Shiatsu is one of only a few complementary therapies featured on the National Childbirth Trust’s DVD given to all pregnant women in the UK. The Shiatsu Society was one of only 13 organisations that sponsored the DVD. We produced a short advertisement which appears on the DVD in between the documentary-style footage about how parents can prepare for the birth of their baby. The film combines inf...

BACKGROUND Burn is a tragedy that follows multiple problems in a patient including pain, anxiety and lack of confidence into medical team. This study evaluated the effect of shiatsu massage on pain intensity of burn patients. METHODS A total of 120 burn patients from Motahhari Burn Hospital and of both genders were randomly divided into 4 groups of undergoing hand massage, leg massage, both ...

BACKGROUND Burn patients experience high levels of predictable anxiety during dressing changes while anti-anxiety drugs cannot control these anxieties. The nurses can limit the side effects of medications by undertaking complementary therapies. Hand pressure massage was introduced as a technique that can reduce these anxieties. This study aimed to investigate the effect of hand pressure massage...

background burn is a tragedy that follows multiple problems in a patient including pain, anxiety and lack of confidence into medical team. this study evaluated the effect of shiatsu massage on pain intensity of burn patients. methods a total of 120 burn patients from motahhari burn hospital and of both genders were randomly divided into 4 groups of undergoing hand massage, leg massage, both han...

A recent paper by N. Jacobson' develops a theory of Jordan algebras with minimum condition which is similar to the associative theory of semisimple Artinian rings. Jacobson shows that any algebra satisfying his axioms is a direct sum of a finite number of simple algebras satisfying his axioms, and he deduces the structure of those simple algebras which contain three mutually orthogonal idempote...

Pamela Ellen Ferguson and Debra Persinger, co-authors and co-editors of Sand to Sky-Conversations with Teachers of Asian Medicine (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse; 2008), interview Marianne Steele in Germany on her shiatsu and massage therapy work in various forms of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. The interview was conducted in a series of e-mail exchanges and telephone calls during late ...

background burn patients experience high levels of predictable anxiety during dressing changes while anti-anxiety drugs cannot control these anxieties. the nurses can limit the side effects of medications by undertaking complementary therapies. hand pressure massage was introduced as a technique that can reduce these anxieties. this study aimed to investigate the effect of hand pressure massage...

BACKGROUND Burn patients experience high levels of predictable anxiety during dressing changes while anti-anxiety drugs cannot control these anxieties. The nurses can limit the side effects of medications by undertaking complementary therapies. Hand pressure massage was introduced as a technique that can reduce these anxieties. This study aimed to investigate the effect of hand pressure massag...