Shiatsu practitioner
Code 3255.3
Shiatsu practitioners provide health maintenance, health education, whole health evaluation and recommendations for wellbeing, and treatment of certain illness through energetic evaluation of the body's life energy system (Ki) and regulation of the life energy system through various energetic and manual techniques.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- complementary and alternative medicine
- pathologies treated by acupuncture
- massage theory
- massage types
- relaxation techniques
Skills and competences
- apply context specific clinical competences
- communicate with customers
- give shiatsu massages
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop therapeutic relationships
- identify customer's needs
- identify energetic meridians
- maintain work area cleanliness
- observe healthcare users
- listen actively
Transversal competences
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- promote mental health
- provide health education
- follow-up on healthcare users' treatment
Languages
- traditional Chinese medicine
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences