Lower back pain is one of the discomforts experienced by pregnant women that can interfere with daily activities. One non-pharmacological methods for dealing lower acupressure therapy. The purpose this study was to determine effect therapy on intensity in third trimester pregnancy. This research a Pre-Experiment group pretest posttest design approach. population who examined their pregnancies P...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of acupressure therapy in a sample of adolescents with insomnia using a standard polysomnographic evaluation. METHODS For this study, 25 adolescents affected by psychophysiological insomnia (mean age 15.04 ± 1.18 years, 12 boys) were enrolled. A device known as the Sea-Band(®) was used by the patients in order to improve their sy...

Methods We performed a secondary analysis of 142 obese participants who had lost at least 10 pounds in a conventional weight loss program and who were randomized to the experimental weight loss maintenance intervention. This experimental intervention consisted of instruction and application of an energy psychology intervention, Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT). TAT practice combined self-acupr...

Acupressure is an alternative medicine methodology that originated in ancient China. Treatment effects are achieved by stimulating acupuncture points using acute pressure. Acute pressure block of the sciatic nerve is a newly reported analgesic method based on a current neuroscience concept: stimulation of the peripheral nerves increases the pain threshold. Both methods use pressure as an interv...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To critically examine the evidence for acupuncture and acupressure in the management of cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in adult patients with cancer. DATA SOURCES 18 databases were searched for randomized, controlled trials published in English and Chinese through April 2014. DATA SYNTHESIS Given the heterogeneity of data, meta-analysis was not conducted. A six-step themati...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether auricular acupressure could improve the absorption of flavanones in the extracts from Citrus aurantium L. in the human body. METHODS Ten (10) healthy male volunteers were randomly divided into two groups. Group A was treated with the combination of oral administration of C. aurantium L. extracts and auricular acupressure. Group B was treated only with the oral adm...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to investigate whether there is a gap between evidence of traditional medicine (TM) interventions in East-Asian countries from the current Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) and evidence from current systematic reviews and meta-analyses (SR-MAs) and to analyze the impact of this gap on present CPGs. METHODS We examined 5 representative TM interventions ...

Labor pain can cause stress which causes excessive release of hormones such as catecholamines and steroids. Pain in the active phase is physiological that occurs for a longer time, we need an effort to deal with first stage labor. If labor not overcome, it will problems are only painful mother labor, but also have potential threaten life fetus. One technique be done reduce intensity provide acu...