MASSAGE: PERCUSSION
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Define:
TAPPING - Tips of fingers alone, one or all of the fingers, one or both hands
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SPATTING - Palmar surface of extended fingers held rigid
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CLAPPING - Whole hand, palmar surface shaped as to trap air when it contacts skin, explosive loud sound
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HACKING - Ulnar border of hand alone contacts skin, fingers slightly apart and loose, successively comining in contact giving a peculiar vibratory effect
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BEATING - Palmar surface half-closed fist, dorsal terminal phalanges, heel of hand
- Type of percussion used on fleshy parts when strong surface stimulation is desired
- CLAPPING
- Type of percussion used chiefly on head and chest
- TAPPING
- Type of percussion used chiefly on low back & fleshy part of thighs. Powerful means of stimulating genito-urinary system.
- BEATING
- Type of percussion used chiefly on chest, spine, head. May be employed on any part
- HACKING
- Form of percussion most frequently employed. Should be used before other procedures when surface is cold, or when patient is chilly.
- SPATTING
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T or F
The effect of percussion is increased by not using oil - False
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T or F
As a rule in performing percussion, the hand should strike the body parallel to the muscle fibers - False
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T or F
Percussion to any part of the body gives rise to reflex activities - True
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The French term for percussion is Effluerage - False
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Name the reflex area affected by:
Hacking & Spatting -
Interscapular
Plantar -
Name the reflex area affected by:
Hacking & Percussion - Cremasteric
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Name the reflex area affected by:
Tapping, Hacking, Spatting, Clapping - Abdominal
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Name the reflex area affected by:
Tapping, Hacking, Spatting, Beating - Epigastric
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Name the reflex area affected by:
Hacking, Spatting, Beating - Gluteal
- Vibration technique useful for sclerosis:
- Hacking of the spine
- Vibration technique useful in unresolved pneumonia, adhesions from chronic pleurisy, and in promoting absorption in cases of serious effusion into pleural cavity:
- Hacking of the chest
- Vibration technique valuable in treating atony of the bladder, impotence or sterility, loss of sexual vigor:
- Beating of the sacrum
- These measures act most powerfully in influencing the function of all the viscera of the trunk, as well as the genital organs:
- Hacking & beating of the spine
- When performing point and/or reflex percussion, Kellogg recommends the use of:
- Tapping & Hacking
- Strong percussion produces what response?
- hyperemia & vascular paralysis
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Define the reflex area:
C6-8, T1 - Interscapular
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Define the reflex area:
S1-5 - Plantar
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Define the reflex area:
T8-12 - Abdominal
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Define the reflex area:
L4-5 - Gluteal
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Define the reflex area:
T5-7 - Epigastric
- Sole of foot is located in which reflex area?
- Plantar
- Sides of abdomen in mammary line are located in which reflex area?
- Abdominal
- Inner portion of upper half of thigh is located in which reflex area?
- Cremasteric
- Fleshy portions of hips is located in which reflex area?
- Gluteal
- Space between scapula is located in which reflex area?
- Interscapular
- Sides of chest, between 4 & 6 ribs, are located in which reflex area?
- Epigastric
- In percussion, blows are administered how?
- using two hands in alternation
- Point percussion is generally used where?
- Over muscle motor points
- Light percussion upon the skin produces what effect?
- pallor
- Therapeutic application of percussion include
- chronic sciatic and lumbago
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Rheumatism is a therapeutic application for percussion. - False
- Which massage technique is best for treatment of skin conditions?
- fulling
- Light percussion causes constriction or dilation of superficial vessels?
- constriction
- Name 3 therapeutic applications for percussion:
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coldness of extremities
constipation
passive congestion of liver and spleen