What's the difference between acupressure and shiatsu?
Acupressure
Definition:
(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.