The intellectual process of using all mental and physical resources available to better understand, explain and predict normal and unusual natural phenomena
Centering
The ability to pay attention and maintain focus
Purpose of valid research in massage
Objectivly research the physiologic process
Rubbing
Provides manual external sensory stimulation
Massage falls into 2 catagories
Reflective and mechanical
Anxiety
a mood diorder
Dopamine
coordinates fine motor skills and is increased during massage
Serotonin
involved with satiaty and is increased during massage(stop hunger and food cravings)
Oxytocin
creates bonding- increased during massage
Corisol
responsible for sympathetic response is decreased w/in 30 minutes of a massage
Excessive sympathetic output signs
HBP, headaches, gastrointestinal problems
Hans Selye's stages of stress
"alarm state", a "resistance state", and an "exhaustion state"
Alarm
Initial activation of sympathetic nervous system
Long term HBP levels of cortisol
Fluid retention, muscle weakness, vertigo, hypersensitivity, fatigue, weight gain, and breakdown of connective tissue
Long term stress massage or Exhaustion phase
Cortisol is the focus-long, slow strokes, broad base compression and rocking for weekly appointments for 6 months
Parasympathetic patterns
Physical activity ios curtailed, digestion and elimination are increased and the bronchioles are constricted
Emergency responce to the parasympathetic system
withdrawl-intense negative experiences
Biologic oscillators
intiates entrainment
Entrainment
synchronization to an internal or external rhythm
How long into a massage is an altered state of consciousness achieved
45 minutes
State dependent memory
conditioned response pattern that can be triggered by massage
3 proprioceptors
Muscle spindles, tendon organs and joint kinesthetic receptors
Stretch reflex
a muscle contraction in response to stretching within the muscle
Post-isometric relaxation
bodywork technique that involves the tendon reflex-placing muscle in a stretched position
Crossed extensor reflex
maintains balance
Arndt-Schulz law
weak stimuli activate physiologic processes; very strong inhibit them
Re: Arndt-Schulz law: To encourage a specfic responce
gentler method
Re: Arndt-Schulz law: To shut off a specfic responce
deeper method
Laws of Facilitation
impulse has past through a certain set of neurons to the exclusion of others at one time, it will tend to take the same course of action on a future occasion. Each time it travels this path the resistance will be smaller.
Methods that affect grounding
skin rolling, gliding, petrissage
Increase arterial circulation
45 minute compression massage against the arteries proximal to the heart and moving distal
Gate control theory
painful stimuli can be prevented from reaching higher levels of the CNS by stimulating lower sensory nerves
Acupunture point Gallbladder 30
Gluteus Maximus
Triple heater meridian location corresponds with what nerve
ulnar
Chakra loctions correspond to
autonumic nerve plexues
Replication
Research experiment preformed more than once to make sure the results were not biased
First aspect of research
the question
Discovery
researcher is exploring existing information about a research question
Theory
A broad explaination that systhesizes many different, unrelated facts and findings to explain a process or phenomenon
An experimental group
a variable is present- factors that have an effect
Experiment
testing a hypothesis
In research, where is the actual experiment described
Biology Lab Midterm
