Content Outline

This course follows the textbook, plus a multiple-choice test and evaluation form at the end of the study guide.

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Learning Objectives

1. List the eight most common causes of cellular injuries in response to stress.
2. List and describe five most common psychological defense mechanisms.
3. Define: adhesion, antibodies, autoimmune, benign, communicable disease, contamination, edema, erythema, fibrosis, infection, inflammation, malignant, metastasis and psychoneuroimmunology.
4. List the most important parts of the CDC's Standard Precautions for massage therapists and bodyworkers.
5. Define and give examples of immune-deficient conditions and hyperimmunity conditions.
6. Define: lymphedema, heart failure, stroke, COPD, hypertension, heart attack, asthma, ischemia, PVD and embolus.
7. Recognize the appropriate actions in response to signs of heart attack.
8. Identify five contraindications relating to the cardiopulmonary system and five cardiopulmonary signs and/or symptoms that are reasons to refer the client to a primary care provider.
9. Identify the differences between acute, chronic, intractable, phantom, localized, radiating, referred and projected pain.
10. List the two main causes of pathology in the nervous system.
11. Recognize the primary caution when working with a person who is taking narcotic pain medication.
12. Identify at least five contraindications for therapeutic actions in relation to the musculoskeletal system.
13. Identify at least five musculoskeletal signs and/or symptoms that are reasons to refer the client to a primary care provider.
14. Identify commonly used medications for musculoskeletal conditions, and their precautions related to massage and bodywork.
15. Recognize the ABCDs of malignant melanoma.
16. Identify three integumentary signs or symptoms that are reasons to refer the client to a primary care provider for evaluation.
17. Identify and compare the differences between hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.
18. List the primary danger from diabetic crisis and recognize what to do for a client who shows those signs.
19. Define supine hypotensive syndrome and identify how to prevent it during bodywork.
20. Identify three signs and/or symptoms from the genitourinary system that are reasons to refer the client to a physician.
21. Identify how to prepare for massage therapy or bodywork in the hospital and home care environments, including the items to bring with you.
22. Identify the most important contraindications for working with seriously ill people.
23. Define accountability, ethics, ethical dilemma, ethical dissonance, liability, consent, referral, transference, counter transference, confidentiality, and dual relationship.
24. Identify at least three common ethical considerations that relate to massage or bodywork practice.
25. Identify the body fluids that are most likely to transfer communicable diseases and list the most important parts of the CDC’s Standard Precautions for massage therapists and bodyworkers.
26. Identify the common ethical dilemmas that occur when working with people in illness care environments and the strategies that can be used to reduce or cope with them.
27. Achieve at least 70% correct on the open-book test.

Sample Text

“When healthy tissue becomes active, it releases a number of metabolites which dilate the local arterioles. This dilation allows more nourishment to come into the tissue and facilitates the removal of wastes. However, the smooth muscles inside the arterioles' walls are also affected by the sympathetic nerves. These nerves cause contraction of the smooth muscles inside the arterioles' walls. The more sympathetic impulses that occur, the more intense the constriction becomes. Conversely, the fewer the sympathetic impulses, the more relaxed and dilated the arterioles become. (See Illustration 45)”

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Sample Test Question

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You'll take the tests in this package separately and receive 1 certificate for each test. If these courses were purchased separately, their normal enrollment costs are shown below,