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An acupressure treatment applied to children undergoing anesthesia noticeably lowers their anxiety levels and makes the stress of surgery more calming for them and their families, UC Irvine anesthesiologists have learned.

According to Dr. Zeev Kain, anesthesiology and perioperative care chair, and his Yale University collaborator Dr. Shu-Ming Wang, this noninvasive, drug-free method is an effective, complementary anxiety-relief therapy for children during surgical preparation.

Sedatives currently used before anesthesia can cause nausea and prolong sedation.

“Anxiety in children before surgery is bad because of the emotional toll on the child and parents, and this anxiety can lead to prolonged recovery and the increased use of analgesics for postoperative pain,” said Kain, who led the acupressure study.

“What’s great about the use of acupressure is that it costs very little and has no side effects.”

In this study, Kain and his Yale colleagues applied adhesive acupressure beads to 52 children between the ages of 8 and 17 who were to undergo endoscopic stomach surgery.

In half the children, a bead was applied to the Extra-1 acupoint, which is located in the midpoint between the eyebrows. In the other half, the bead was applied to a spot above the left eyebrow that has no reported clinical effects.

When you are in ninth month of pregnancy, you will be waiting for the baby to born. There are many methods to encourage your labor with less pain.

Some of the methods are however risky. A natural way to encourage labor is acupressure and it is called as labor acupressure.

Labor acupressure is a natural way to encourage labor in women who are waiting for their delivery. It reduces pain related to the labor and for helping to speed up the delivery process.

Labor acupressure is almost similar to acupuncture, but this process uses only thumbs and fingers rather than needles that are used in acupuncture.

It means points for labor are similar for acupressure and acupuncture, but the way of stimulating the points differ.

Acupressure is safe and easy way with no side effects. Inducing labor with acupressure is a natural way for helping the cervix to ripen and dilate. Inducing labor in this way is safe for both mother and baby.

You can perform it on your own or ask your partner to do it. Medications are also used for inducing labor, but they force your body to start labor. On the other side, acupressure encourages your body for contractions to happen naturally.

Acupressure follows the similar technique as that of acupuncture points.

On the acupuncture point or whole body, firm and steady pressure is applied physically with the help of your elbow, hand or any other device called as the acupressure.

You should rub rapidly on acupressure point, as these points will affect the remaining parts and hence help them to stimulate.

Acupressure points for alleviating from depression:

With the help of acupressure points, you can alleviate your physical symptoms and attain decrease in depression. You will get depression when you suppress some emotions such as guilt or anger. In this situation, you can release them through the anti-depression acupressure points. These hidden feelings can be easily understood when you free them to reach the surface.

Acupressure points on the head for giving relief from head ache:

The acupressure points which are present on the top of your head are posterior summit point, one hundred meeting point and anterior summit point. You can get relief from headaches, memory lapses and depression by pressing these three points.