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. Achieve at least 70% correct on the open-book test.

Sample Text

“If the interruption in blood flow is temporary and minor, the damage is called ischemia. If cells die, the damage is called an infarct. An infarction is an area of tissue that dies when it does not receive enough blood flow. An infarction can occur in any body tissue, but it occurs most often in the brain and the heart due to their immediate need for large amounts of oxygen and nutrients.” from Holistic Pathology for Body-Centered Therapists (2002) by Sharon Burch, MSN, NCTMB

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Sample Test Question

A temporary and minor interruption of blood flow is called _____________ and a(n) ___________ is an area of tissue that dies due to insufficient blood supply.

a.  ischemia; infarction

b.  infarction; ischemia

c.  CVA; infarction

d.  infarction; CVA 

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