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Massage Assessment
Assessment of Soft Tissue Conditions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ASSESMENT | aid in identifying stage of healing,better at ruling out than identifying specific tissues involved in injury, determines if massage is appropriate |
| special tests | tests specific tissues for specific types of injury |
| order of physical assesment tests | postural assesment, arom,prom,mlt,rit,special tests,palpation |
| muscle pain | cramping,dull,aching,hard to localize |
| ligament,joint capsule pain | dull, aching |
| bone pain | deep, nagging, dull |
| fracture pain | sharp, severe |
| vascular pain | throbbing,difuse, hard to localize,reffered |
| nerve root pain | sharp,bright,lightning like |
| terminal nerve pain | sharp, bright, lightning-like |
| autonomic nerve pain | burning, pressure-like, stinging, aching |
| acute pain | arom>pain felt thru most of rom, rom severely limited Prom>pain felt thru most of rom,rom severly limmited, end feel> empty,early muscle spasm |
| sub-acute pain | arom>pain felt near limit of rom, near normal rom,prom-passive movements that stress injured structure are limmited & painful, end feel >late muscle spasm means instability in joints |
| chronic pain | arom>nearly or normal rom, pain free, may be fibrosis restriction, end feel > late muscle spasm may mean instability to joint |
| special test for plantar fascitis | dorsiflexion of ankle, extension of toes, palpation of fascia, especially at calcaneal attachment,fdl |
| specail test for achilles tendonitis | passive dorsiflexion, resisted plantar with palpation of tendon |
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