Chapter 14: Clinical Massage: Pain, Trigger Points, Fascia, Orthopedic Assessments,
and Applications Methods
Salvo: Massage Therapy
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which term means the use of techniques to safely work with clients who have diseases,
disorders, or injuries?
a. Reflexology
b. Shiatsu
c. Lymphatic massage
d. Clinical massage
ANS: D
Clinical massage is the use of massage techniques to safely work with patients who have
diseases, disorders, or injuries.
2. Which term refers to restoration of an individual to a normal or near normal condition after a
disabling disease or injury?
a. Orthopedics
b. Remission
c. Physical rehabilitation
d. Maximum medical improvement
ANS: C
Physical rehabilitation is the restoration of an individual to a normal or near normal condition
after a disabling disease orTinEjSurTy.BANKSELLER.COM
3. What does maximum medical improvement mean?
a. The client’s treatment has just started working
b. The client’s condition is unlikely to improve
c. A standard the client wishes to reach
d. A standard the physician wishes the client would reach
ANS: B
Maximum medical improvement (MMI) is the point in the rehabilitative process when the
client’s condition is unlikely to improve, and no further recovery is expected; it occurs when
treatment reaches a plateau.
4. Insurance companies are most likely to cover massage treatments received for which
situation?
a. Soreness from recreational activities
b. Stress from busy lifestyle
c. Cellulite removal
d. Personal injury
ANS: D
Insurance companies are more likely to cover massage therapy expenses related to personal
injury (PI) claims, automobile medical claims, automobile liability claims, and worker’s
compensation claims.
, 5. Which documentation does an insurance company require to process claims?
a. Professional liability certificate
b. Diagnostic code
c. Profit and loss statement
d. Medical release
ANS: B
Insurance companies require diagnostic codes and procedural codes to process insurance
claims.
6. Which term means an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or
potential tissue damage?
a. Pain
b. Psychosis
c. Rehabilitation
d. Assessment
ANS: A
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage.
7. Which term means stimuli that are damaging or threaten damage to normal tissues?
a. Modulation
b. Nociception
c. Contraction
d. Rehabilitation
ANS: B
Nociception is the term for stimuli that are damaging or threaten damage to normal tissues.
8. Who proposed the gate control theory of pain?
a. Einstein
b. Descartes
c. Melzack and Wall
d. Watson and Crick
ANS: C
The gate control theory of pain was proposed by Melzack and Wall in 1965.
9. Which concept involves synthesis of perception, emotional states, and past experiences?
a. Trigger point theory
b. Central sensitization
c. Body–self neuromatrix
d. Gate control theory
ANS: C
According to Melzack, pain is one of several expressions or outputs produced by a cerebral
network called the body-self neuromatrix after synthesizing various inputs including
perceptions, emotional states, and past experiences.
and Applications Methods
Salvo: Massage Therapy
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which term means the use of techniques to safely work with clients who have diseases,
disorders, or injuries?
a. Reflexology
b. Shiatsu
c. Lymphatic massage
d. Clinical massage
ANS: D
Clinical massage is the use of massage techniques to safely work with patients who have
diseases, disorders, or injuries.
2. Which term refers to restoration of an individual to a normal or near normal condition after a
disabling disease or injury?
a. Orthopedics
b. Remission
c. Physical rehabilitation
d. Maximum medical improvement
ANS: C
Physical rehabilitation is the restoration of an individual to a normal or near normal condition
after a disabling disease orTinEjSurTy.BANKSELLER.COM
3. What does maximum medical improvement mean?
a. The client’s treatment has just started working
b. The client’s condition is unlikely to improve
c. A standard the client wishes to reach
d. A standard the physician wishes the client would reach
ANS: B
Maximum medical improvement (MMI) is the point in the rehabilitative process when the
client’s condition is unlikely to improve, and no further recovery is expected; it occurs when
treatment reaches a plateau.
4. Insurance companies are most likely to cover massage treatments received for which
situation?
a. Soreness from recreational activities
b. Stress from busy lifestyle
c. Cellulite removal
d. Personal injury
ANS: D
Insurance companies are more likely to cover massage therapy expenses related to personal
injury (PI) claims, automobile medical claims, automobile liability claims, and worker’s
compensation claims.
, 5. Which documentation does an insurance company require to process claims?
a. Professional liability certificate
b. Diagnostic code
c. Profit and loss statement
d. Medical release
ANS: B
Insurance companies require diagnostic codes and procedural codes to process insurance
claims.
6. Which term means an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or
potential tissue damage?
a. Pain
b. Psychosis
c. Rehabilitation
d. Assessment
ANS: A
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage.
7. Which term means stimuli that are damaging or threaten damage to normal tissues?
a. Modulation
b. Nociception
c. Contraction
d. Rehabilitation
ANS: B
Nociception is the term for stimuli that are damaging or threaten damage to normal tissues.
8. Who proposed the gate control theory of pain?
a. Einstein
b. Descartes
c. Melzack and Wall
d. Watson and Crick
ANS: C
The gate control theory of pain was proposed by Melzack and Wall in 1965.
9. Which concept involves synthesis of perception, emotional states, and past experiences?
a. Trigger point theory
b. Central sensitization
c. Body–self neuromatrix
d. Gate control theory
ANS: C
According to Melzack, pain is one of several expressions or outputs produced by a cerebral
network called the body-self neuromatrix after synthesizing various inputs including
perceptions, emotional states, and past experiences.
