Acupressure for Pain

August 04, 2020

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With Michele Grand, LMT

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00:00Good morning everybody.
00:01I am Michelle grants license massage
00:04therapist is Milo Cancer Hospital
00:06at its my honor and privilege and
00:09pleasure to be with you today.
00:11We're going to be doing
00:12another acupressure program.
00:13This time we're going to be talking
00:16about paying kind of throughout the body,
00:18different conditions,
00:19pretty much working from
00:21the head to the show.
00:23If you'd like to grab a bottle,
00:25water a couple water that could
00:27be helpful because sometimes as we
00:30work the points we move a lot of
00:32energy and get a little bit thirsty.
00:34So before we begin,
00:35also just bring yourself into
00:37a comfortable position.
00:38Whatever is comfortable for you.
00:41Acupressure itself describes any
00:43type of massage that stimulates
00:46the pressure points on the body
00:49to achieve a therapeutic effect.
00:52It's the same points pretty
00:54much that acupuncture IST uses.
00:57They use the needles and when
01:00we work with acupressure we use
01:03our fingers to stimulate the
01:05same effect throughout the body.
01:08Pressure originated in Asia
01:10thousands of years ago,
01:11but it was only more recently
01:14in the 20th century,
01:15but it's benefit and use has
01:19spread throughout the world.
01:21Acupressure uses points that lie
01:23on Meridian throughout the body.
01:25These invisible lines they carry chi
01:28or life Forrest throughout the body.
01:31So in theory, when a Meridian is blocked,
01:35we can become out of bad balance.
01:38An illness or discomfort can occur.
01:42The benefits of acupressure include
01:44a boost of the immune system,
01:47are release of endorphins to
01:49relieve stress and pain.
01:51They can restore harmony and
01:53balance to the body.
01:55It can promote self healing and Wellness.
01:58It can improve emotional health and they
02:01can improve the appearance of your skin tone.
02:05Again with the with the goal of
02:07acupressure to restore health and
02:08balance to the bodies channels of
02:10energy it regulates opposing forces
02:12in which is negative energy and Yang,
02:15which is positive energy.
02:17The acupoints themselves are
02:18about the size of the pad of your
02:21son when we start working an we
02:23touch exactly on the point.
02:25Sometimes you can get around it,
02:27not exactly on it,
02:28which is fine too.
02:29But when you really get on it,
02:32you could feel a little store in this or
02:34a little bit of an early sensation there.
02:38And that can help you in locating
02:40the point as we work.
02:42We're going to use sustained
02:43pressure in circular,
02:44small little circular strokes on your own.
02:46When you work,
02:47you would stimulate the point
02:49maybe 1 to 3 minutes.
02:51In the time we have a lot of today,
02:53we may not be able to do that
02:56full effect on all the points,
02:58but will definitely be able to touch on them.
03:01Most of the most of our meridians
03:03are on both sides of our body.
03:05We have one that runs down the front
03:08of one that runs down the back.
03:10But when we stimulate the points
03:12that are on both sides about it,
03:14we want to work both sides.
03:16The body to get an equal and opposite effect.
03:19So again, the point that we touch
03:22on they carry chi or life force
03:24energy throughout the body.
03:26Now these points can either be deficient
03:28in energy or have an abundance of Energy.
03:31You think of them is like a River
03:34and through after liver there could
03:36be damned where there's not enough
03:38or pools where there's too much.
03:40So we stimulate the points appropriately.
03:43We started open the flow for
03:45a balance running through.
03:47The meridians include,
03:48sometimes they're called channels.
03:50There are 14 regular acupuncture
03:53acupressure meridians and just
03:55review there called the bladder,
03:58the governing vessel, the Gallbladder,
04:00the heart, the kidney,
04:02the large intestine, the liver, the lung,
04:06the pericardium, the conception vessel,
04:09the small intestine, the spleen,
04:11the stomach and the triple
04:14burner or triple triple warmer.
04:17Now, as we begin our man to administer
04:20the acupressure to ourselves.
04:21As I said,
04:22you want to be in a comfortable position.
04:25You can close your eyes or you
04:28can keep him open.
04:30Whatever you prefer.
04:31You want to stimulate the points
04:33with a finger in a Rotary movement,
04:36or up and down movement.
04:38When we measure the point,
04:40sometimes we use the word cool,
04:42which is a measurement of a
04:44finger with two super sorry.
04:46Soon it's it's it's written.
04:48See you in, but it's pronounced soon
04:51and two soon would be 2 finger widths.
04:54One soon would be one finger with.
04:57For soon would be for finger with a cross.
