The use of Shiatsu treatments has been demonstrated very useful in a lot of sport disciplines, amateur, agonistic, or competitive.

        

Professional athletes in different sports specialities developed a great reinstatement speed after trainings and contests, deep relaxation during treatment, lowing of anxia levels before contest, greater clear of mind valuating tactic situation during agonistic effort, followed by an improvement of performances and by a greater resistance to fatigue. It's also demonstrate a lowering of accidents and muscular-articular diseases in athletes exposed to regular shiatsu treatments during controls and/or in comparison with periods previous this study.

     
Some simple shiatsu techniques regularly practiced after every training during three months produces a subjective and objective improvement of the performances of a group of judoka not agonistic. 12

In seven athletes affected by traumatic pathologies of the superior limb, during practicing aikido, great results have been obtained in the treatment of four cases; insufficient the result in three patients, submitted to a treatment of moxibusion, although there were symptoms of heat or constitutional excess of Yang; the study confirms efficacy of Shiatsu in sports traumas, also in case of ancient accidents, and it confirms the contraindication to the use of moxa in Heat syndrome and in patients with constitutional excess of Yang. 13

In a controlled study on a group of young volleyball players a weekly session of shiatsu for a period of three months produced a greater improvement of the elastic force, but not in the explosive force compared with a group of athletes of the same team, exposed to the same training and to the same agonistic competitions. 14 15

In the outline of the global assistance to a baseball and softball society, its first boys' team was in the Championship of series B, shiatsu demonstrated an efficacy also in therapy of acute traumas derived from sportive performances, besides demonstrate same vantages enumerated previously. 16 17

Another controlled study on a team of agonistic karateka on national level, the weekly execution of a shiatsu session for three months produced a significantly lower decrease in a test of explosive force and an improvement of results in tests of strength, and in another explosive test, besides in those of mobility of the trunk during the period of greater loads of training before a contest compared to a group exposed to the same training and to the same agonistic competitions, in which the same test demonstrated a decline of performances, typical of phases of maximal load. 18

In the same way the technique of shiatsu massage, practiced for long time, has great results resolving consequences of classical sport accidents. The pressure Shiatsu penetrates deep and limbers up muscular rigidity; stimulating circulation and it improves transport of oxygen (Namikoshi, 1997).

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12 Muccio F. Perfetto binomio tra shiatsu e judo, La Gazzetta dello sportivo, 28.9.1993.
13 Gianotti E. Aiki shiatsu e aikido, ASK, 1996, 10:8.
14 De Liso M .et al. Shiatsu e pallavolo, in CITeS, Primo Congresso Nazionale, Atti, 1998.
15 id. Rilassate e vincenti con lo shiatsu, , La Gazzetta dello sportivo, 1.5.1998
16 Arrizza E. et al, Shiatsu e baseball, in CITeS, Primo Congresso Nazionale, Atti, 1998
17 Mosca U., Fuoricampo con lo shiatsu , La Gazzetta dello sportivo, 29.5.1998
18 Guerra D. et al. Aiki Shiatsu e karate-do agonistico, in CITeS, Secondo Congresso Nazionale, Atti, 1999.