What is the difference between Acupressure and Acupuncture?? and where are they performed?!
Question: Acupuncture: is a technique of inserting and manipulating filiform needles into "acupuncture points" on the body with the aim of restoring health and well-being, e.g. treating pain and diseases.
Acupressure: is a technique based on the same ideas as acupuncture. Acupressure involves placing physical pressure by hand, elbow, or with the aid of various devices on different acupuncture points on the surface of the body.
Hope this helps :)
Answers: Acupuncture: is a technique of inserting and manipulating filiform needles into "acupuncture points" on the body with the aim of restoring health and well-being, e.g. treating pain and diseases.
Acupressure: is a technique based on the same ideas as acupuncture. Acupressure involves placing physical pressure by hand, elbow, or with the aid of various devices on different acupuncture points on the surface of the body.
Hope this helps :)
im chinese and i only know acupuncture its and ancient chinese needle thing where there are special points all around your body
where they stick the needle to relieve tense muscle pain or just pain(they dont stick it in randomly!!!)
One is pressure to the point of choice and one is the insertion of a needle, usually with electrical stim to the points.
Both work, acupuncture is more intense of a therapy since it by passes the skin which they say can absorb 80% of the energy transfer.
Acupuncture uses needles, acupressure uses pressure. I use acupressure occasionally within my massage practice. I do not have the schooling to do acupuncture though. I think here in the US it took my teacher....8 years? Kinda like schooling for a medical doctor. She says it's like becoming a doctor in eastern and western medicine. Both practices are based on the same principles with meridians in the body and specific points for various ailments and conditions. Like someone else said, they don't just stick the needles in randomly. :)
Accupressure is the use of pressure, applied to pressure points of the body, on the palms and fingers of the hand, and on the bottom of the feet. These points are believed to be interconnected with different parts and organs of the body, through the nerves, and thus, when massaged, will provide a soothing and healthy effect.
Acupucture is the medicinal use of sterile hypodermic needles, inserted in specific points of the body, and is commonly used to alleviate pain and stress. It is used for many years in China, where it was used in surgery to reduce pain by temporarily numbing nervous pain receptors.
Acupressure is like Reflexology practiced my most massage therapists.. Acupuncture is the placing of needles in strategic places both are done for pain relief.... Grant M in Pennsylvania
It's pretty much established that acupuncture suppresses pain slightly better than placebo. However, the mumbo-jumbo about "meridians" is just superstition. Recent evidence shows sticking the needles randomly has the same effect as placement along mythical meridians.
In China, acupuncture as pain relief is the modern understanding. Acupuncture is used in modern Chinese venues only as an adjunct for pain suppression. The old ideas about acupuncture as treatment for everything from appendicitis to chicken pox is dying out. In China, it is mainly old people and isolated uneducated peasants who still believe in acupuncture for anything other than pain relief. Acupuncture was already dying out in mid 20th century China, until revived by the Communist Party in the 1950s for propaganda reasons.
Acupressure is further removed from reality. Even acupuncturists in China laugh at the gullibility of Westerns who use acupressure.
Never fails!
A question is asked with a pretty simple answer that has nothing to do with the authenticity of the practice and sure enough....
Bold assertion both are quackery!
The difference between the two practices is that acupressure uses massage on meridian points, acupunture uses needles. As a general rule you can say that anyone practicing accupressure is dramatically worse and less able to do things than those practicing acupuncture (since the former requires no real training beyond reading a 20 page article). However, in china, the best chinese doctors do something which matches my description of accupressure, they just call it tui na.
When I first came to quackwatch it was the descriptions the website had of chi gung and accupuncture (and why they flawed), which made me have doubts about the rest of the site (where since I knew nothing about the medicines I could not comment on if the website was wrong).
In the book trust us we're experts, it details the modern pr approach, and points out that one of the best tactics to gain approval for your product is to create a few "independent councils of _____ or national association for better ______" and then have them all promote your message (also known as the third party technique).
Honestly man, look into the funding for that website. In Steve Barretts trial evidence was admitted and accepted that he was funded by the AMA to make quackwatch.