ISCO Occupation Group 3255.5 Shiatsu Practitioner
From Open Risk Manual
Definition
Shiatsu Practitioner: 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
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Massage Theory
- Follow-Up On Healthcare Users' Treatment
- Complementary And Alternative Medicine
- Ensure Safety Of Healthcare Users
- Identify Customer'S Needs
- Pathologies Treated By Acupuncture
- Communicate With Customers
- Apply Context Specific Clinical Competences
- Provide Health Education
- Human Anatomy
- Empathise With The Healthcare User
- Human Physiology
- Perform Shiatsu Massages
- Listen Actively
- Observe Healthcare Users
- Maintain Work Area Cleanliness
- Identify Energetic Meridians
- Massage Types
- Promote Mental Health
- Relaxation Techniques
- Develop Therapeutic Relationships
Optional Skills
- Promote Healthy Lifestyle
- Apply Acupuncture
- Demonstrate Professional Attitude To Clients
- Reflexology
- Apply Aromatherapy
- Sterilization Techniques
- Balneotherapy
- General Medicine
- Skin Types
- Kinesiology
- Advise On Mental Health
- Advise On Healthy Lifestyles
- Iridology
- Types Of Aromatherapy Treatments
- Fasciatherapy
- Homeopathy
- Etiopathy
- Apply A Holistic Approach In Care
- Apply Deep Tissue Massage
- Acupuncture Methods
- Kinetics
- Neurophysiology
- Give Massages
- Advise On Healthcare Users' Informed Consent
- Select Acupuncture Points
- Acupressure
- Homeopathy Remedies
- Educate On The Prevention Of Illness
- Auriculotherapy
- Apply Massage Therapy
- Phytotherapy
- Accept Own Accountability
- Be In Touch With Your Body
Alternative Names
- Therapist Of Shiatsu Massage
- Practitioner Of Shiatsu
- Shiatsu Acupressurist
- Shiatsu Therapist
