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Published in Michael Weir, Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine, 2023
From 1 April 2019 the Federal government excluded from private health insurance sixteen modalities: Alexander technique, aromatherapy, Bowen therapy, buteyko, feldenkrais, western herbalism, homeopathy, iridology, kinesiology, naturopathy, pilates, reflexology, rolfing, shiatsu, tai chi and yoga. Remedial massage/myotherapy, exercise physiology, Chinese medicine, and acupuncture were not impacted by this change. The Natural Therapies Review 2019–20 under the Natural Therapies Review Expert Advisory Panel is currently reviewing that decision to determine if this change should be repealed.
Complementary Therapies
Published in Margaret O’Connor, Sanchia Aranda, Susie Wilkinson, Palliative Care Nursing, 2018
Shiatsu can be of benefit in promoting quality of life in persons receiving palliative care, with significant improvements in energy levels, relaxation, confidence, symptom control, clarity of thought, and mobility (Cheesman, Christian & Cresswell 2001).
Key conceptualizations in more-than-representational health geographies
Published in Gavin J. Andrews, Non-Representational Theory & Health, 2018
In another CAM-focused inquiry, Andrews (2004) describes the practices therapists employ that concentrate their clients’ minds on specific body parts and on their ‘metaphysical energy’. A shiatsu therapist in this study, for example, commented: I talk to them and get them to be attentive to places of touch. I encourage them to try and feel certain places within their body … You try and make the client see his or her body from within for them to connect with their own healing power and feel the energy around their body. They concentrate on the abdomen for deeper breathing, the legs for more grounding earth energy, chest to contact feelings and emotions, back for letting go of tensions.(2004:312)
Effects of pericapsular soft tissue and realignment exercises for patients with osteoarthritis of the hip and Harris Hip Score below 60 points
Published in Current Medical Research and Opinion, 2022
Kazuo Hayashi, Toshiharu Tsunoda, Yuki Tobo, Fumiaki Ichikawa, Takayuki Shimose
To conduct a clinical trial examining this issue in patients with severe hip OA, it is important for patients to experience an improvement from baseline at an early stage. In addition, we propose that improvement at baseline is important for encouraging patients with severe hip pain to avoid or postpone surgery. Between 1998 and 2006, we treated patients with hip OA by engaging them in stretching and open kinetic chain exercise to strengthen the hip abductor of the gluteus medius. However, in patients with an HHS below 60 points, performing these exercises did not improve symptoms or function. These findings were similar to the results reported by Bennell et al.5. Therefore, we adopted an alternative exercise, which was developed in Shiatsu practice in Japan (Supplementary Appendix 1). We observed that some patients with severe hip OA exhibited improvement of symptoms at an early stage after performing this alternative exercise. We started using this exercise as a pericapsular soft tissue and realignment (PSTR) exercise (Supplementary Appendix 2) in 2007 and have performed this exercise between 2007 and 2010. We found that pelvic realignment exercises were not included in a previous Cochrane review of studies3. We confirmed the effects of this exercise for patients with hip OA in a retrospective study of 1077 cases from 2011 to 201416. The results revealed that many patients with severe hip OA experienced an improvement, such as pain at baseline, and pelvic realignment exercise was most effective for this improvement because it reduced walking instability most effectively. The pelvic realignment exercises were not included, even in a digital self-management program reported by Dahlberg et al.10.
Treatment of sleep disturbance following stroke and traumatic brain injury: a systematic review of conservative interventions
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Alex Lowe, Mark Bailey, Terry O’Shaughnessy, Vladimir Macavei
In the final article, hand self-shiatsu was performed before sleep in seven adults with sleep disturbance and a history of sport-related concussion within the previous six months [40]. The protocol involved participants applying firm fingertip pressure to specific points on the hand and was completed in less than 15 min. PSQI scores were assessed at baseline, in addition to a week of actigraphy, and follow-up was gathered over weeks four and eight. Mean PSQI scores reduced significantly (baseline 10.6, follow-up 7.1 and 5.3, X2(0.05,2) = 8.22, p = 0.016), but there was no significant difference in actigraphy measures.