MCQ Exam Breakdown

Professional Practice

Communication

• Employ effective questioning techniques
• Knowledge of medical terminology

Professionalism

• Knowledge of relevant provincial and federal requirements.
• Knowledge of the mandate and roles of a regulatory body
• Knowledge of CMTO requirements (e.g., Policies, Standards of Practice)
• Differentiate between the role of a regulatory body and that of a professional association.
• Knowledge of quality assurance requirements
• Knowledge of professional practice documentation requirements
• Knowledge of security, confidentiality and access requirements for records
• Knowledge of standard hygiene practices
• Knowledge of standard precautions of infection control.
• Understand research processes.
• Knowledge of billing procedures

Therapeutic Relationship

• Knowledge of the purpose and components of informed consent
• Knowledge of potential sensitive areas
• Knowledge of what constitutes abuse in the client-therapist relationship.
• Explain the therapist’s responsibility for managing the client-therapist
• Knowledge of the characteristics and implications of transference and countertransference.

Assessment

• Knowledge of the components of a comprehensive case history
• Incorporate assessment findings of other healthcare practitioners into assessment planning
• Identify indications for assessing client, based on presenting symptoms and conditions.
• Knowledge of safety considerations and adaptation of assessments for client, based on presenting symptoms and conditions
• Modify assessments based upon emerging findings
• Perform vital signs assessment.

• Identify indications, safety considerations for and the components of performing the following assessments as well as differentiate between normal and abnormal findings:
  • Palpatory assessment
  • Gait assessment
  • Vital signs assessment
  • Postural assessment
  • Range of motion assessment
  • Muscle length assessment
  • Muscle strength assessment
  • Joint play assessment
  • Neurological assessment

• Identify indications, safety considerations for and the components of performing special tests
• Identify the purpose of the selected test
• Knowledge of how the selected test affects the involved tissues
• Formulate a clinical impression / differential diagnosis
• Recognize presentations of common urgent medical conditions and the appropriate responses to urgent medical events
• Knowledge of presentations that require non-urgent medical care and the appropriate responses to non- urgent medical events.

Treatment

Treatment Principles

• Knowledge of considerations that guide treatment planning, including principles of massage
• Formulate an individualized treatment plan. Incorporate relevant assessment data, research evidence, and clinical experience into development of a client centered treatment plan.
• Relate treatment components to indications and safety considerations
• Knowledge of health sciences related to client symptoms and conditions
• Knowledge of common clinical presentations
• Apply treatment modalities and techniques based on commonly-occurring symptoms and conditions
• Knowledge of appropriate draping for treatment
• Select self care based upon desired outcomes
• Knowledge of how to instruct client in self care

Massage Techniques

• Knowledge of the components, indications, safety considerations, effects, and outcomes of the following techniques:
  • stroking
  • vibration
  • petrissage
  • effleurage
  • skin rolling
  • percussive techniques
  • rocking and shaking
  • frictioning
  • muscle stripping
  • muscle approximation
  • fascial / myofascial techniques
  • joint mobilization techniques
  • lymphatic drainage techniques
  • trigger point techniques
  • Golgi tendon organ techniques

Therapeutic Exercises

• Knowledge of components, indications, safety considerations, procedures, effects, and outcomes of the following techniques:
  • range of motion exercises
  • strengthening exercises
  • cardiovascular exercises
  • stretching
  • proprioception exercises

Thermal Applications

• Perform and direct clients for thermal exercises. Knowledge of indications, safety considerations, effects, and outcomes of:
  • Heat Applications
  • Cold Applications
  • Contrast Applications

Clinical Sciences

• Incorporate and apply an understanding of :
  • Anatomy
  • physiology
  • pathophysiology
  • Pharmacology as it relates to massage therapy