Shiatsu Back Massager

I have a back massager and I can begin to tell you how much I truly love it. I didn't really think it would be effective at first. Sure, I am a professional, which is another way of saying that I spend the majority of my day sitting on my butt, which is hard on my back. Sometimes when I get home, I'm so sore that I they don't want to sit anymore, but I didn't really think a back massager would make all that much of a difference. My wife has great hands and does a nice chap is a back massager, which always make me feel better. You think that have and now, but it wasn't.

So when I got a little wooden back massager for Christmas, the kind with rollers on it, I thought it was just a little present from a nephew who knew nothing about me. I couldn't have been more wrong, and man was I surprised. That back massager was nothing short of miraculous. I had my wife use it on my back while applying firm and uniform pressure throughout, and I can't tell you how much it alleviated the nagging aches and pains my aches and pains. In no time at all I felt like I was a kid again. Of course that wasn't enough so I wanted more. I wanted something more elaborate, more deluxe, which could massage my whole back at once. You know how that works, if a little is good then a lot is much better.

As a Christmas present, my wife got me a heated shiatsu back massager chair , and it worked like a charm. It had all kinds of features – the shiatsu which you could set up to do different parts of your back, it could come for the entire pack or isolate sections. Rollers which would do the same thing, gently but firmly rolling up and down my spine. It also contained a seat that vibrated as well as the back to really shake things up. Role in the heating pads and he really had an awesome combination that felt great.

The the great thing about it is that I don't need to lie down to take advantage of it, I can keep sitting up after work, and my wife appreciates being off the hook is well because he no longer needs to give me back massages. The only noise that it makes it is a low and gentle hum. And best of all, I can use it while sitting in my favorite chair, checking out the game on TV instead of coming home and having to lie in bed. If you suffer from any kind of stress, I can't recommend strongly enough that you get a back massager chair. Believe me – you'll be glad that you did it.

Shiatsu Massage

Shiatsu massage is a phrase one hears and I have used it myself when asked what I do; but should it be called massage at all? What is Shiatsu?

The definition of massage on Wikipedia is

…the practice of applying structured or unstructured pressure, tension, motion, or vibration…to the soft tissues of the body…to achieve a beneficial response.

Shiatsu by this definition is a massage technique since it employs pressure to promote a healing response. A Shiatsu practitioner will also stretch the body and rotate joints and is sometimes called a Japanese physiotherapy.

Apart from this physical aspect there is more to Shiatsu that makes it more than a massage technique. The focus of a Shiatsu practitioner is on the body/mind of the client. I sensed this last year when I felt that my work was too physical and not up to the standard of the practitioners who have given Shiatsu to me.

At the start of a treatment the practitioner will spend some time talking to a client and understanding the movement of physical, emotional and spiritual energies in the body. The physical part of the Shiatsu session is simply a way of allowing those aspects of a person to work together as one unit. It is aim of Shiatsu to let clients feel themselves as a whole person and not a collection of aching body parts.

If one is talking to a potential client then massage is a term that I would use. Physiotherapy is too medical a word and some people can find talk of Ki energy flow too mystical until they experience it. Historically the word massage has suffered an image problem too but it is increasingly seen as a mainstream relaxation therapy. Promoting Shiatsu as stress busting is fine since healing cannot take place until the client is relaxed.