Massage Therapy Mblex Practice test

Extensors

When assessing the radiocarpal joint, what muscle group would you lengthen to release or decrease mild extention at the wrist?

Proximal and radioulnar joints

What joints in the forearm are produced the supination and pronation actions?

Nipples and genitalia

Which areas of the client are never appropriate for massage treatment?

The client's willingness and ability to contract muscles

What does active ROM test?

Contract- relax and post-isometric relaxation

Which of the following techniques are examples of Active Inhibition techniques?

Antagonist/ Agonist

A(n) ___has the opposite desired action of a___muscle?

Skeletal

What body system produces blood cells and stores minerals?

Drop Arm

What test would be positive if your client had rotator cuff tears?

The Frontal Plane

What body plane would divide the body vertically into a front and back portion?

Diathrotic

The glenohumeral joint is freely moveable and is functionally classified as?

Quadratus Lumborum

Which muscle has its origin at the aponeurotic fibers of the iliolumbar ligament and at the adjacent portions of the iliac crest?

Subjective

The S in the acronym SOAP stands for what?

Trapezius

What muscle is responsible for head, neck, and shoulder movements?

Paralysis,acute stages of healing, and severe pain on exercising

The contraindications for to resistance exercise includes

Muscle to bone

Tendons are fibrous tissue that connect

Touch of health

Which of the following massage profession methods is an approach of applied kinesiology?

Mouth,pharnyx,esophagus,stomach, small intestine, and large intestine

What is the proper travel order of food through the gastrointestinal tract?

Motility disorder strongly associated with anxiety , stress, or depression.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gastrointestinal concern that is defined as a(n)

Condition of chronic synovial inflammation in childen

Still's disease and Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) are inflammatory arthritides defined as a

Petrissage

Increasing blood pressure is a reflective effect of what type of treatment technique done on the abdomen?

Does the pain move or refer to other areas

While giving an assessment there are there are three types of question you ask to obtain relevant information for the treatment plan; general, specific, and pain question. Which of the following is a pain question?

Professionalism

Conducting any communication with other professionals with a friendly and professional manner is listed what code of ethic?

Levator Scapula

What muscle would you be assessing with a severe downward rotation of the scapulothoracic joint?

Frontal

What plane of motion is ABduction and ADduction performed on?

Shiatsu

This modality is used in Japan and is translated to "finger-pressure". It utilizes acupuncture points to unblock the flow of life energy and restores balance to the meridians and organs to promote self healing.

Right

What section of the heart is utilized for pulmonary circulation?

Liver, Spleen, pancreas, Kidney, and Heart

Which of the following is a solid organ

Nervous system

What body system detects sensations and controls movement?

Medial rotation

All the muscles within the ADductor group perform two actions, the first is ADduction what is the second?

An occupation requiring training and specialized study

Choose from the following the definition of profession?

Postural Assessment (PA)

A(n) ____ helps the therapist analyze imbalances in their client's posture that may contribute to the client's comdition.

A degenerative of the annular fibers of the intervertebral disc

Degenerative disc disease is a joint dysfunction and defined as

Antibodies

As a reaction to the presence of foreign particles, the body's immune system may create?

Refrain from any behavior or conduct that sexualizes or appears to sexualize the client/ therapist relationship

The Prevention of Sexual Misconduct section in the Standard of Practice says that therapist will?

Gastrointestinal concern

Inflammatory bowel disease is used to identity Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, it is termed a(n)

Sternothyroid

What infrahyoid muscle does not insert onto the hyoid bone.

Structural and functional

Postural dysfunction have two classifications, what are they?

Within normal limits, mild, moderate, and severe

During a ROM assessment,it is within our scope practice to use____ when rating any limitations or dysfunction.

Deltoid (posterier), infraspinatus, and teres minor.

Name the three muscles that perform lateral rotation of the glenhumeral joint?

Lymphatic

What system in the body regulates and maintains tissue fluids and combats disease?

Achieve your own understanding of the clients' condition

If an assessment or diagnosis has already been made for your client it is best to?

Rectus Femoris

If the patella is retricted, what muscle would be worked to return functional non-restrictive movement to the knee.

In the hand

Where can you find the pollex?

ABduct/ ADduct

To actively resist the supraspinatus in testing for tendonitis, strain or weakness, it is best to place the client in a seated position. Have them _____ the humerus 90 degrees and then ____ horizontally 30 degrees.

Professionalism

When you treat dignity, respect, and worth, you are adhering to which Standard of Practice?

Brachioradialis

What forearm muscle would be assessed when both pronation and supination are performed?

Osteophatic Medicine

Which occupation is an independent school of medicine and surgery using all methods of diagnosis and treatment in physical and mental health disease?

Open- minded

When communicating with a client, care is taken not to lead the client or make assumptions about symptoms. What kind of questions are asked to assess the client's conditions?

Right Kidney

Because of the liver, which structure in the urinary system is slightly lower?

Petrissage

Generally this technique rythmically compresses and releases the tissue and creates kneading and stretches of tissue layers

Anterior

With regard to directional terms, the front of the body is?

Get consent to test

Before performing assessment test on a client you must?

Keep your radio carpal joint in a neutral position

To protect your radio carpal joint when giving a massage, it is best to

Qi

The TCM, health is present when ____ flows well through the body and there exist yin and yang.

A chronic systemic inflammatory disorder involving specific areas of the body, primarily the spine.

