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Shiatsu is a manual therapy of Japanese origin in which the practitioner applies pressure on certain points of the body in order to activate the body’s own healing capacities. Its name in Japanese means “finger pressure”. Authors and practitioners seem to conflate shiatsu with acupressure to make use of the available research evidence on acupressure. As shiatsu is considered to be a part of the ‘tree’ of acupressure.