Massage Manipulation and Techniques: Practice Exam Part 2

What does deep effleurage do for the body?


A) Extends muscle
B) Reduces venous and lymphatic flow
C) Increases heart heart
D) Promotes venous and lymphatic flow

Which massage technique(s) passively stretch muscle?
A) Tapotement
B) All of the options
C) Petrissage
D) Vibration

Which massage movement should not be used on muscle spasm?
A) Friction
B) Effleurage
C) Petrissage
D) Vibration

Which movement is recommended when flushing out a muscle?
A) Tapotement
B) Effleurage
C) Vibration
D) Joint Movement

Massage is indicated for tenosynovitis, which inflammation of the sheath of a tendon. What techniques should be used?
A) Tapotement
B) Transverse friction
C) Effleurage
D) Vibration

What effects does massage have?
A) Decrease heart heart and skin temperature and increase respiratory rate
B) Decrease respiratory rate and skin temperature and skin temperature and decrease heart rate
C) Decrease respiratory and skin temperature and increase heart rate
D) Decrease heart rate and respiratory rate and increase skin temperature

Which massage technique stimulate muscle and cause local vasodilation?
A) Friction and vibration
B) Percussion and vibration
C) Petrissage and friction
D) All of the options

Where is petrissage most effective
A) Hands
B) Attachments
C) Tendon
D) Belly of the muscle

What massage technique involves the hands moving in opposite directions?
A) Tapotement
B) Friction
C) Vibration
D) Wringing

What happens in deep massage to relieve muscle spasm?
A) None of the options
B) Hyperemia and increase local circulation
C) Increase systemic circulation
D) Increase sensitivity of nociceptors

Which massage technique miks muscle of waste products from too much excercise?
A) Effleurage
B) Petrissage
C) Friction
D) Tapotement

What is deep friction especially beneficial for?
A) Varicose veins
B) Poliomyelitis
C) Fibrous ankylosis
D) Spastic paralysis

What is the best technique for chronic sprain?
A) effleurage
B) transverse friction
C) tapotement
D) vibration

Which two movements best relief muscle cramps?
A) effleurage and petrissage
B) friction and tapotement
C) deep effleurage and stretching
D) deep effleurage and vibration

Which are the best massage techniques to use after exercise?
A) petrissage and tapotement
B) effleurage and petrissage
C) petrissage and friction
D) tapotement infection

Which massage technique with a massage therapist used to address postural drainage?
A) effleurage and tapotement on the back
B) percussion and effleurage on the chest
C) vibration and tapotement on the back
D) friction and tapotement on the back

What is the best massage treatment for a client who has had a recent heart attack?
A) Quick paced massage
B) deep friction on the chest
C) abdominal and thoracic massage
D) effleurage and petrissage on the limbs

When applying effleurage, what should the pressure throughout the stroke be?
A) soft
B) alternate soft and hard
C) even
D) hard

For what condition she did effleurage be used?
A) torn Achilles tendon
B) a cute patellar information
C) edema of me
D) collateral ligament sprain

What is the best treatment for acute muscle strain?
A) long massage given to longitudinally to long fibers
B) long massage given transversely too long fibers
C) deep massage given longitudinally to long fibers
D) rest, ice, compression, and elevation (RICE)

What is the best massage treatment for subacute ankle information?
A) deep effleurage on the foot
B) deep effleurage on the calf
C) gentle cross-fiiber friction on the ankle
D) deep friction on the ankle

which massage technique is best suited to treat edema?
A) petrissage
B) friction
C) deep effleurage
D) light effleurage

Which structures allow muscles to slide over bony prominences?
A) muscle straps
B) bursea
C) ligaments
D) tendons

What type of exercise or joint mobilization determines muscle weakness?
A) passive
B) measurement of the circumference of a muscle
C) resistive
D) assustive

when abdominal massages performed, what position should the client be in?
A) totally still in supine
B) prone
C) supine with a pillow under the knees
D) supine with legs straight and flat

When treating bronchiectasis, how she declined the position?
A) supine with feet elevated and head down
B) prone with feet elevated and head up
C) supine with feet elevated and head up
D) prone with feet elevated and head down

What are adhesions not due to?
A) deformity
B) lactic acid
C) chronic muscle spasm
D) fibrous build

Why should the pressure above to keep his not be used
A) bladder discomfort
B) it could cause harm
C) possible damage to the liver
D) it is unethical

If working a trigger points in the deltoid, where would pain likely be referred to?
A) met behind the ear, Temple and sub scapular area
B) Side and back of the chest
C) upper arm and down the lateral side of the arm
D) medial forearm and hand

After an exercise routine off resistance with weights, one might feel sore. What would most likely be the cause of this tenderness?
A) isotonic contraction
B) eccentric contraction
C) concentric contraction
D) isometric contraction

Which method of bodywork reflects the concepts in Swedish gymnastics?
A) effleurage
B) petrissage
C) passive range of motion
D) shaking

Which of the following is an example of percussion?
A) rocking
B) checking
C) jostling
D) hacking

What is one of the techniques used to stimulate lymphatic drainage?
A) like pumping strokes
B) tapotement
C) petrissage
D) deep friction

What are post-isometric relaxation and reciprocal inhibition?
A) osteokinematic movements
B) forms of passive range of motion
C) muscle energy techniques
D) forms of Shiatsu

Which of the therapies below is DR. Randolph Stone known for?
A) polarity therapy
B) trager approach
C) Ricky
D) myofascial release