The cause of Ankylosing Spondolitis is idiopathic and defined as?

Frozen shoulder

Adhesive Capsulitis is another name for which pathology?

Tensor Fascia Latae

Which of the following muscles attach to the IT Band?

So the client feels more relaxed and has a sense of what will happen

What is the purpose of communicating the treatment plan to the client before the massage?

Drag and Torque the tissue, you must work the techniques tissue to the injury site

In early healing stages of wounds or burns, direction of pressure in techniques must be modified due to the fragility of grandulation tissue. It is contraindicated to?

Ingestion, mechanical digestion,chemical digestion, propulsion, absorption, and defacation

The Gastrointestinal (GI) tract activities in order are?

Airway breathing and circulation

What does ABC mean stand for in first aid CPR, when checking an unconcious person?

Professionalism

Maintaing a high standard in conduct, service in relation to clientele is conducted as part of what code of ethic?

Inguinal region

Where can you find the femoral lymph nodes?

Enlargement of the air spaces distal to the terminal bronchioles and the destruction of the alveolar walls

Emphysema is a respiratory pathology that is defined as a(n)

Active Resisted

What type of ROM testing is used to pinpoint adhesions?

Nephrons

The ___ are the structural and functional units of the kidneys and are responsible for forming urine.

The person looks in pain and their breathing is noisy

Which of the following is a signal that a person is having trouble breathing?

Skin Rolling

To treat trigger points and check for fascial restrictions with Petrissage, what type would be used as an assessment technique?

Urinary

Which system eliminates waste from the circulatory system and balances water within the body?

Oncology massage

This massage is tailored to meet the needs of individuals with cancer.

Glands cardiac and smooth muscle

The Autonomic nervous system (ANS) controls?

Flexion of the coxal joint, rectus femoris, ant. gluteus med,gluteus minimus,tensor fascia latae (TFL),

sartorias, psoas major, iliacus, ADductor magnus, longus brevis, and pectineus assist in flexion.

Which muscle of the leg is involved in the flexion of the thigh

Active Isolated Stretching

Which of the following techniques would you use to increase flexibility in his Quadraceps, Hamstrings and calf muscle, to decrease the pain in his knees.

Residing stomachache

All of the following situations are appropriate to call 911, except?

Rhomboids

The muscles reaction to dysfunction can be catergorized into two groups; primarily postural and primarily phasic, which of the following is a primarily phasic muscles?

You are faced with immediate danger, or you need to get to the

Moving a seriously injured person is only allowed if

Flexion and medial rotation of the coxal joint

The Gluteus Medius has anterior and posterier fibers, what actions are the anterior fibers in charge of?

Biceps femoris, gracilis and sartorious

What group of muscles work together to flex the tibiofemoral joint?

Ask for their day and time preference

When scheduling a client for their next massage, it is better to

Post-isometric Relaxation

In active techniques, the client reflexively inhibits or relaxes the muscles so it can be lengthened. Which of the following techniques utilizes breathing and specific eye movements to increase the stretch?

Naturopathy

The combination of clinical nutrition, herbology, homeopathy, manipulation, hydrotherapy, acupuncture,massage, excercise, and psychological methods are the scope of practice for which occupation?

Synergist

A helper to the prime mover

Subscapularis

Having trigger points in this muscle can be a cause of frozen shoulder

Abductor pollicis longus

You are assessing your clients thumb and find that there is pain on extension and ABduction, what muscle is indicated?

Spinal Cord Injury

Which of the following pathologies is not a condition of the peripheral nervous system?

Endocrine

Each kidney in the urinary system has an adrenal gland above them, what system are the adrenal glands a part of?

Scope of practice and appropriate techniques

Being concious of your intent to the services that you provide and utilizing good judgement in regards to any appreciation provided by massage, is critical under what code of ethics?

Professionalism

Reframing from any use of any mind altering substance before or during a massage is considered to be conduct under what code of ethic?

Acromion , lateral 1/3 of the clavicleand deltoid tuberosity forms a V shape on the arm. The deltoid is superficial , you should be able to feel the posterior and anterior fibers.

What three landmarks do you palpate between to find the muscle belly of the deltoid?

Amma

The treatment uses deep tissue (pressure, friction, and touch) to specific points along the meridians to balance the movement of energy within in the body to restore, promote and maintain optimum health. Choose from the following list the modality that you can refer your client to?

Pain relief

Hydrotherapy is a form of complimetary that combines well with massage, one therapeutic use is analgesic which means a(n)

Levator Scapula

What muscle would be affected if the area of the superior angle on the scapula was tender to the touch?

Use your free hand to palpate and guide it

When applying deep pressure using your olecranon process or elbow, you must?

Finger Pressure

The literal translation of shiatsu is?

Internally rotating, extending, and ADducting the humerus

To be able to have proper access to the supraspinatus tendon, which positioning would work best?

Attlanto-occipital

Which cervical joint is in charge of allowing flexion, extension, and lateral flexion.

Maintain body homostasis, provide for sensation, higher mental functions, and emotional response

What is the function of the nervous system?

Pes Planus

Which of the following pathologies is not a musculoskeletal injur?

Decreased circulation

Of the following effects of hydrotherapy which is not an effect of heat application?

Transference

____ Is the displacement or transfer of latent emotions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors originally related to childhood experiences that can be triggered by treatment work?