This issue of the IJTMB brings a spectrum of research to readers. In the Research Section, you will find a listing of the abstracts of research project posters presented at the recent American Massage Therapy Association 2014 National Convention. These abstracts were peer-reviewed by a committee of Massage Therapy Foundation volunteers. The nine posters cover topics from case reports for severa...

Adelaide Medical Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne developed a small research project with Shiatsu practitioner Anne Palmer, MRSS(T). For her MSc dissertation Anne evaluated the effectiveness of Shiatsu for patients with chronic shoulder pain. GPs at the centre, which is linked to the University of Newcastle, referred patients who came with this condition to Anne. Patients has the opportunity to jo...

BACKGROUND The potential contribution of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities to promote and support critical health literacy has not received substantial attention within either the health promotion or the CAM literature. This paper explores the potential of one CAM modality, shiatsu, in promoting well-being and critical health literacy. METHODS Data are drawn from a longi...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies have been provided at hospitals along with conventional medicine in industrialized nations. Previous studies conducted in Japan revealed high proportion of Japanese had experience of using CAM, but failed to discuss how it should be provided. The present study aims to clarify the demand for CAM practice at hospitals in Japan. A questionnair...

Shiatsu is one of only a few complementary therapies featured on the National Childbirth Trust’s DVD given to all pregnant women in the UK. The Shiatsu Society was one of only 13 organisations that sponsored the DVD. We produced a short advertisement which appears on the DVD in between the documentary-style footage about how parents can prepare for the birth of their baby. The film combines inf...

A recent paper by N. Jacobson' develops a theory of Jordan algebras with minimum condition which is similar to the associative theory of semisimple Artinian rings. Jacobson shows that any algebra satisfying his axioms is a direct sum of a finite number of simple algebras satisfying his axioms, and he deduces the structure of those simple algebras which contain three mutually orthogonal idempote...