PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED
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1) Who revoked your license and issues fines? - answer board of
massage therapy
2) Sagital plane - answer divides body into left and right
3) How do you store clean linen - answer closed closet
4) Water sanitation procedure - answer immerse object completely
5) What is used on soiled linen - answer chlorine bleach
6) Temperature of hot water that the skin can withstand - answer 100°
(98°-104°>115°)
7) Where is the sternum located - answer front of thorax
,8) What does blood draining through the lungs do - answer removes
carbon dioxide and replaces oxygen
9) Connective tissue structure supports except - answer memory scar
information
10) Circular motion using finger tips, heel and thumb - answer
circular friction
11) With doctors consent, how do you massage on edema? - answer
effleurage
12) What massage do you use to massage between joints? - answer
friction
13) What do you do when a first time client is worried about drapping?
- answer offer fully draped and or clothes on
14) Bilateral, unilateral, and lateral flexion on the neck. What muscle?
- answer scm (sternocleidomastoid)
15) Sanitation of sheets. How often? - answer after each client,
wash with soapy water, 10% bleach
16) How do you avoid rancid odors collecting in the sheets? -
answer wash daily
17) Could you practice massage with a different business? - answer
yes with floor to ceiling partition
,18) What nerve supplies the forearm, wrist, and side of thumb? -
answer radial
19) First four lumbar nerves do what? - answer lumbar plexus(hip),
femoral nerve, saphenous nerve( innervates lower back and anterior
aspect of legs)
20) A system that keeps clients/therapists safe from diseases of blood?
- answer universal precautions
21) A system of body deals with blood, veins, capillaries? - answer
cardiovascular system
22) Lymphatic (drainage) systems excrete at all places except? -
answer cranial
23) Laws(5.10.15) - answer 5 days to notify board (pmt left), 10
days to designate new pmt, after 15 days license will be suspended.
24) The apprentice license can be revoked if all happens except -
answer change smt with written notice
25) Pmt's license can be revoked if - answer abandoning premises
26) What part of the body is found in the lumbar region? - answer
lower back
27) What nerve supplies the foot and toes? - answer plantar
, 28) Sciatic nerve supplies - answer sciatic( tibial nerve, peroneal
nerve), hip, posterior leg( hamstring), foot and toe
29) Largest organ of the body - answer skin
30) Largest artery - answer aorta
31) Dark patches - answer melanoma
32) What supports the upper layer of skin? - answer dermis
33) Ball and join socket joint examples - answer shoulder, hip
34) Ligament is - answer connect bone to bone
35) Tendon is - answer connects bone to muscle, attached muscle to
bone
36) Lower back muscle - answer ql( quadratus lumborum)
37) When do you renew license? - answer 6/30 even numbered year
38) Why do you massage abdomen clockwise? - answer peristalsis
39) What is homeostasis - answer relative constancy