Background: The two separate studies reported in this thesis represent the third and fifth in an ongoing series that commenced at the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 1999 into the effect of acupuncture on regional pressure pain threshold (PPT). The studies extended manual acupuncture research and were the first to include a study involving...

BACKGROUND Delivery is one of the most stressful events in women's life. Excessive anxiety, in turn, increases delivery and pregnancy complications. Mother's positive experience of delivery leads to more effective maternal-fetal attachment in the first few hours of birth. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to compare the effects of acupressure at two different acupoints on anxiety level and m...

Background: acupressure is the act of suppression on activation point (trigger point), wherein in case pain same as acupoint acupuncture. Acupoint lies throughout body that connects through a complex network meridians. Each has special effect body’s system, or it particular organ inside body. The aim to promote circulation able balance energy (Qi). There are several ways apply technic by pressu...

aim. this study was conducted to examine the effect of acupressure on severity of pain and fatigue in patients with chronic heart failure. background. patients with chronic heart failure experience high levels of pain and fatigue. acupressure is a simple, inexpensive and non-invasive method which may reduce the pain and fatigue in patients with chronic heart failure. method. in this single blin...

background: fatigue is considered as a major problem in hemodialysis patients and can impair their quality of life. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acupressure on fatigue in hemodialysis patients. materials and methods: this is a clinical trial study in which 96 hemodialysis patients participated. patients were randomly assigned into acupressure, placebo, and c...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We read with great interest the article by Etri M et al. about the effects of P6 acupressure on pain and vital signs of patients following small abdominal surgeries (1). Post-operative pain is often experienced by surgical patients, with practical consequences on clinical ...

Nausea and vomiting are the common complication during and after spinal anesthesia antiemitic drugs reduce vomiting, but have some potential side effect. Acupressure is a nonagressive and without drug effect method that some the researcher suggest that this method can be used as a approach to reduce nausea and vomiting. Objective: This study is a clinical trial which is aimed to evaluate the ef...

postoperative nausea and vomiting (ponv) is one of the most common postoperative complications. aside from pharmacological interventions, other complementary healing modalities have been introduced to assist patients in decreasing ponv and improving postoperative outcomes. this study examined acupressure as a safe complement to the more traditional approach of using drugs to prevent and/or reli...