Background: Considering nausea and vomiting are a common complaint of pregnancy. Most non-medication therapy and complementary and alternative medicine were preferred to reduce it in recent years. The aim of our study is to determine the effect of acupressure (on point KID21) on nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Materials and Methods : This single blind clinical trial study was performed on 80 ...

Background: Dysmenorrhea is the most common cause of lower abdominal pain and has a negative impact on women's quality life resulting in activity limitations. Non-pharmacological management can be used as an intervention dysmenorrhea. Acupressure therapy that given by massaging or pressing certain points. The purpose this study was to analyze effect acupressure reducing dysmenorrhea pain. Subje...

OBJECTIVE To review available evidence about the effectiveness of alternative therapies for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and 13 additional US and international data bases were searched in 1996-1997 for papers that described use of alternative medicine in the treatment of pregnancy and pregnancy complications, specifically those addressing nausea, vomiting, and hypere...

OBJECTIVES To identify the efficacy of auricular acupressure on pain and disability for chronic LBP by systematic review. METHODS A search of randomized controlled trials was conducted in four English medical electronic databases and three Chinese databases. Two reviewers independently retrieved related studies, assessed the methodological quality, and extracted data with a standardized data ...

Editor,—I read Harmon and colleagues’ article on the use of acupressure in the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) with great interest.1 A cheap (and presumably re-usable) device without side effects and with such demonstrable efficacy must surely inspire great enthusiasm, and I look forward to seeing further such research. However, I was somewhat concerned by the process by ...

BACKGROUND Nausea, and to a lesser extend vomiting, remain significant clinical problems after the administration of chemotherapy, with up to 60% of patients reporting nausea despite use of antiemetics. Combining antiemetics with other non-pharmacological treatments may prove more effective in decreasing nausea than antiemetics alone. Hence, the aim of the current study was to evaluate the effe...

Background Myocardial infarction is a major complication of coronary heart disease, and due to high mortality, is a part of important medical emergencies. Today, complementary and alternative medicine, as nonpharmacological and health promotion methods is considered. Therefore, this study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of acupressure on physiological parameters of patients with myoc...

ABSTRAK Gangguan kecemasan adalah kondisi yang paling sering terjadi pada remaja, diikuti oleh gangguan perilaku, mood, dan penggunaan zat. Permaslahan muncul remaja/ siswi kecemasan, nyeri (kepala, diminore), belum pernah mendapatkan informasi terkait acupressure untuk kesehatan. Acupressure telah terbukti efektif menghilangkan berbagai rasa sakit mengurangi dismenore (gangguan menstruasi), pe...