Massage Study Buddy Set 1 – Flashcards
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The friendly bond based on mutual liking, trust, and a sense of shared concerns.
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Rapport
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A comfort zone. -Personal, professional, physical, emotional, intellectual and sexual. Its function is to protect the integrity of each person.
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Boundary
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A practitioner's unresolved feelings and issues which are unconsciously transferred to the client.
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Countertransference
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The intent to promote an overall benefit for the client.
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Therapeutic Intent
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A psychological defense that involves the conscious pushing down of anxiety-producing ideas, urges, desires, feelings or memories.
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Suppression
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Physical tension used to support psychological defenses.
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Armoring
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The ability to observe one's own feelings and emotions and those of others, to differentiate among them, and utilize them to direct thoughts and behavior.
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Emotional Inteligence
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A psychological defense that involves an unconscious opposition to the therapeutic process.
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Resistance
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The displacement or transfer of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors originally related to a significant person, such as a parent, onto someone else, such as a massage therapist.
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Transference
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A massage session in which the therapist commits to the client's overall well-being and benefit.
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Client-centered Session
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A rise of feelings within a client and the expression of those feelings through words or other forms of expression.
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Emotional Release
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The quality or state of being worthy, honored or esteemed.
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Dignity
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A psychological defense that involves the unconscious transfer of feelings, impulses, or thoughts to someone else.
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Projection
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A psychological defense that involves the outright refusal to acknowledge something that has occurred or is occurring.
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Denial
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Mental processes that enable the mind to deal with conflicts it can't resolve.
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Psychological Defenses
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The practitioner's duty during a session to uphold ethical standards of behavior, not work outside scope of practice, and provide a nonjudgmental environment where clients feel safe.
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Practitioners Responsibility
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Client-centered, fiduciary relationship; the time together is structured; each person has a clear role; the environment is safe; and there is a power differential.
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Therapeutic Relationship
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A psychological dynamic in which power, either real or perceived, is held by one party in a relationship, over another.
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Power Differential
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An alliance in addition to the client/therapist relationship, such as social, familial, business or any other relationship that is outside the therapeutic relationship.
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Dual Relationships
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Overlapping relationships in which the therapist and client share an alliance, in addition to the therapeutic relationship.
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Multidimensional Relationships
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A psychological defense that involves ignoring or turning away from stimuli that trigger emotions in order to prevent recognition, or full awareness of, the material associated with the emotion.
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Deflection
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Focusing on whatever is in the best interest of the client's well-being.
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Client-centered Care
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Any mental process that allows the mind to deal with conflicts.
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Psychological Defense Mechanism
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Mal-intentioned physical contact, eg., poor draping, inattention to a client's comfort level, and the inability to meet a client's appropriate wants and needs.
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Unethical, Unprofessional Touch
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Massage technique which" milks" muscles of accumulated waste products.
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Petrissage
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Auto-immune disease characterized by disfigured joints usually presenting first in the phalanges.
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Acute Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Tapotement and 70% alcohol
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Best Technique For Amputation
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Gentle clockwise frictional strokes designed to soothe.
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Abdominal Massage
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Inflammation of the tendon sheath.
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Acute Tensynovitis
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Fibrotic "freezing" of a joint due to destruction of cartilage and bone
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Fibrous Ankylosis
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Indicated to encourage release of mucus from upper respiratory system
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Cupping On Upper Back
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Increased tendon reflexes and uncontrolled spasms in one side of the body.
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Spastic Hemoplegia
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Bruising; resulting from damage to blood vessels.
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Ecchymosis
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Emollient for skin nutrition and treatment of scar tissue
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Cocoa Butter
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Immersion of body part into melted wax bath for thermotherapeutic effect.
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Paraffin Bath
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Full body steam bath with client's head outside the cabinet or tent.
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Russian Bath
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Produces vasodilation through thermoreceptors in the skin.
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Infrared Light
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Respond best to cold treatments.
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Acute Conditions & Inflammatory Disease
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Heavy, rhythmic percussion involving use of the therapist's closed, soft fist.
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Beating
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Different levels of compressive force described as being light, moderate, deep or varied.
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Depth Of Pressure
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Sedative method using no lubrication but gentle side-to-side motion and light force.
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Rocking & Compression
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Hydrotherapy where water heated to boiling provides relaxation, breathing aid and possible antiseptic effect
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Steam
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Thermal devices that can transit or absorb heat when applied to the body.
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Massage Stones
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Agent used in scrubs and wraps to remove dead skin cells.
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Exfoliant
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Compressive force which as a rule is applied slowly to move through superficial tissues to the target structures.
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Deep Pressure
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Percussion and vibration.
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Oscillation
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Mobilizes the tissues under the skin.
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Friction
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A method of physical bodywork that lengthens and elongates tissues.
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Stretching
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Stretching technique holding one attachment site and elongating the remaining muscle or muscle group.
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Pin & Stretch
