Shiatsu, besides being a valid preventive practice because it helps to reinforce natural defences of the organism and to stimulate its natural vitality, is also indicated to everybody who wants to relieve disease as:
muscular aches, articular aches, and posture problems.

It also can be an alternative or help in case of:
diseases of head, neck or beck; hardening of articulations, contractures due to anxiety by sports or working activities.

Among more evident benefits there are:
Improvement of the relationships through the contact, relax of contractures or excessive tensions, improvement of carriage, strengthening of motor capacities, allowing consequences of traumas of different origins, improving knowledge and control of the own body, reinstatement of energetic balance, relief in distress diseases or states of excessive nervousness, with lowing of anxiety, better sleeping, reawakening of vital energies with an improvement of the want to do, a better humour stability, better articular mobility, a general sensation of weakness and heat, greater liveliness and clearness of mind, improvement of natural defences with preventive effect on affections and recurrent diseases; better general state of physical and psychical wellness (a help against depression) and a better tolerance of ageing diseases. In addition it is advisable during pregnancy, relieving headache and backache.

Shiatsu has been brought with a great success in motor rehabilitation clinics, in geriatric institutes, rehabilitation centres for drug addicts, in nursing homes for mental handicaps and in every sector of physical and psychical diseases; and also in gymnasiums, in yoga schools or other physical disciplines, in firms, sports clubs and a lot of other ambits where operate people "normally sane" or straight away "particularly sane", as sportsman and athletes. in every case pleasure and benefits have been considerable.