Shiatsu Massage is a traditional Japanese massage technique that applies pressure using only the fingers, thumbs and palms on specific points of the body relating to the nervous system.
In Zen Shiatsu, the diagnosis proceeds through several stages. The practitioner makes use of signs in the subject's superficial appearance and odor, in the sounds he or she makes and in the sensations felt by touch.
The Shiatsu massage practitioner also examines the patient's pulses in the wrists (there are others in the body) and the appearance of the tongue, and looks for other evidence of contributing factors in how the subject answers questions about health and a particular problem. The Shiatsu practitioner will also feel for energy imbalances related to the internal organs in and around the abdomen and view signs of these in the back.
In traditional Chinese medicine, illness comes from an invasion of external factors and/or from emotional disharmonies within. External factors may eventually penetrate to the interior of the body and cause serious illness, just as internal factors move to the exterior and cause problems at the surface of the body and in the subject's behaviour. Thus similar symptoms might have different causes. The diagnostic skill is to identify the sources of disharmony and to try and eliminate them. In Zen Shiatsu massage, the diagnosis is critical to the therapy's effectiveness.
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