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  2. Acupressure - Wikipedia

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    Acupressure is an alternative medicine technique often used in conjunction with acupuncture or reflexology. It is based on the concept of life energy , ...

  3. List of acupuncture points - Wikipedia

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    System of main meridians with acupuncture point locations. This article provides a comprehensive list of acupuncture points, locations on the body used in acupuncture, acupressure, and other treatment systems based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

  4. Acupuncture - Wikipedia

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    Acupuncture is generally only used in combination with other forms of treatment. [13] For example, the American Society of Anesthesiologists states it may be considered in the treatment of nonspecific, noninflammatory low back pain only in conjunction with conventional therapy. [31] Acupuncture is the insertion of thin needles into the skin. [3]

  5. Meridian (Chinese medicine) - Wikipedia

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    There are about 400 acupuncture points (not counting bilateral points twice) most of which are situated along the major 20 pathways (i.e. 12 primary and eight extraordinary channels). However, by the second Century AD, 649 acupuncture points were recognized in China (reckoned by counting bilateral points twice).

  6. Shiatsu - Wikipedia

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    Shiatsu techniques include massages with fingers, thumbs, elbows, knuckles, feet and palms; acupressure, assisted stretching; and joint manipulation and mobilization. [4] To examine a patient, a shiatsu practitioner uses palpation and, sometimes, pulse diagnosis.

  7. Jin Shin Do - Wikipedia

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    Jin Shin Do ("The Way of the Compassionate Spirit") is a therapeutic acupressure technique developed by psychotherapist Iona Marsaa Teeguarden, beginning in the 1970s. [1]Jin Shin Do classes teach the use of gentle yet deep finger pressure on specific acu-points and verbal Body Focusing techniques.

  8. Tui na - Wikipedia

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    The practitioner can then use a range of motion, traction, and the stimulation of acupressure points. These techniques are claimed to aid in the treatment of both acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, as well as many non-musculoskeletal conditions.

  9. Pressure point - Wikipedia

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    Muscular gouging techniques demonstration by a Marine Corps Martial Arts instructor. The earliest known concept of pressure points can be seen in the South Indian Varma kalai based on Siddha.