… patients in Iran request that alternative medicine be provided … can be reduced by pressing
and stimulating some points in our body … on organs of the body. Numerous studies indicate that …

… This study aimed to compare the effects of body acupressure and ear acupressure on
shoulder pain in a sample of Iranian patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. …

… at the selected hospitals in Isfahan, Iran. After convenient sampling, the subjects … acupressure
techniques were performed during 9 sessions, 3 times a week for 14 min for each patient…

… This study aimed to investigate the effects of acupressure on the severity of pain in chronic …
assigned into acupressure and sham groups using lottery method (25 patients in each group). …

… is that acupressure therapy makes patients feel relaxed, which … when the body is subjected
to acupressure manipulations, and that … More specifically, these peptides influence the body's …

… Non-acupoints (sham acupressure), which were 0.5 cun (corresponding to body unit) away
from … In this study, the 21-point Iranian version had a Cronbach's reliability coefficient of 0.74 …

… , due to the physiologic and psychological effects of acupressure, the patients expect the
acupressure to have a positive effect on their body, named as Hawthorne phenomenon. So et al…

… the effects of acupressure on anxiety in patients with cancer. Patients and Methods: … on
these channels, and each of these points affects the performance of a specific body part (22). …

… the effects of body acupressure at multiple points and auricular acupressure on the pain …
(intervention groups of either body acupressure or auricular acupressure; control, consisting of …

… acupressure, but in the present study acupressure was performed on five different points all
over the body, … while the present study used acupressure on heart attack patients. A study by …