Technique Tour – Exam All Questions

In the Preface, I state that: “Pain may be described as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or ____________ tissue damage.”

Many clients report pain in the ______________.

If the client labels her experience as pain and reports it in a way consistent with pain caused by tissue damage,_________________.

Pain is always an unpleasant feeling and is conveyed to the brain by:

When asked what they considered to be the primary cause of most bodily pain and dysfunction, who said “lack of variety of movement patterns”?

With proper treatment, each cycle is usually characterized by:

Who said “the body is always working towards order”?

In the “Introduction,” I state: “For therapists working in a pain management setting, a sound ____________ is key to creating a treatment plan.”

A technique is:

It is important to ask yourself: “Are the tight muscles __________ or __________ contracted and why?”

In the “Technique Tips” section, I state: “The force applied should not create _____pain.”

Think _______when performing deep tissue myofascial work.

Visualize the______ and ______anatomy beneath your fingers.

Work at the client’s restrictive barrier but don’t______the barrier.

Effective deep tissue work requires low shoulders, locked in ________, and force coming from the ground.

What is one of the primary goals of Myoskeletal Alignment?

How is the client positioned?

Where does the therapist make contact?

How much effort should the client use when pushing their hip down to the table?

What should be done after meeting the restrictive barrier?

Which plane is the joint being mobilized in?

How is the client positioned?

Where should the finger pads contact in the beginning?

Bodywork is about

The goal is for the therapist’s fingers to slowly make their way up under the transverse process of:

This technique helps:

What is usually the primary problem with plantar fasciitis?

How many branches compose the plantar fascia?

When calcium is deposited on the ___________ of the calcaneus bone, instead of being absorbed into the bone matrix, it leaves a heel spur.

Although the spur itself is not a pain generator, the highly innervated __________
may become inflamed from pressure and friction.

In the spindle-stim maneuver, the client’s knee is flexed to ___ degrees.

Which of these is NOT a goal of the pec release technique?

Where should the client’s arm be placed?

Ida Rolf used to say “Put it where it belongs and make it ________”

What is the therapist putting back where it belongs?

In the second technique for protracted shoulder girdle, the therapist brings the client’s arm across their body to the first _____________ restrictive barrier.

The goal of the mobilization is to relieve __________ pressure on the spinal cord.

In the spinal stenosis technique the primary landmark is the ___________ spine

To begin the technique, the therapist palpates the _____ spinous process.

The client is placed in a similar position to the “_________ roll” often performed by chiropractors.

In the spinal stenosis technique, the bottom leg is moved forward and back to mobilize all joints and soft tissues of the ____________spine.

“If your back hurts, it’s your ________ fault.”

With the knee extended, the prone client raises her leg as high as possible to test how much ____ _____ she has.

The spindle-stim maneuver is meant to kick in a _____________.

The spindle-stim goal is to _________ weak gluteal muscles.

About how much time should this technique be applied per side?

Which of these is a synovial joint that should have movement?

Which of these ligaments is involved in this technique

“If you cannot feel the ______ of the coccyx, you may have coccyx dysfunction.”

Addressing a misaligned coccyx can cause a client to become very emotional, due to the vertebra’s direct attachment to the dural membrane through the ____________.

Client performs a ______________ as an enhancer to the coccyx technique.

The goal is to restore capsular flexibility and joint play to facets stuck ________.

In medical terms, the dowager’s hump is called _______________.

The therapist’s forearm hooks the fascia at _____ and glides down the lamina groove to help close the facet joints.

When the client raises their head out of the cradle, we are asking their facets to ________.

One of the primary goals for today’s manual therapist is restoration and maintenance of ________________.

The goal of this technique is to release the fibrotic ___________ hip capsule.

To begin the technique, the client’s knee is flexed to _______ .

The bracing hand should be placed __________ the ischial tuberosity.

The therapist is mainly focusing on ___________ of the hip.

The client should easily have about ___ degrees of hip extension off the table.

These techniques are performed with the client ___________.

In the upper trap elbow technique, the therapist’s elbow should glide the tissue ________ to _________.

