

44. Superior tip of Scapula
Fossa
C1 is what
Insertion of Levator scapula
Muscles on the medial side usually do what

45. Retraction -downward rotation of scapula
Superficialis
Dorsiflexion
what do the Splenius muscled do
Action of Rhomboids

46. SternoCleidoMastoid SCM
Phasic Muscles
What are the deepest abbominal muscles
Originates at Sternum & clavical -Inserts to Mastoid Process
Action of Subscapularis

47. At the ends of articulating bones covered by Hayaline cartilage and sepparated by Synovial fluid
Erector Spinae Group
Action of Deltoids
What is the sacroiliac joint
Synovial joint is...

48. Short term -Powerful -Tire easily
Phasic Muscles
Action of Subclavius
Atlantoaxial joint Action
Insertion of Levator scapula

49. Superficial
Carpal tunnel Nerve
Axial Skeleton
Superficialis
Synovial joint is...

50. They ABduct
what muscle does NOT rotate Scapula
Muscles on the lateral side usually do what
Antagoinit
Synergist