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Shiatsu



This is a Japanese body therapy where one's fingers, hand palms,
and thumbs are used to exercise pressure on certain places of the
body. This is mostly done without muscle strength but with body
weight.

Shiatsu (shi = finger, atsu = pressure) is a body therapy which has
been developed in Japan by Tokujiro Namikoshi. It has been
based on the Western knowledge of anatomy and physiology. The
thumbs, hand palms, and fingers are used trigger certain places
on the body. The masseur won't be using muscle strength in
applying pressure, but he will put his own body weight to his hands
to work on his client. In the 1950s, Shiatsu was getting more known
in the western world and in Japan by that time, the training to
become a traditional Shiatsu-therapeut was regulated by the
government.

Namikoshi's son, Toru, studied chiropractics in the US. He acquired
knowledge concerning the spine and the viscera (the internal
bodies in the abdomens and chest cavities) and enriched the
traditional Shiatsu of its father with this knowledge.

Namikoshi was not informed by any knowledge of the Chinese
medicine. Later practitioners of Shiatsu, such as Shizuto Masunaga
(a student of Namikoshi), discovered alikenesses in the locations
where on the body pressure was given with the Chinese medicine.
These corresponding points in the Chinese medicine (points on
the meridians) where used in acupuncture and acupressure.
However, in contrast to the Chinese methods of acupuncture and
acupressure where specific, defined points on the meridianen are
stimulated for treating a disorder, became in Shiatsu all along the
line, which corresponds to a meridiaan. The word meridiaan is a
term in traditional Chinese medicine and is mostly used in
acupuncture and acupressure.
The Chinese term for the meridian system is 'Jing Luo' (this can be
translated as: network of barrels or Meridianen and colaterals).

The Jing Luo can be divided into:

-Shi Er Zheng Jing Mai        (12 main meridians)
-Shi Er Jing Bie                        (12 divergent meridians)
-Shi Er Pi Bu                                (12 skin areas)
-Shi Jing Jin                                (12 tendino muscular meridians)
-Shi Wu Jing Luo                        (15 Luo barrels)
-Qi Jing Ba Mai                        (8 extra meridians)

According to the traditional Chinese medicine, energy called 'qi'
circulates through the body in several specific lines which are
linked with each other. These lines are called meridians.
Blockages in the energy flow are thought to be caused by
emotional or physical problems. The points where energy is
blocked in the meridians (acupuncture points, or 'tsubo' in the
Japanese medicine) can be treated by stimulating the specific
points using needles (acupuncture) or pressure (acupressure or
shiatsu) or in other manners.

The publication standard of cupuncture, of the world health
organisation, has a list of approximately 400 acupuncture points
and 20 meridians who link nearly all of these points.

Meanwhile there are several professional training institutes for
Shiatsu in the Netherlands.
Shiatsu techniques are carried out on specific parts of the body
with the aim of regaining the natural balance in the body, for
improving or maintaining physical health and stimulating the
healing process with disorders.

Shiatsu-therapie is mainly used to address the following disorders:

- Back pain
- Migraine or other types head ache
- Whiplash and stiffness in the neck
- Reduced mobility
- Menstruation aches
- Digestive disorders
- Asthma
- Sport injuries
- Frozen shoulder
- Hypertension