Page 269 - Massage Therapy School Program

Student Handout & Quiz Answers: Self-Care Strategies
List five aspects of fitness:
1. Muscle Strength/Endurance 2. Flexibility/Stretching
3. Cardio
4. Balance
5. Body Composition
What helps to prevent burn out and injury in the massage therapist?
Bringing a body into balance through self-care
List two things that bring a body to balance:
1. Lengthening the tight muscles
2. Strengthening the weak muscles
What should we do before we stretch?
3-5 minute warm up
When do we exhale during a strength training activity? On the exertion (concentric contraction)
Name three benefits of using a topical analgesic:
1. Pain free movement
2. Relief of sore muscles and painful joints
3. Enhanced recovery from muscle sprains and strains
List three Biofreeze® Pain Reliever formats?
1. Gel
2. Roll-On
3. 360° Spray
What areas can we apply the topical to for self-care?
Neck, forearm, knees....any sore muscle or joint!
Quiz Answer Key
1. a 2. b 3. c 4. b 5. a
Self-Care Strategies – Handout & Quiz Answers
©January 2013, P05507, Rev. 1