NY STATE EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
1. Which stroke is best for Spastic Paralysis?
a. tapotement
b. friction
c. effleurage - Correct Answer ✅c. effleurage
2. Which carpal is palpated at the medial end of the wrist
crease?
a. scaphoid
b. pisiform
c. trapezium - Correct Answer ✅b. pisiform
3. What action does Psoas Major, Biceps Femoris, and
Popliteus have in common?
a. flexion
b. extension
c. abduction
d. adduction - Correct Answer ✅a. flexion
4. Where does the short head of Biceps Brachii attach?
,NY STATE EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
a. coracoid process
b. coronoid process
c. acromion process - Correct Answer ✅a. coracoid process
5. To treat Edema in the lower extremity, one would work in
which direction? (NOT direction of stroke) which segment do
you work first? (when they talk about direction they use the
word centripetal)
a. distal to proximal
b. proximal to distal
c. medial to lateral
d. lateral to medial - Correct Answer ✅b. proximal to distal
6. What is the best stroke for treating Varicose Ulcers?
a. deep effleurage
b. finger kneading from the edge of the wound towards the
periphery
c. finger kneading from the periphery in towards the edge of
the wound - Correct Answer ✅c. finger kneading from the
periphery in towards the edge of the wound
,NY STATE EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
7. If you contract Tibialis Anterior and Tibialis Posterior
together, what would be the action?
, NY STATE EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
10. Which initiates the sliding of the filaments in muscle
contraction?
a. amino acids
b. sodium ions
c. potassium ions
d. calcium ions - Correct Answer ✅d. calcium ions
11. According to New York State law, where do you keep your
advertising records?
a. in your files (for a year)
b. at the New York State Board of Massage
c. there's no reason to keep advertising records - Correct
Answer ✅a. in your files (for a year)
12. What can you legally do as far as limiting your practice is
concerned?
a. massage only children
b. massage only women
c. massage only the elderly
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