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Cyndi's Chapter Sixteen- Nationals

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