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NeurologicDiseases
Diseases of the Nervous System for Massage
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Neuralgia | nerve pain |
| Neuritis | Inflammation of a nerve |
| Neuropathy | weakness in a distal area of a peripheral nerve as a result of trauma or degeneration. |
| Dementia | overall deficiency in memory storage, time and space orientation, language processing, problem solving & planning, and executing voluntary movements. |
| Referred pain | pain felt in a region of the body distant from the site of tissue damage or injury |
| Hydrocephalus | increased CS fluid surrounding the brain |
| Meningitis | inflammation of the meniges, resulting blockages cause increase in intracranial pressure; Do not touch client |
| Encephalitis | inflammation of the brain, usually infected by mosquito or tick bite, contraindicated |
| Seizures | sudden, involuntary, possibly violent contractions of skeletal muscles and loss of consciousness. deep tissue or painful massage is contraindicated. |
| Stroke (Cardiovascular accident) | brain damage resulting from ischemia to an area of the brain |
| Poliomyelitis | inflammation of grey matter of spinal cord, can cause paralysis |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig disease) | loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and lower cranial nerves causing skeletal muscle weakness and eventually death |
| Multiple sclerosis | progressive demyelination of neurons in CNS. Faulty nerve conduction causes weakness & uncoordination |
| Huntington disease | progressive genetic, characterized by rapid writhing contortions or rigidity of muscles in hands, arms trunk & face |
| Spina Bifida | failure of vertebral arch to close during fetal development |
| Thoracic outlet syndrome | compression of brachial plexus or subclavian artery by scalene muscles or extra rib |
| Carpal tunnel syndrome | compression on median nerve from tenosynovitis of the flexor retinaculum in the wrist leads to pain, parasthesia, anesthesia, or diminished sensation in the hand. |
| Epilepsy | characterized by long term disturbances in the brain that lead to seizures, cause by increased activity in the brain. |
| Alzheimer disease | genetic, progressive, characterized by dementia and loss of memory, character fragmentation |
| Sciatica | neuritis of the sciatic nerve, caused by muscle impingement or infection |
| Bell palsy | neuritis of the facial nerve, causing paralysis of on side of face, can be temporary |
| Trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux) | degeneration or compression of the trigeminal nerve with neuralgia or pain, avoid facial region, massage nerve root area |
| Cerebral palsy | permanent nonprogressive motor disabilities, lesions affect motor areas of the brain resulting in impairment of motor movement or mental impairment |
| Headache | pain in the head or upper neck |
| Tension headache | compression of blood vessels and nerves because of sustain contraction of muscles of neck and scalp. |
| Migraine (vascular headache) | vasoconstriction followed by vasodialation of cerebral blood vessels, intense throbbing pain, flashing lights, blind spots, double vision, light sensitivity |
| Parkinson disease | degenerative disorder effects motor neurons in the substantia nigra in the midbrain, tremors, bradykinesia, tiredness, weakness, poor balance, mask-like face, slow speech, shuffling gait |
| Reflex sympathetic dystrophy | chronic severe burning pain, pathologic changes in skin and bone, excessive sweating, swelling, extreme sensitivity to touch, often result of high impact injury. |
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