I have a young man coming to me for chronic pain. He had an extensive surgery ten years ago, and has been on daily pain medication since then. He had relief from the first treatment, and after 3 or 4 sessions he has been able to go 8 hours or longer between medications, even forgetting to take his med sometimes. He has taken pain medication every six hours for years, and he told me that it had gotten so bad, he watched the clock for his next pill. That isn’t true anymore; he still has to take it before the pain gets too bad, or it is harder to get it under control, but the pain isn’t the cutting sharpness that it was before, and so is more tolerable. The challenge now is to get his body stabilized and teach him to do his own healing treatment. Acupressure is a powerful, underutilized tool for pain management.
Beth Steeve, Certified Practitioner. Acupressure is form of therapy that activates the meridian system, an energetic circulatory system honored in Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousands of years. Technically, any form of therapy that works through "pressure points" is an acupressure modality.
