(1) This healing method can also be successfully combined with other therapies such as hands on healing, massage, shiatsu and can even work alongside allopathic medicine.(2) For example, you may wish to investigate more about various therapies, such as shiatsu , reflexology and remedial massage, and perhaps to include with these some form of counselling or personal development work.(3) These massages fuse elements of French effleurage, Japanese shiatsu and Chinese acupressure.(4) There you will find extensive accounts of this and other forms of quackery, from Ayurveda and aromatherapy to zen shiatsu to zone therapy.(5) Reflexology is often combined with other therapies and practices, such as acupressure, shiatsu , yoga, and tai chi, and it often involves the hands and other body parts or zones, not just the feet.(6) With shiatsu the bodywork consists considerably of finger or palm pressure either into the pressure points or joints or muscles.(7) The same goes for shiatsu and acupuncture, which are only covered by specific group insurance company policy's extended health benefits.(8) The Japanese developed shiatsu in the sixth century from borrowed Chinese principles.(9) The kind of people who would once have gone in for bleeding now go in for things like reflexology and shiatsu .(10) Ann-Marie explained that each masseuse there has her specialty, whether it's shiatsu or reflexology, and that no two people are massaged the same way.(11) Similarly, shiatsu and acupressure also corroborates the opposite therapeutic significance of clockwise and counterclockwise rotation.(12) The effects of shiatsu , acupuncture, moxa, and herbal medicine are still questioned in Japan because they seem to depend upon the individual and are very difficult to replicate or to validate scientifically.(13) Western Schools described shiatsu as ‘a Japanese form of physiotherapy‘.(14) Based on Asian medical principles, shiatsu balances your flow of blood and qi, your life energy.(15) There are facials, reflexology and shiatsu , and there is a woman called Christina who works with crystals, aromatherapy and massage, also incorporating elements of kinesiology.(16) Five two-hour sessions of Swedish massage and shiatsu (a kind of massage using acupressure) didn't help either.