In the pec stretches, the client’s hand is placed _____________.

In the Lat release, the client’s arm is placed __________ .

In the Wall Angel retraining exercise, the client should have ________ point(s) of contact against the wall.

In the Floor Angel retraining exercise, maximal extension should be held for ________ seconds.

The adductor magnus may be a hamstring because it is partially enclosed in a fascial bag with ___________.

While internally rotating the femur, the therapist’s palm braces the hamstrings and rolls the tissue ___________.

When the therapist reaches across and externally rotates the femur, his palm resists and rolls the tissue ______ .

In the pin and stretch technique, the therapist pins the hamstrings with constant pressure moving in a ___________ direction.

The goal of the pin and stretch technique is to pin the fascial bag and ask the muscle to move __________ in its own bag.

The spindle-stim maneuver is used because lower shoulder stabilizers are often ________.

These muscles are often overpowered by tight ___________.

In the spindle-stim technique which direction should the tissue be moved?

When assessing, the prone client raises their arm as high as possible to check for scapular _____________.

For this spindle-stim technique, the client’s arm is placed ___________.

This SI joint technique mobilizes the sacrum using the ___________ as a lever.

Therapist’s thumbs spring sacral base and ___________ along an oblique angle.

If resistance is felt while springing the ILA on one side, it indicates a restriction at the sacral base on the _________.

As the therapist brings the femur into abduction and internal rotation, it stretches the ______________.

If ilium is posterior, therapist places a flat palm on the high _______ and repeats the maneuver.

The goal of the first O-A technique is to increase head-on-neck ___________.

The inability of the occiput to flex on atlas is thought to be a common cause of chronic ________ pain.

Patterns that start at the O-A or TMJ and compensate further down are called ____________ syndromes.

When the therapist flexes and sidebends the head, he is testing movement of the ____________.

As the suboccipital space narrows, ______________ structures may become compressed.

The goal of this technique is to release the ______________ restriction of atlas on axis.

Bringing the client into extreme neck flexion locks the _________ cervical vertebrae.

During the Atlas-Axis technique, the head should be brought into ____ degrees of neck flexion.

Which of the following is not a typical cervical vertebra?

Once ____ degrees of atlas-axis rotation (in each direction) is achieved, the technique is successfully completed.

These techniques are performed with the client __________.

In this ankle technique, therapist’s hands form a web with _______and _______securing the client’s medial and lateral malleoli.

When the therapist applies traction, the webbed fingers and thumbs decompress the ______________ joint(s).

Valgus knee is often associated with ____________ of the foot

When mobilizing the knee, pain and/or ______ laxity should be noted.

DonTigny’s routine attempts to address an __________rotated ilium to relieve SI joint pain.

The therapist distracts the client’s femoroacetabular joint to_________ rotate the ilium.

The therapist compacts the client’s femoroacetabular joint to _________ rotate the ilium.

With both client’s knees flexed and feet flat on the table, therapist lifts and drags both knees medially and __________.

The client is asked to _______ the ilium using quadratus lumborum.

Neck flexion firing order should be:

Therapist observes movement of the chin during the first _____ inches of neck flexion.

If the chin ___________ or stays level, there is a substitution pattern in neck flexion.

The SCM release technique is performed with the client _______.

The client controls the SCM release by the amount of __________ they feel is tolerable

The scalene release technique is performed with the client _____________.

The therapist’s soft finger pads should come underneath the _________ border of SCM.

While rotating the client’s head and neck from neutral to extension, the fingers “scrub” the ___________ tubercles.

The therapist looks for scalene fibrosis along the anterior tubercles of ___ to ___.

If thickness or knots are palpated, client deeply inhales or tucks (and releases) as therapist holds _____________.

A hiatal hernia occurs when the stomach is pulled through the hole in the __________.

The therapist should palpate the client’s __________ process.

The therapist’s ______ and _____ fingers should slowly sink into the soft tissue space between the xiphoid and costal ribcage on the client’s left side only.

