Bodywork is a general term to describe practitioner-led healing methods focused on the human body that emphasize hands-on pressure or realignment to improve the body’s function and the client’s mental health. Bodywork can encompass physical manipulation of muscles and joints as well as various forms of energy or electromagnetic field manipulation, including acupressure, acupuncture, chiropractic, cupping therapy, energy balancing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), kinesiology, massage, physical therapy, reflexology, and others.