05:02The acupressure points that were gonna
05:06work on today are Gallbladder 14,
05:10stomach 3 Sonic 13 stomach,
05:1316 spleen 16 ladder 47 ladder 42,
05:17ladder 38 long won an spleen for.
05:22We're going to begin now,
05:23and as we do, just take slow,
05:25deep breaths when you feel like a a
05:28release of energy or stimulation, just.
05:30No accident, just take those deep breaths in.
05:33So to start with.
05:35Again,
05:35it's been willing to work
05:37with Gallbladder 14.
05:38I'm going to tell you what the location is,
05:41and then I'll talk about the benefits
05:44of that particular point as we work,
05:46the location location of Gallbladder
05:4814 is on the forehead.
05:50Yes, one soon or one finger with above.
05:55The eyebrows directly at the center
05:57of the pupil.
05:58So you gonna make the straight line up.
06:01You can use whichever you want.
06:04You can use your thumb.
06:06You could use your pointer finger,
06:08but what we're gonna do is we're
06:10gonna take the fingers and we're
06:12going to use light touch on the
06:15forehead when we work bigger muscles.
06:17We can use a deeper touch.
06:20An here we're going to use a light touch
06:23feel for a slight indentation right here.
06:27And we're just gonna make circles and
06:30bring your shoulders down and relax.
06:32Now what we're releasing here is any
06:36kind of head and neck pain, facial pain,
06:40net page tension or headaches.
06:44The added benefit of releasing
06:47Gallbladder 14 is it can just create
06:51some com thinking an emotional balancing.
06:54So we're just gonna breathe.
06:58And make our circles.
07:01Right here. Gallbladder 14.
07:06You can use your index finger,
07:09or you could use your thumb.
07:13And just take graphs as you need them.
07:21If you feel little soreness, that's good.
07:23You know you're right on the point.
07:29Mistake Brags in and out.
07:33In and out stimulate the
07:38Gallbladder called better 14 point.
07:43Excellent now again at home as you
07:45do this on your own time when you
07:49have time to sit and relax and
07:51release you wanna work these points
07:54for one to three minutes if you can.
08:00God. OK, now we're going to move
08:05on to our next point,
08:09which is stomach three stomach stream.
08:13Is also located on the face.
08:16It's located at the bottom of the cheekbone.
08:19Now we're going directly down from the pupil,
08:22and it's about one finger width
08:25lateral from the edge of the nose.
08:28So from here to here. I'm gonna go down.
08:33Below the pupil feel for that.
08:36Space is a cheekbone and we can use
08:39our index finger here and again.
08:42You'll feel it.
08:43You'll feel little soreness right
08:45here and again on the face.
08:47These are not thick, deep muscles,
08:50so we're going to gentle pressure.
08:54And we're gonna go upwards upwards
08:59towards the cheap onto release 3.
09:04Stomach three helps with any
09:06kind of pressure in the head.
09:10Also could help with toothache.
09:13You could help with sinus pain,
09:15which I know a lot of us may suffer with.
09:19During allergy season.
09:23We're just gonna use a light pressure.
09:27Upwards. And feel the release.
09:33This is sort of a facial beauty point.
09:36Will stimulate circulation and keyboard
09:38skin looking nice and young and supple,
09:41which is a nice added benefit.
09:45You may start to feel your sinus
09:48is opening of-, which is good.
09:51Just feel they release feel this gentle
09:58pressure moving up the cheekbone.
10:03Please keep that going,
10:09gentle breaths. This is stomach 3.
10:16This keep that going.
10:22Skeeter going excellent stomach 3.
10:29Feel the release feel they
10:33release any pressure in the head.
10:37Again tooth, pain, headache, sinus pain.
10:41Very good. Excellent.
10:42Excellent, so just keep that
10:46going another day another another,
10:49maybe 30 seconds or so.
10:53God excellent.
10:54OK, now we're gonna move on to stomach 13.
10:58Stomach 13 is located in the chest area.
11:02We're going to work some points
11:05down here in the chest area.
11:08The location of stomach 13 is below
11:12the midpoint of the collar bone
11:15or the clavicle and it's located
11:19between the 1st and 2nd lives.
11:21Which is right in line kind of
11:24with your breast area here.
11:25So you could kind of countdown.
11:27We're gonna go.
11:29Midpoint of the collar bone and
11:31then were gonna move down and
11:34you're gonna feel your ribs.
11:36And you gonna go between the
11:391st and the 2nd rib.
11:41You could kind of feel like right in here.
11:46You gonna use farmer contact on the chest
11:50muscles if you're not exactly on it.
