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Clinical Assessment Term 2

What is the term denoting the disease or syndrome the person is believed to have?

An assessment is only useful when your client is seeking care for a specific pain complaint.

As a massage therapist, why is it important to be proficient in clinical assessment?

What part of the SOAP acronym can be referred to as your "clinical impression" on the student clinic forms?

Information gathered through your observations is considered subjective data.

It is not necessary to conduct an assessment when your client already has a diagnosis.

When assessing your client, always test the __ side first, and perform what you suspect to be the most painful test _.

When conducting the assessment, the therapist's goal by the end of the subjective part of the assessment is to _______________________________. (Step 2 of the Evaluative Phase of Clinical Decision Making)

Provide an example of a means to record the client's perceived level/severity of pain.

Asking leading questions during client history intake is a god way to speed up the process.

The following sequence of events would be the most appropriate when conducting an assessment:

As an injury resolves, the area of pain decreases and becomes more localized. This is referred to as ___________.

Give three components of the assessment that might be considered objective data.

Through your intake, you believe you are assessing an injury to the medial collateral ligament of the knee. The order you would perform your functional testing would be _, then _____.

Describe the following testing position, including appropriate joint angles: Hooklying.

Describe the following testing position, including appropriate joint angles: Long seated.

Ligaments are a likely source of pain during active resisted.

Repetitive strain injuries typically present with an incidious onset.

__________ testing most specifically targets the non-contractile structures of the affected joint.

When performing an active resisted test, the joint being tested should be placed in a position, then the client is asked to perform a(n) _ contraction.

The endfeel that describes what is felt at the end of normal range of motion that is resistant to further movement by the joint capsule and/or ligaments is called _______________.

An endfeel that is "sudden and hard" and accompanied by pain is likely due to ____________.

When performing active resisted testing, a strong and painful contraction most likely indicates:

According to the Oxford Manual Muscle testing Scale, what grade would be given when a muscular contraction can overcome the force of gravity, but not any added resistance?

Endfeel is determined by applying ________________ at the end range of full and pain free passive relaxed range of motion.

Palpation can be applied with varying directional forces. What are the two primary directions that these forces can be applied in relation to the tissues being palpated?

List two things (objects of palpation) that can be evaluated through palpation.

Tingling or parasthesia would most likely be produced by _____________ impairment.

_____________ ROM/functional testing helps the therapist to understand the client's willingness to move a joint and the amoung of function at that joint.

What are four questions you would ask to gain a better understanding about your client's pain?

What are three factors that can affect posture?

Poor posture can give rise to pain.

Postural assessment is a means by which we can confirm muscular shortness and/or weakness.

Trigger point related pain is usually described as very sharp and point specific.

During an isometric contraction, you would not observe any movement at the joint.

Which joints would you need to rule out injury to before assessing the ankle joint?

Clinical Assessment Term 2

What is the term denoting the disease or syndrome the person is believed to have?

An assessment is only useful when your client is seeking care for a specific pain complaint.

As a massage therapist, why is it important to be proficient in clinical assessment?

What part of the SOAP acronym can be referred to as your "clinical impression" on the student clinic forms?

Information gathered through your observations is considered subjective data.

It is not necessary to conduct an assessment when your client already has a diagnosis.

When assessing your client, always test the ______ side first, and perform what you suspect to be the most painful test _____.

When conducting the assessment, the therapist's goal by the end of the subjective part of the assessment is to _______________________________. (Step 2 of the Evaluative Phase of Clinical Decision Making)

Provide an example of a means to record the client's perceived level/severity of pain.

Asking leading questions during client history intake is a god way to speed up the process.

The following sequence of events would be the most appropriate when conducting an assessment:

As an injury resolves, the area of pain decreases and becomes more localized. This is referred to as ___________.

Give three components of the assessment that might be considered objective data.

Through your intake, you believe you are assessing an injury to the medial collateral ligament of the knee. The order you would perform your functional testing would be _____________, __________________ then _______________.

Describe the following testing position, including appropriate joint angles: Hooklying.

Describe the following testing position, including appropriate joint angles: Long seated.

Ligaments are a likely source of pain during active resisted.

Repetitive strain injuries typically present with an incidious onset.

__________ testing most specifically targets the non-contractile structures of the affected joint.

When performing an active resisted test, the joint being tested should be placed in a __________ position, then the client is asked to perform a(n) ___________ contraction.

The endfeel that describes what is felt at the end of normal range of motion that is resistant to further movement by the joint capsule and/or ligaments is called _______________.

An endfeel that is "sudden and hard" and accompanied by pain is likely due to ____________.

When performing active resisted testing, a strong and painful contraction most likely indicates:

According to the Oxford Manual Muscle testing Scale, what grade would be given when a muscular contraction can overcome the force of gravity, but not any added resistance?

Endfeel is determined by applying ________________ at the end range of full and pain free passive relaxed range of motion.

Palpation can be applied with varying directional forces. What are the two primary directions that these forces can be applied in relation to the tissues being palpated?

List two things (objects of palpation) that can be evaluated through palpation.

Tingling or parasthesia would most likely be produced by _____________ impairment.

_____________ ROM/functional testing helps the therapist to understand the client's willingness to move a joint and the amoung of function at that joint.

What are four questions you would ask to gain a better understanding about your client's pain?

What are three factors that can affect posture?

Poor posture can give rise to pain.

Postural assessment is a means by which we can confirm muscular shortness and/or weakness.

Trigger point related pain is usually described as very sharp and point specific.

During an isometric contraction, you would not observe any movement at the joint.

Which joints would you need to rule out injury to before assessing the ankle joint?

When assessing your client, always test the __ side first, and perform what you suspect to be the most painful test _.

Through your intake, you believe you are assessing an injury to the medial collateral ligament of the knee. The order you would perform your functional testing would be _, then _____.

When performing an active resisted test, the joint being tested should be placed in a position, then the client is asked to perform a(n) _ contraction.