{"id":17689,"date":"2025-09-15T13:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=17689"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:41:31","slug":"acupressure-for-sciatica-similar-to-acupuncture-in-many-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/acupressure-for-sciatica-similar-to-acupuncture-in-many-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Acupressure for sciatica &#8211; Similar to acupuncture in many cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If acupuncture is a mainstay of <a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/sciatigon-sciatica-symptoms-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciatica<\/a>\u00a0nerve treatment under Traditional Chinese Medicine\u2019s (TCM) then\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/reflexology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acupressure<\/a>\u00a0is a closely related to it. The basic principles of\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/reflexology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acupressure<\/a>\u00a0are the same as acupuncture:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<ul>\n<li>Identification of cause of\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/sciatigon-sciatica-symptoms-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciatica<\/a>\u00a0on the basic principles of yin and yang.<\/li>\n<li>Earmarking\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/reflexology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pressure Points<\/a>\u00a0called meridians.<\/li>\n<li>Unblock what is known as Qi, the vital energy force.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/reflexology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acupressure<\/a>\u00a0differs from acupuncture only in the procedure adopted to release Qi. Acupuncture involves insertion of needles at the\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/reflexology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pressure Points<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/reflexology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acupressure<\/a>\u00a0attempts to achieve the same results by applying consistent pressure at the same meridians.<\/p>\n<p>The specialist uses thumbs, fingers and elbows depending upon the amount of pressure required. For\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/sciatigon-sciatica-symptoms-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciatica<\/a>\u00a0pain it is advised to find the center of the depression at the side of both the buttocks. \u2018Hard\u2019 pressure is then applied on both sides simultaneously. It is important that the pressure applied is \u2018hard\u2019 since the\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/reflexology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pressure Points<\/a>\u00a0lie deep below the skin. The pressure has to be consistent and kept till the count of 15. The idea is to free the\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/sciatigon-sciatica-symptoms-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciatic Nerve<\/a>\u00a0from muscular\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/pure-calm-anxiety-remedy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tension<\/a>\u00a0and entrapment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Acupressure for sciatica - Similar to acupuncture in many cases\" href=\"\/general\/acupressure-for-sciatica-similar-to-acupuncture-in-many-cases\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(712 words, 1 image, estimated 2:51 mins reading time)<\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If acupuncture is a mainstay of Sciatica\u00a0nerve treatment under Traditional Chinese Medicine\u2019s (TCM) then\u00a0Acupressure\u00a0is a closely related to it. The basic principles of\u00a0Acupressure\u00a0are the same as acupuncture: Identification of cause of\u00a0Sciatica\u00a0on the basic principles of yin and yang. Earmarking\u00a0Pressure Points\u00a0called meridians. Unblock what is known as Qi, the vital energy force. Acupressure\u00a0differs from acupuncture only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-therapies","category-anxiety-and-depression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}