CHARACTERISTICS OF SHIATSU

1. Shiatsu is an overall treatment. It does not depend on signs or symptoms to work all over the body, this is because a local treatment, generally, has temporary effects over the symptoms, and it does not get to main cause that many times does not show up.
2. Shiatsu just uses hands and fingers for treatment. No machines, tools or medicines.
3. In Shiatsu, diagnosis and therapy occurs at the same time. When we apply Shiatsu pressures over the body of the patient, therapist receives information, through his or her hands and fingers: the state of skin, muscles, body temperature, etc. In this way an experienced therapist can determine the right treatment to do.
4. Shiatsu is a therapy which applies pressures with fingers and hands over the patient's body. This pressure is perpendicular and it is modulated depending on the response of the pressured zone, we have to stimulate not just the skin but also muscles, hormonal system, central and peripheral nervous system.
5. Shiatsu has no side effects because of modulated pressures with a pleasant feeling over the body. Never a pleasant ache is reached further than that.
6. Shiatsu can be applied to men, women, and children of all ages and in each case a different goal is determined. In patients of young ages we look for an improvement in their body constitution. In adults and old people we try to prevent typical illness of those ages, trying to keep young body and mind.
7. Receiving Shiatsu with regularity contributes in discovering possible body alterations. So we can prevent the accumulation of stress, and toxins that could provoke any illness.