
Acupressure stimulates the body's blood circulation, lymphatic and hormonal systems. It relieves anxiety and stress, improves sleep, calms your joint and muscles, controls digestive issues, reduces headaches and migraines, and is also helpful for menstrual cramps. Positive results from acupressure massage are seen within a session or need multiple sitting, depending upon the severity of your concern—it differs from case to case.
What is acupressure therapy?
Acupressure massage is a thousand-year-old therapy that includes putting pressure on particular points on the body to treat illnesses. According to tradition, people have meridians points in the body. Qi is known as life-sustaining energy that runs along these meridians. Unfortunately, Qi gets stuck at some points in the meridians, and acupressure aims to keep the energy smooth using pressure at specific points.
What is acupressure for?
There are hundreds of meridian points in the body. So, naturally, exercise has many benefits. But, as with any form of massage, a huge bonus of acupressure is relaxation, one that gets behind even if you doubt the existence of meridian points.
The benefits of acupressure
Along with the ability to treat various illnesses, patients feel the additional benefits of acupressure massage. It's intensely relaxing and — like other types of massage — it can help you with:
- Relieving stress, tension and anxiety
- Improving sleep
- Relaxing muscles and joints
- Soothing the pain and discomfort of a sports or other injury
- Reducing digestive issues
- Minimizing headaches
- Alleviating chronic pain
The therapy regulates the body's circulatory, lymphatic and hormonal systems. It helps the function of the immune system and the body's natural ability to heal itself.