Getting Shiatsu Massage Therapy on 4th Street Downtown St. Petersburg

If you’re craving a massage you can get massage therapy on 4th Street Downtown St. Petersburg. That’s convenient for everyone within St. Pete and even Tampa 33607. One of the therapeutic massage techniques very beneficial to health is shiatsu.Shiatsu massage originated from Japan even before 1000 AD, and was traditionally done by women and the blind. It is one of the hands-on medical treatments that already existed in Japan long before the Chinese brought them acupuncture and tuina.The term shiatsu comes from the Japanese words for finger and pressure. The fingers, thumb and palm are used to apply pressure on energy meridians in the body. It also involves stretching, grasping, vibrating, rolling and brushing techniques.Shiaatsu developed into two styles in Japan. One is based on western anatomy and physiology while the other is based on traditional Chinese medicine. The former was established by Tokujiro Namikoshi while the latter was founded by Shizuto Masunaga.Masunaga identified shiatsu meridians in the body based on acupuncture meridians in the arms and legs. He believed that shiatsu massage should cover the entire body with a sensitive practitioner focusing on the energy distributions therein, both connecting to and supporting the patient. He espoused the combination of diagnosis and treatment, where one hand “listens” to the body while the other hand acts on it.According to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, external factors can invade the body to cause serious illness, but emotional disharmony within a person could also surface and cause illness in the physical body and the person’s behavior. The same illness or symptoms may have different causes and unless the correct cause is identified, healing will not be complete. Diagnosis is, therefore, considered very important in shiatsu.“Listening” to the body in shiatsu terms means using not just the palms, fingers and thumbs but all sensory organs of the practitioner in detecting any disharmonies in the patient’s body energy. The practitioner assesses the patient’s outward appearance and checks wrist pulses as well as the state of the tongue. He palpates the abdominal area and the back, feeling for stiffness or slackness that may show signs of the state of energy distribution in the body. He evaluates the patient’s odor, observes the sounds made by the body and sifts through the patient’s responses to find psychological factors that may be contributing to the disharmony.Shiatsu massage treats the body as a whole, stimulating the body’s natural healing ability and the immune system in order to restore the normal functions of the circulatory system, nervous system, skeletal system, muscles and internal secretions. Beyond that, it also aims to balance and align the mind and body in harmony.To practice shiatsu in Japan, practitioners need to be licensed by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. To be licensed, they first need to have studied and passed a three-year program of training in a university or college authorized by the Ministry and passed a national examination.Shiatsu has spread throughout the world and various countries have established their own shiatsu licensing requirements. Most require two to three years of specialized study with clinical practice, plus oral and written examinations covering both western anatomy and physiology and traditional Chinese medicine.In the United States, the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA) is working with the National Certification Council for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) to achieve standardization in educational requirements for Asian bodywork therapy, including shiatsu. They are introducing mandatory standardized national board certification requiring primary discipline training, training in anatomy and physiology, traditional Chinese medicine training, elective coursework and student clinic training.Aside from shiatsu massage therapy, you can also get Swedish massage, deep tissue massage, sports massage and even pregnancy massage on 4th Street Downtown St. Petersburg.

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