MBLEX Final (need to work on)

Isometric contraction

Same or equal length. Length of the muscle stays the same, but the tension in the muscle change.

Example is trying to lift something that is too heavy for you to lift.

Isotonic contraction

Same or equal tension. Tension in muscle stays the same, but length changes.

Concentric Contraction

Tension in muscle initially increases, and muscle length decreases

Eccentric Contraction

Tension and muscle initially decreases into amount of tension required to reform action is reached. Muscle length increases

Bow/archer stance

Feet parallel to the table

Horse/warrior stance

Feet perpendicular to table

General liability insurance

Protects massage therapist with accidental fall

Professional liability

Protecting therapist from lawsuit such as malpractice and negligence

Tax form 1040

Tax reform documentation to IRS that includes gross income, taxes, withheld, and deductions

tax form 1099

Independent contractor by the company they contract with

Tax form schedule C

Attachment to the 1040 filed to the IRS by so proprietors. It shows the amount of money the business made in the previous year

Tax form schedule K – 1

Filed by individual Partnership members and similar to a W-2

Tax form schedule SE

Attachment to the 1040 details Social Security tax info for self-employed individuals

Define Permeable boundaries

Allow conversation, information, and emotions to flow freely between the therapist and client. No topic off-limits by either party.

Define semi permeable boundaries

Allow therapist to be open or distant with client depending on the situation

Define impermeable boundaries

Severely limit the exchange of information between the therapist and client (when client asked too much information about therapist if client makes sexual advances)

Define active listening

Listening to what client is saying and actively interpreting the info being given

Define passive listening

Listening to client with or without responding

Define Tapotement

Percussion strokes, increase spindle cell activity in muscles. Pre-sports massage. Loosening phlegm. Helpful with asthma.

Define petrissage

Kneading. Post sports (Massage). Helps flush waste from muscles and bring fresh oxygen rich blood to them.

Define friction

Strokes that move across tissue. Stretching muscle and helping scar tissue.

Define vibration

Shaking. Slow is used to sedate an area. Fast used to stimulate area.

Define active joint movement

Client performing movement without assistance

Define active assistive joint movement

Client performing movement with assistance

Define passive joint movement

Therapist moving the joint with client, relaxed and not helping

Define displacement

Satisfying an impulse by substitution. (Release your pent-up emotions at some thing other than what is causing the emotions)

Define projection

Placing one’s own initial feelings onto someone else. (Wife getting hungry and easily agitated. Getting upset at husband.)

Define regression

Taking a step back psychologically when faced with stress. (Quitting smoking. Stop a few days, but getting stressed and starting again.)

Define repression

Subconsciously breaking out unwanted emotion

Define slander

Intentionally using false statements verbally

Define Libel

False statements, but written

Define sagittal plane

Splits the body left and right, but not equal

Define transverse or horizontal plane

Splits the body into Superior and inferior

Define frontal or coronal plane

Split the body into anterior and posterior

What body parts are located in the Trunk of the body?

Thorax, chest, abdomen, pelvis

What parts of the body are located in the upper limb?

Arm, forearm, wrist, hand

What parts of the body are located in the upper limb?

Thigh, leg, ankle, foot

What is located in the upper right quadrant?

Liver, gallbladder, pancreas, right kidney, small intestine, and large intestine

What is located in the upper left quadrant?

Stomach spleen, pancreas, left kidney, small intestine and large intestine

What is located in the lower right quadrant?

Small intestine, large intestine uterus ovary urinary bladder

What is located in the lower left quadrant?

Small intestine, large intestine, uterus, ovaries, and urinary bladder

Ball and socket joint

Most amount of movement. Move the joint in any direction. (Shoulder and hip joint)

Hinge joint

Only open and closing. Movement in one plane. Only flexion and extension. (Elbow and knee)

Pivot joint

Only one type of movement, rotation. Only allows structure to turn.

Plane/gliding joint

Flat surfaces, disc of cartilage between bones. Joint to move, or glide, in any direction, although slight movement.

Saddle joint

(Carpometacarpal joint of thumb) first metacarpal in the trapezium

Ellipsoid/condyloid joint

Movement such as flexion extension, abduction, abduction, and circumduction

Axial skeleton

Skull, vertebral Column, thoracic cage

Appendicular skeleton

Humorous, radius ulna, carpals, metacarpals, phalanges, femur, tibia, fibula, tarsals, pectoral girdle

Davis’s law

Tissue, such as muscle will repair damage due to the tissue to strengthen the tissue to prevent injury in the future

Hilton’s Law

Nerve that intervenes a muscle that crosses a joint and acts on the joint will also innovate the skin and joint on top the muscle

Pfluger’s law

Neuromuscular law distribution of pain that has five different categories. Law of unlaterality, Law of symmetry, law of intensity, law of radiation, law of generalization

Reciprocal Ingibition

Agonist, muscle contracts, antagonist muscle relax

Sherrington’s law

Muscle that controls the eye

Wolff’s law

Remodeling of bone tissue. Remodel itself to be more dense, adding strength to the bone, when the bone is placed under pressure.

Define long bones

Longer than they are wide

Define short bones

As long as they are wide

Define irregular bones

Unusual shaped

Define flat bones

Thin and flat

Define sesamoid bones

Embedded into tendons and round

Where are epiphyses?

At the end of long bones

Where are Metaphyses located?

Between the epiphyses and the diaphysis

Where are the Diaphysis located?

On the shaft of bone or middle of the bone

Synarthrotic joint

Little to no move

amphiarthrotic joints

Slightly movable

Diarthrotic joints

Freely movable joints

Sagittal suture

Top of head and connecting to pariental bones

Coronal suture

Connecting frontal bone to parietal bones

Squamous suture

Side of the skull and connecting parietal and temporal bones

Lambdoid suture

Connect occipital bone to parietal bones

What is the pathway that blood takes through the heart?

Vein, atrium, valve, ventricle, artery (VAVVA)

Circular muscle shape

Is located around the mouth and eyes

Convergent muscle shape

Muscles are spread out on one end and merge together. (Pectoralis major)

Fusiform muscle shape

Thin at attachment site, and wider in the middle. (Biceps Brachii)

Parallel muscle shape

Same direction (coracobrachialis)

Pennate muscle shape

Muscles appearance resembles a feather

Unipennate muscle

One feather (Flexor Pollicis longus)

Bipennate muscle shape

Two feathers. (Rectus Femoris)

Multipennate muscle shape

Multiple feathers. (Deltoid)

Flexion

Decreasing angle of joint

Extension

Increase angle of joint

Abduction

Away from midline

adduction

Towards midline

Protraction

Moving structure anteriorly

Retraction

Moving posteriorly

Inversion

Sole foot towards the midline

Eversion

Sole of foot away from midline

Elevation

Superiorly

Depression

Inferiorly

Supination

Rotating palm facing upwards

Pronation

Rotating palm facing downwards

Rotation

Turning structure around its long axis

Circumduction

Turning structure around circumference of joint

Opposition

Moving structure opposite direction

Lateral deviation

Side to side

Plantar flexion

Toes down

Dorsiflexion

Toes up

Prime mover/agonist

Primarily performs specific action

Synergist

Assist the prime mover/agonist in performing the action

antagonist

Muscle performs opposite action of the prime mover/agonist