About Shiatsu Massage

Shiatsu therapy (TCM) focuses on rotating and stretching limbs, joints, and pressure points/meridians, as with traditional Chinese medicine. Shiatsu therapy uses pressure with thumbs, hands, and/ or elbows to the pressure points on the body to help circulation and thus helps improve body function.

It’s important to incorporating shiatsu therapy into an acupuncture treatment plan to achieve the best possible outcome.

Shiatsu helps with reducing stress, anxiety, depression. Relief for arthritis, injuries, insomnia, digestive disorders, neck and shoulders as well as backaches (sciatica). It can also help with coughs, colds, and other sinus and respiratory problems.

Shiatsu massage at Deschutes Acupuncture in Bend, Oregon.