🇹🇭 Thailand · Modern
Thai Foot Massageタイ式フットマッサージนวดฝ่าเท้า
Thailand's own foot treatment mixing wooden-stick point pressure on the soles with the sen concept; the stick is said to derive from Chinese and Taiwanese foot reflexology (such as the Rwo Shur method). Includes the calves, around 60 minutes.
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- Origin
- 🇹🇭 Thailand
- Era
- Modern
- Classification
- Traditional massage / Spa treatment
- Techniques
- Foot / Tool / Pressure
- Practitioner body parts
- Thumb / Tool
- Medium
- Cream
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Chair
- Also known as
- Thai foot reflexology · Thai Foot Reflexology
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