| Question |
Answer |
| Science | 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 | methods |
| A biased research | the researchers opinion is influenced |
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