11:53That's OK because the whole.
11:56Acupressure point is the whole size
11:58of the pad of your thumb, so you have
12:01like a good amount of space there.
12:03But we're gonna go like right about here.
12:07And again, this is stomach
12:0913 is another word for this.
12:12Uhm, acupressure points is cheap door.
12:15It's an opening muscle.
12:17It helps with any kind of chest pain,
12:20chest congestion.
12:22Sometimes if we had appetite imbalances,
12:25you can help with that as well.
12:28It's an excellent point for our breathing
12:34muscles of breath muscles is stomach 13.
12:40So just keep that going.
12:44They'll be opening.
12:50Right between the 1st and the 2nd lab.
12:54And keep the breath moving.
13:00God. Excellent again, this helps
13:06with any kind of breathing issues.
13:13Chest congestion could help with
13:16some appetite imbalances as well,
13:19so just keep that going firmer.
13:23Pressures fine and take good deep breaths.
13:27Excellent, excellent, very good.
13:32God, now we're going to
13:35move on to our next point,
13:37which is stomach 6, summit 16.
13:40Stomach 16 is again on the chest
13:42area and to locate stomach 16 it's
13:45above the nipple area of the breast
13:49between the 3rd and the 4th lips.
13:52So were gonna move down just a
13:54little bit from where we were
13:56and just kind of feel your ribs.
13:58You can get access to wear.
14:00Your ribs are also on the size and
14:03you could feel just feel for them.
14:05Feel the top rib II lab.
14:08Can you find the 3rd and foreign
14:10sleep right about here?
14:15We're gonna use a lighter
14:16pressure here because often
14:17there could be a tenderness here,
14:19particularly for women.
14:20But wait about here a little bit
14:23lower than we where we were before.
14:26I can't stomach 16.
14:28This can help with heartburn if you have
14:31heartburn or if you have some breast pain.
14:34Women that maybe lack tating or breast
14:37feeding, this can help quite a bit.
14:41Another additional bonus and benefit
14:42of stomach 16 is if you have insomnia,
14:45which I think a lot of us apparently
14:48are suffering from these days
14:50with all that's on our mind.
14:52So this can help.
14:54With that you could just sort of
14:56feel they really start to happen.
14:58You can feel it now as we work.
15:01Your shoulders are starting to relax a bit,
15:04your breath gets deeper.
15:06Little calmer,
15:07a little more natural.
15:11Just take those deep graphs in again,
15:14little lighter pressure here.
15:21Good. Go ahead. Just keep that going.
15:32Take deep breaths and hopefully you're
15:34just starting to speak only effects
15:36now as we work, it's cumulative.
15:37The more points you work on,
15:39the more of a positive affectivity
15:41CL throughout your body.
15:42You can feel your toes.
15:44I feel my toes starting to relax tingle
15:46because the circulation is starting to flow,
15:49which is excellent.
15:51That's what we're hoping for.
15:53OK, moving on to the next point.
15:57Now we're going to be working.
16:00Spleen 16 spleen, 16 spleen 16,
16:02is located now a little lower down.
16:06It's actually below the edge of the rib
16:10cage at the junction of the knife web.
16:14And the 8th rib again from your breast
16:17nipple area you gonna go straight down.
16:19We have 12 lives,
16:20so if you want to go down to the 12th ribbon,
16:24count up to the night from there
16:27that would be helpful as well.
16:29So you feel the 12th rim go up 1110 nine
16:33and between the 9th and the 8th rib.
16:36Between the night and the NBA jam.
16:40Right in the middle here.
16:42You want to place your fingertips.
16:45On to the bottom.
16:46And you want to do and upwards motion.
16:50Here you can go a little wider.
16:52You can use two.
16:53You can use a couple of finger widths here.
16:57And you just you could just feel it.
17:01You feel the release below the breast area.
17:04Just go an upward motion,
17:06keep your shoulders dropped.
17:09Maintain your breath and just
17:12move the rib cage upwards.
17:15This can help with any
17:18kind of diaphragm tension.
17:20We often hold our breath, Wimmer stressed.
17:24It can help really solid that if
17:29you have gas pains, side aches,
17:35indigestion, pain.
17:37Releasing spleen 16 is very helpful.
17:41Keep back upward pressure going.
17:45An added benefit of release at this point
17:48is helping with any kind of irritability.
17:52Good.
17:57Skip that going.
18:06Good. Not if you seconds here on spleen 16.
18:15Another word for spleen 16 is called
18:19abdominals sorrow, where we hold.
