Ashiatsu (deep feet) Bar Therapy

As a natural, ancient, traditional healing art (Field, 1998) massage was widely used to improve healthcare, prevent diseases and prolong life for a wide range of conditions, symptoms and situations (Hosseini et al., 2013; Kumar and Preetha, 2012).

Evidence continues to mount suggesting massage therapy is 1) an effective alternative approach for the treatment and management of many conditions, 2) it is highly effective in reducing pain symptoms, and 3) it is highly effective in improving health-related quality of life in a variety of health conditions and rehabilitation, including but not confined to: delayed onset muscle soreness (Davis et al., 2020), low back pain and chronic pain (Skelly et al., 2020), arthritis (Nelson et al., 2017), cancer-related pain (Calcagni et al., 2019), cancer-related fatigue (Hilfiker et al., 2018), headaches and migraines (Côté et al., 2019), palliative care (Armstrong et al., 2019), dementia (behavioral & psychological symptoms) (Leng et al., 2020), Parkinson's disease (motor and non-motor symptoms) (Angelopoulou et al., 2020), physiological and psychological stress management (Kashani and Kashani, 2014), and the surgical pain population (Chou et al., 2020).