(n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Upon reviewing the professional literature, a paucity of information on acupressure was discovered.
(2) In addition, acupressure manifested biphasic regulatory effects on sinus arrythmia.
(3) Using a single subject experimental design, six hospice patients were exposed to three conditions: An acupressure wrist band; A placebo wrist band; A no wrist band condition.
(4) The effectiveness of the "Sea Band" acupressure band compared with placebo and hyoscine (0.6 mg), also known as scopolamine, to increase tolerance to a laboratory nauseogenic cross-coupled motion challenge was assessed using 18 subjects.
(5) Auto-acupressure replaced outpatient prescriptions for analgesics, ergotamine preparations, steroids, propanolol or methysgeride.
(6) Having seen pregnant women pressing the P6 point as a preventative for morning sickness, stimulation of this point for 5-10 minutes by invasive (manual or electrical acupuncture) or non-invasive (transcutaneous electrical stimulation or acupressure) means was studied as an antiemetic.
(7) This article uses acupuncture theory and research to provide a theoretical basis for the use and study of acupressure.
(8) Injection therapy was of four different types: lidocaine, lidocaine combined with a steroid, acupuncture, and vapocoolant spray with acupressure.
(9) Use of acupressure resulted in a significantly lower frequency of morning sickness compared with placebo treatment.
(10) Subjects in Group 1 (N = 8) used acupressure wristbands for five days, followed by five days without therapy.
(11) While acupressure reduces morning sickness, the pressure has to be applied for 5 minutes every 2 hours.
(12) This effect can be prolonged for 24 hours by acupressure.
(13) During a 12-day period, organized in four steps of 3 days each, the women were divided into two homogeneous groups to test the effectiveness of unilateral and bilateral acupressure.
(14) More than a 60% positive effect was found with unilateral and bilateral acupressure, compared with an approximately 30% positive effect of placebo acupressure.
(15) There were two independent variables with two levels each: acupressure vs. placebo, and motion sickness high vs. low susceptible subjects.
(16) Blinded by a fever in infancy, Chen attended the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to study acupressure, one of the few occupations available to blind people in China .
(17) This study assessed the effects of acupressure wrist bands on the nausea and vomiting of terminally ill patients.
(18) Sixty-six patients, ages 3-12 yr, undergoing outpatient surgery for correction of strabismus, were allocated randomly to receive either bilateral P6 acupressure or placebo during the perioperative period.
(19) The resuscitation effect is based not only on strictly determined points but also on diffusive irritation of respective point and its surroundings by acupressure.
(20) The curative effect of acupressure on essential vascular hypertension was good.
Acupuncture
Definition:
(n.) Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.
(n.) The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.
(v. t.) To treat with acupuncture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(2) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
(3) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
(4) This is Part I of a study whose purpose is two-fold, that is, to arrive at a classification of diseases under investigation according to their responsiveness to acupuncture therapy, and to discuss and identify the most effective loci for the diseases investigated.
(5) An experimental investigation of acupuncture's analgesic potency, separated from suggestion effects, is described, in which judgments of shock-elicited pain of the forearm were recorded along two separate scales: intensity and aversiveness.
(6) It may be observed that the release of 5-HT in these regions of the brain is accelerated during acupuncture analgesia.
(7) From this information, it would appear that it is possible that the mechanism for the prolonged effect of acupuncture in treating chronic pain is that the repeated activation of the physiological systems by which acupuncture inhibits pain, by the repeated acupuncture treatments, trains the body to continue this activity and thereby maintains the pain relief for a period of time after the last treatment.
(8) The effectiveness of acupuncture in managing the pain of primary dysmenorrhea was investigated in a randomized and controlled prospective clinical study.
(9) From a 24 person sample, two groups were tested one with Biofeedback and acupuncture, and, another with only Biofeedback.
(10) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(11) There were no significant differences between the effects of genuine and sham acupuncture either on exercise test variables or on subjective variables.
(12) The selection of acupuncture loci and the techniques of needle insertion and manipulation are discussed in detail.
(13) In a majority of the cases electro-acupuncture was found to be effective, and this treatment should be instigated as early as possible.
(14) With the recent popularity of acupuncture therapy and anesthesia in the United States, patients are having temporary needles placed in the external ear.
(15) Plasma ACTH, cortisol, and cyclic-AMP levels of eleven heroin addicts were dertermined before and after treatment with a fast detoxification procedure using acupuncture and electrical stimulation (AES) together with the administration of limited doses of naloxone.
(16) I have spent the two months since my last operation reducing my stress levels and having regular sessions of acupuncture to prepare for the second round.
(17) Acupunctured at "Neiguan" can anti-shock by increasing blood pressure and can decrease the ANP and AII in plasma.
(18) A more rapid return of consciousness, an absence of hypercapnia and a smaller decrease in pH were observed in patients who received acupuncture and transcutaneous stimulation (p less than 0.05).
(19) The "target" areas were within the part of the body that experienced acupuncturists predicted would be most affected by acupuncture of specified traditional points.
(20) Much confusion and frustration has been caused by the inability of workers in acupuncture to demonstrate the exact nature of acupuncture loci or to identify them in neuroanatomic terms.