Massage & Bodywork Licensing
Examination Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
Maintaining professionalism and professional boundaries may
be more challenging in which of the following settings?
A. Outdoor location
B. Practitioner's home
C. Client's home
D. Athletic event - Correct Answers ✅C, Client's home
The facet joints of the spine are also known as __________.
A. vertebral apophyses.
B. zygapophyseals.
C. zygomatic arches.
D. transverse processes. - Correct Answers ✅B,
zygapophyseals
Which of the following syndromes causes swelling of the
muscles in the lower leg, resulting in impingement of the
neurovascular structures?
A. Restless leg
B. Tarsal tunnel
C. Piriformis
D. Compartment - Correct Answers ✅D, Compartment
,Massage & Bodywork Licensing
Examination Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
Deciding whether to take on a client, who is a friend, requires
__________.
A. permission from state/local massage board.
B. professional judgement.
C. a permeable boundary.
D. the practitioner to make special accommodations. -
Correct Answers ✅B, professional judgement.
Which of the following assessments is used by a practitioner
to observe how a client walks?
A. Gait
B. Postural
C. Range of motion
D. Post-treatment - Correct Answers ✅A, Gait
Which movement will lengthen the fibers of the quadratus
lumborum on the right side of the body?
A. Hip elevation
B. Lateral flexion to the right
C. Lateral flexion to the left
D. Extension of the vertebral column - Correct Answers
✅C, Lateral flexion to the left
,Massage & Bodywork Licensing
Examination Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
Which of the following external forces is best used by the
practitioner to elongate soft tissue?
A. Twisting
B. Shearing
C. Compressive
D. Tensile - Correct Answers ✅D, Tensile
One component of proper body mechanics is to __________.
A. stabilize with the front foot while performing long strokes.
B. remain in a neutral position throughout the session.
C. utilize the back foot to support the practitioner's weight.
D. keep the feet and hips in a symmetric stance. - Correct
Answers ✅C, utilize the back foot to support the
practitioner's weight
Which movement will shorten the fibers of the rectus
abdominis?
A. Extension
B. Flexion
C. Rotation
D. Pronation - Correct Answers ✅B, Flexion
, Massage & Bodywork Licensing
Examination Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
The term pronator refers to which of the following
characteristics of muscles?
A. Location
B. Action
C. Size
D. Shape - Correct Answers ✅B, Action
A term for an overuse condition that affects the anterior or
posterior regions of the lower leg is__________.
A. shin splints.
B. gout.
C. tarsal tunnel syndrome.
D. piriformis entrapment. - Correct Answers ✅A, shin
splints
What component of the therapeutic relationship would the
practitioner make an effort to decrease, in order to encourage
a client-centered connection?
A. Fiduciary relationship
B. Disclosure
C. Confidentiality
D. Power differential - Correct Answers ✅D, Power
differential
Examination Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
Maintaining professionalism and professional boundaries may
be more challenging in which of the following settings?
A. Outdoor location
B. Practitioner's home
C. Client's home
D. Athletic event - Correct Answers ✅C, Client's home
The facet joints of the spine are also known as __________.
A. vertebral apophyses.
B. zygapophyseals.
C. zygomatic arches.
D. transverse processes. - Correct Answers ✅B,
zygapophyseals
Which of the following syndromes causes swelling of the
muscles in the lower leg, resulting in impingement of the
neurovascular structures?
A. Restless leg
B. Tarsal tunnel
C. Piriformis
D. Compartment - Correct Answers ✅D, Compartment
,Massage & Bodywork Licensing
Examination Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
Deciding whether to take on a client, who is a friend, requires
__________.
A. permission from state/local massage board.
B. professional judgement.
C. a permeable boundary.
D. the practitioner to make special accommodations. -
Correct Answers ✅B, professional judgement.
Which of the following assessments is used by a practitioner
to observe how a client walks?
A. Gait
B. Postural
C. Range of motion
D. Post-treatment - Correct Answers ✅A, Gait
Which movement will lengthen the fibers of the quadratus
lumborum on the right side of the body?
A. Hip elevation
B. Lateral flexion to the right
C. Lateral flexion to the left
D. Extension of the vertebral column - Correct Answers
✅C, Lateral flexion to the left
,Massage & Bodywork Licensing
Examination Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
Which of the following external forces is best used by the
practitioner to elongate soft tissue?
A. Twisting
B. Shearing
C. Compressive
D. Tensile - Correct Answers ✅D, Tensile
One component of proper body mechanics is to __________.
A. stabilize with the front foot while performing long strokes.
B. remain in a neutral position throughout the session.
C. utilize the back foot to support the practitioner's weight.
D. keep the feet and hips in a symmetric stance. - Correct
Answers ✅C, utilize the back foot to support the
practitioner's weight
Which movement will shorten the fibers of the rectus
abdominis?
A. Extension
B. Flexion
C. Rotation
D. Pronation - Correct Answers ✅B, Flexion
, Massage & Bodywork Licensing
Examination Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
The term pronator refers to which of the following
characteristics of muscles?
A. Location
B. Action
C. Size
D. Shape - Correct Answers ✅B, Action
A term for an overuse condition that affects the anterior or
posterior regions of the lower leg is__________.
A. shin splints.
B. gout.
C. tarsal tunnel syndrome.
D. piriformis entrapment. - Correct Answers ✅A, shin
splints
What component of the therapeutic relationship would the
practitioner make an effort to decrease, in order to encourage
a client-centered connection?
A. Fiduciary relationship
B. Disclosure
C. Confidentiality
D. Power differential - Correct Answers ✅D, Power
differential
