Name three reasons that a massage and bodywork practitioner needs to learn palpation for applications of therapeutic kinesiology?
What will be an ideal response?
A massage and bodywork practitioner practices palpation to distinguish between normal and abnormal tissues and motion, protect the client by identifying areas that should not be worked, and assess tissues in order to develop a treatment plan.
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a. connect the atria and ventricles. b. delay conduction between the atria and ventricles. c. separate the atria and ventricles. d. initiate electrical impulses.
Your patient is a 56-year-old female who is sitting on a park bench. She is conscious, though lethargic, and complaining of faintness. She states she has had a "chest cold" for the past week so had decided to stop taking her "blood pressure pills" until she felt better. She states that this morning she ingested five tablets instead of her normal one tablet dose to "catch up" after the days off
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