Which of the following concept describes polarity therapy?
A) universal love energy is channeled
B) precise positioning of the body directs and restores balance
C) structural imbalance is related to shortening in the myofascial system
D) all fingers and toes carry each a positive or negative charge

A client would like to support his/her massage session with selfhelp measures. Which of the choices below would best would be best to recommend?
A) craniosacral therapy and trigger approach
B) structural integration and manual lymphatic drainage
C) polarity therapy
D) reflexology and hydrotherapy

Witched technique has dripping requirements?
A) polarity therapy
B) Alexander technique
C) Swedish massage
D) Shiatsu

Which mobilization technique is best for identifying pain and limitation of the movement caused by joint one ligament injury or restriction?
A) assistive movement
B) resistive movement
C) active range of motion are (ROM)
D) passive range of motion are (ROM)

When are deep stroking movements most effective?
A) massaging a client who is thin skinned and in fragile condition
B) leaving pain in an inflamed area
C) as initial massage strokes to be established a therapeutic relationship
D) massaging a body part that is in a state of relaxation

What is the best course of action when the client has a surgical scar with pain radiating below the area?
A) massage proximal to the painful area
B) referral to a physician
C) massage with deep friction
D) massage distal to the painfull area

Using good body mechanics is essential for the effectiveness of the treatment as well as the health of the massage therapist. With this in mind, where is the center of gravity for the massage/bodywork therapist?
A) pelvis
B) legs
C) shoulders
D) knees

What is characteristic of a pressure stroke?
A) hard and deep
B) soft and light
C) follows venous was flow
D) uneven

When vibration is used for a protracted length of time, what does it resultant?
A) stimulation
B) relaxation
C) no effect
D) numbness

What is an important question for massage therapist to ask when a client reports pain during a range of motion (ROM) assessment?
A) all of the options
B) does this movement always produced pain?
C) when did the pain starts
D) where is the penetrating from and can you describe it

What type of contractions does he must perform without creating any movement of joint?
A) eccentric
B) isotonic
C) isometric
D) concentric

What type of movement is there when a massage therapist asked client to turn his/her head to the side to see how much range of motion there is?
A) passive resistive
B) active ROM
C) passive are OOM
D) active resistive

Which is the correct procedure for applying deep strokes in massage?
A) all of these options
B) apply with venous flow
C) work with the muscle relaxed
D) consider the effects of gravity

What is the name of the bodywork modality where there is an application of pressure to a reflex point on the hand or feet in order to improve circulation and/or normalize body functions?
A) Neuromuscular therapy
B) acupressure
C) reflexology
D) shiatsu

Which stretching technique reduces muscle spasm in a strange hamstring?
A) add arrhythmic bounce to the stretch
B) precede the stretch with interior pelvic tilt
C) precede keep precede the stretch with quadriceps contraction
D) contract he abductors while in full stretch

Between which two landmarks is the sciatic nerve located?
A) greater trochanter and patella
B) greater trochanter and iliac crest
C) greater trochanter an ischial tuberosity
D) greater trochanter and frontalis

What is the best procedure for turning a client?
A) Raise the drape and ask the client to turn
B) Watch as the client maneuvers with draping
C) Do not turn the client
D) Leave the room and wait for the client to call you

The client is clenching his/her hand and breathing in a shallow manner. What is this a sign of?
A) Boredom
B) Anxiety
C) Happiness
D) Love

Which massage technique is used more than any in the western world?
A) Neuromuscular
B) Lomi-lomi
C) Shiatsu
D) Swedish

When assessing range of motion, what is examined and observed?
A) Passive movement
B) All of the options
C) Active movements
D) Restricted movements

What are two inhibitory reflexes utilized in Muscle Energy Technique (MET)
A) Isometric contraction inhibition
B) Reciprocal inhibition
C) Post Isometric relaxation and concentric release
D) Reciprocal inhibition and post isometric relaxation

What is periosteal massage
A) none of the options
B) an inappropriate, illegal massage technique
C) using trigger points to reverse pathological changes in the periosteum
D) an inappropriate to massage of the genital area of the female

Which technique should be used to move from one-stroke to another?
A) friction
B) tapotement
C) effleurage
D) petrissage

What is reciprocal inhibation, what does it require the client?
A) the clients body part is moved to a point where attention is experienced and held for 10 seconds, the client contract the muscle being stretch against resistance for five seconds and then the muscles are stretched further
B) the client remained passive one massage therapist completes the stretch and movement exercises
C) the client bounces or Bobs the body part why the massage therapist uses the momentum to create to achieve the desired stretch
D) the client contracts the antagonist to the muscle in stretch allowing the stretch muscles relax

In which technique does the massage therapist firmly but gently grasp the skin and surface muscle from the finger and roll, squeeze, or ring them, then drop them back into place?
A) friction
B) percussion
C) vibration
D) petrissage

While massaging, where does the massage therapist leverage come from?
A) arms
B) hand
C) wrist
D) hips

Craniosacral therapy effects changes in which body system?

A) the sympathetic nervous system
B) The parasympathetic nervous system
C) Both the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system
D) None of the above

What is one of the effects of massage therapy?

A) increased adrenaline
B) decreased the adrenaline
C) breakdown of cellulite
D) assistance in weight-loss

How is kneading defined?

A) Squeezing, rolling and pushing
B) Moving fluids in a distal directing
C) Moving fluids in a proximal direction
D) Striking the skin and the tissue underneath