Contraindication - approach that could be harmful.
- Avoidance's:
- General Avoidance - No massage techniques may be used.
- Regional Avoidance - A particular area is avoided.
- Caution - Client safety is maintained.
Objective - Results can be measured my the therapist.
Subjective - Results are assumed by the client/patient.
Therapeutic change - Beneficial alteration in the clients physical, mental, and spiritual stats that results from a therapeutic massage process.
Condition management - The use of massage methods to support clients who are not able to undergo a Therapeutic change but want to live life to the fullest.
Palliative care - Attempts to relieve or reduce the intensity of uncomfortable symptoms, does not try to produce a cure.
Suffering - an overall impairment in the quality of life.
Pathology - The study of disease.
Trauma - An abrupt shock or injury to the body or psyche.
Medications - Substances prescribed to stimulate or inhibit a body process or replace a chemical in the body
Health - Optimal functioning with freedom from disease or abnormal processes.
Dysfunction - In between states of not healthy, but also not sick.\
Peak Performance - Maximum conditioning and functioning in a particular action.
Homeostasis - Relative constancy of the bodies internal environment.
Acute - A term that describes a condition in which the signs and symptoms develop quickly last a short duration and then disappear.
Chronic - A term that describes disease that develops slowly and lasts for a long time, sometimes for life.
Signs - Objective abnormalities that can be seen or measured by someone other than the patient.
Symptoms - Subjective abnormalities felt only by the patient.
Syndrome - Group of different signs and symptoms usually arising from a common cause.
Communicable diseases - disease that can be transferred from one person to another.
Inflammatory response - A combination of processes that attempts to minimize injury to tissues and promote healing.(characterized by pain, heat, redness, and swelling.)
Referred pain - pain felt in an area other than the source of the pain.
Pain spasm pain cycle - Steady contraction of muscles which causes ischemia and stimulates pain receptors and muscles, the pain in turn initiates more spasms.
Impimgement syndromes - Conditions that involve pathologic pressure on nerves and vessels. 2 types compression and entrapment.
Synergistic - The interaction of medication and massage to stimulate the same process of effects.
Antagonistic - When a massage produces the opposite effect sought.
Benign tumors - Tumor remains localized with in the tissue from which it arose and does not undergo malignant changes.(Benign tumors usually grow slowly)
Malignant tumors - Type of tumor that tends to spread to other regions of the body. (Cancer)
Metastasis - Migration of cancer cells.
Endangerment site - Any area of the body where nerves and blood vessels surface close to the skin and are not well protected by muscle or connective tissue; therefore Deep sustained pressure into these areas can damage these vessels and nerves.(i.e. The kidney area is included because the kidneys are loosely suspended and fat and connective tissue. Heavy pounding is contraindicated in that area.)
Referral - Client is sent to a health care professional for diagnoses and treatment of disease.
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