In the second technique, the therapist should hook the abdominal fascia with their ____________.

Diastasis Recti is a tearing of the __________

Before anything else, the therapist’s fingers should work______ the scar

With a ______ the therapist should rotate and check where the scar does not want to go.

If a restriction is felt, the therapist’s hand holds at the adhesive barrier and the client is asked to __________.

As the tissue releases, the therapist’s hand __________ the release to the new barrier until full movement is restored in all directions.

The goal of this routine is to decompress the __________ from the temporalis bone.

This protocol helps with jaw ____________.

These problems are often associated with __________ head posture.

The client is asked to slowly open and close the mouth to help the therapist release the temporalis and masseter muscles above and below the ___________ arch

During the history intake, make sure the client has had no jaw surgeries or

What is the most operated on disc in the body?

In the sacral base decompression technique, therapist drops his body weight into his hand with a soft but firm pressure, moving the sacrum ____________.

Joints live for ___________.

During the sacral roll, do not drop onto the ________, stay on the sacroiliac ligaments and bone.

If the _________________ are extremely tender, there is probable SI joint dysfunction

The goal of these techniques is to reduce excessive __________ curve.

The therapist initially applies ____ pounds of slow, sustained pressure.

Therapist adds an additional ____ pounds of pressure to spring the ribcage.

With excessive kyphosis, the therapist should move the tissue _________ to _________.

If the therapist encounters a flat spot, they should move the tissue_______ to _________.

Physiologically, active movement assists the healing _______ tissue to align itself along normal stress lines.

Musculotendinous structures return to their resting length within _________ following active isolated stretching

When evaluating the sternoclavicular joint, the ________ heads of the clavicle must drop down during shoulder elevation.

There are _____ motions of the sternoclavicular joint that become dysfunctional.

There are _____ motions of the acromioclavicular joint that become dysfunctional.

When the arm abducts, at _____ degrees the clavicle should start rolling.

The sternoclavicular joint provides the only firm attachment for the __________ to the axial skeleton.

Because the SC functions as a ________ joint, it can allow for clavicular motion in horizontal abduction/adduction and elevation/depression.

The SC joint always moves in the opposite direction as the _________.

Thoracic outlet syndrome, rotator cuff tears, and frozen shoulders sometimes originate with _____ joint fixations.

The goal is to treat the AC joint in _______ planes

While treating internal rotation, the therapist’s left hand braces the medial AC joint and monitors joint movement with his ________.

What are the most common restrictions at the AC joint?

While treating external rotation, the key is to maintain the arm in ____ degrees of horizontal adduction so the glenohumeral does not come into play.

AC joint restrictions typically limit end-range elevation and cross-body ____________.

Monkeys have flat backs causing them to not have a ________gait.

With lumbar hypolordosis (flat back), the therapist should move the tissue from ________ to _______.

__________ used to say, “dig a hole to allow the spine a place to come back to.”

When warming up the tissue, the therapist should evaluate for __________

The lumbar facet opening techniques are done with the client __________.

When the therapist asks the client to flex their knees, this causes the _______facets to open.

The key is isolating to the dysfunctional segment and dragging the inferior vertebra _____ as the hip is hyper-flexed.

The client will assume a _______ position to assess for a lumbar joint that is not closing

If nothing is felt during the maneuver, try moving the thumbs closer to the _________________.

A structural or fixed scoliosis __________.

On the convex side of the curve, where there is a prominent ribcage and scapula, the therapist should move the tissue __________ to __________.

On the concave side of the curve, where the hypertonic tissues are bowing the spine, the therapist should move the tissue from __________ to __________.

During the seated correction, the therapist should rotate the client’s torso in the _________ direction of the scoliotic curve.

With the client supine, the therapist should try to create length in the __________ fascia.

During the cross-arm technique, what muscle(s) are we stretching?

With the head sidebent and rotated to the same side, the therapist is primarily stretching ___________.

With the head sidebent to one side and rotated to opposite side, the therapist is able to stretch ______________.

During the trunk stretch, the therapist and client grasp each other’s __________.