The massage is a technique used to relieve aches and blemishes. This only technique is not a therapy, but it takes part in physiotherapy and alternative medicine. There are a lot of kinds, with different finalities: relaxing, muscular, sports, anti-dolour, aesthetic.
The meaning of the word "massage" is derived from Arab "mass": to touch and from Greek "maggely": mixture - cure.

With the word massage is defined a whole of actions practised with hands, finalised to stimulate answers of our body. The fundamental techniques of massage are: skimming, friction, kneading, pressure and vibration.

In SHIATSUGENOVA, besides shiatsu treatment, are practised some of other kinds of Massage:






Lymph drainage
It uses handily pumping, which stimulates lymphatic circulation helping reduction of swellings, elimination of toxins and liquids in excess. It's useful to reduce heavy feeling on inferior limbs, to eliminate swelling of face and to promote natural immunity defences of the organism.






Haemo lymphatic massage
It re-establishes blood and lymph circulation, in peripheral zones also, removing toxins and lactic acid from muscles and skin, it re-oxygenates tissues, it improves trophysm of muscular masses and skin, having an anti-ageing action. It's particularly useful to fight and prevent the evolving of the steps of formation of cellulites or localised adiposities.






Aesthetic massage
It fights water retention and blemishes with specific drainage and stimulation of circulation techniques, centred on inferior limbs and on areas with adipose depots.






Myofascial massage
Stretching techniques on muscular bundles finalised to reduce muscular and tendons' tensions, muscular aches and improving articular mobility.






Connective massage
This kind of massage is part of the classic technique of mass therapy, thus called by a German physiotherapist, Dicke, who observed a diminution of ache with strong frictions on sacral region. The connective massage causes a normalisation of the elastic tension and the removal of every kind of tissues' reaction. The connective issue is affected when appears stuck on tissue below during palpation, aching, thickened, hard, oedematous, sandy, inflamed, locked and dry. The affection can be caused by traumas, surgical operation, contraction of inflamed muscles below in its area or tensions coming from other organs such far, which have their reflected area in that point. The connective massage is particularly advisable for cellulite, typical affection of this tissue, pathologies of spine, articular diseases, periarteritis, scapula-humerus aches, contractures and back-ache.






Anti-stress massage
It's a technique with the purpose of relaxing tissues and muscles, to optimise psycho-physical balance of the individual. The movements are slow and repetitive, in progression they give a pleasant sensation of "winding round". The harmonious rhythm of execution favours confidence between patient and practitioner.






Californian massage
It's an holistic massage, so whole, in which nothing is neglected, every single part of our body is considered. It's realised with long winding hot movements, the body of the receiver have to be totally involved from this heat wave. It starts with motions of resting, listening, possibly in harmony with the brief of our patient: it's important to inject to the receiver assurance and calm. Every single our passage will have a precise meaning. For example the back represents safety and aggressiveness, foots and legs our relation with reality, hands and arms our need to receive and give.






Sports massage
It has three main effects: it prepares muscles to the use, it relaxes muscles after activity and it improves recover time. It can also be practiced to give a simple general or local relaxation.
It is useful to: relax contract muscles, to improve circulation, to promote the metabolic exchange, to raise drainage of toxins produced during effort, to improve tissues' oxygenation, to accelerate recover time, to produce a beneficial effect on nervous system, to promote a sense of relaxation.






Plantar reflexology
It's a manual treatment of the many nervous correspondences situated in the plantar zones, which favours our natural "self-healing" of the body, reinstating the whole organism to a state of balance and harmony.