18:23It's where we hold some tension.
18:25Sometimes you get stomach
18:27aches when we're outside,
18:28and this will just help release you again.
18:31You can do this at home anytime,
18:33anytime you feel you need some sort
18:36of release there in the belly area.
18:38We're gonna move on now to ladder 47.
18:45Ladder 47 is located midway.
18:47We're going to move to
18:49after removing to our backs.
18:50Now now I just want to say
18:53when we work on our back,
18:55you know there's just so much
18:56we can do to reach back here.
18:59It would be awesome if we
19:01can reach our entire back.
19:02We would not need to go to massage
19:05therapist 'cause we can massage yourself,
19:07but we can try every little
19:09bit we do to release our back
19:11is helpful and we can do this.
19:13We can do this.
19:15We're gonna start with the lower
19:17part of the back and then we're
19:19going to work our way upwards.
19:21So right now what we're gonna do.
19:23The iliac Crest is right at the
19:25top here of the pelvic bone.
19:27That's the iliac Crest.
19:29Now on the back are webs go across
19:31from the front to the back of course.
19:34So where we're going to find a spot
19:37is at the base of the lowest web.
19:40OK, so if you feel your spine.
19:43You feel your spine at the top
19:46of your hip area.
19:48You're gonna move three finger
19:50widths outside of that spine.
19:52It's sort of at the opposite end of
19:55your belly button is kind of right
19:58where this point is this bladder.
20:01This is bladder 47.
20:02OK So what would you do?
20:05You find that spot again?
20:06It's the opposite side of your belly button.
20:09It's right above the hip area and
20:12it's about 3 finger widths away from
20:14the spine in your lumbar area, OK?
20:17See if you could see that right about here.
20:19Go ahead.
20:21This point helps with lower back ache.
20:27Lower back ache. Of course,
20:32if you have fatigue and stress,
20:34this is a good release as well.
20:37Those are added benefits.
20:39But primarily,
20:40if you have some lower back pain,
20:43this is a wonderful point release
20:46that you could get in there. Good.
20:48You could really use some good pressure here,
20:52'cause That's a strong muscle.
20:54We want to firmly press.
20:56It's like a thick rope muscle on full size.
21:00And our motion now move in towards
21:04the spine from out to in, out to in.
21:09And give that some good pressure.
21:13Again, this is ladder 47.
21:15Another name for this is see of vitality.
21:21Good. Keep back on,
21:25this is a wonderful release.
21:26You know it's a stretch for
21:28us again to reach back there,
21:30but the more you do it,
21:32the more open you'll become and the
21:34easier it will be to reach back here.
21:36It's it's good.
21:37Good stretch your shoulders as well,
21:39so again, this is C of vitality.
21:42Excellent, so just keep that
21:45going another few seconds.
21:48Bladder 47.
21:53Excellent, now we're going
21:55to move on to our next spot,
21:57which again is back here.
21:58Another bladder Meridian and
22:00again just know that it's again,
22:01I understand it's a stretch
22:03through to reach back here,
22:05but give it a try because it's good to
22:07know where these points are and they
22:09help so much an energetic release.
22:11And if you have somebody at home
22:13who can do these points for you,
22:16that's even better and you can tell
22:18them and explain where they are.
22:20So now we're going to go to bladder 42.
22:23Which is. At the OK.
22:27So we have a little wing bones
22:29back there the scapula.
22:31I'm not.
22:32The bottom of the scapula let me move it down
22:36the bottom of the scapula is about over here.
22:40OK, between the night and a
22:42tent with weight about here.
22:44So basically we're gonna move up about.
22:47One finger up from where we were before.
22:52And we're gonna just again
22:54press those with firm Contacts.
22:56It's white basically at the
22:57middle of your back.
22:59It's that spot that is very hard to get to.
23:03But try your best to reach that
23:05there just do the best you can
23:07because any work you do to release
23:09the paraspinal muscles back here is
23:11going to be extremely helpful for you.
23:14This by bladder 42 it's also
23:17called the soldier,
23:18and it helps with any kind of stomach pain.
23:22Stomach ulcers.
23:23They just a pain back and diaphragm tension.
23:29It's very helpful if you wanna change
23:31over and kind of use your thumbs.
23:33Even just get your thumb knuckle in
23:35there just as best you can and don't
23:38worry if they're not exactly on that spot.
23:41Don't worry about that.
23:42Just with this, the paraspinal muscles
23:44go from the lumber all the way up,
23:46and if you can release any part
23:48of that muscle,
23:49you doing good work.
23:54Good, excellent.
23:55The last muscle we're going to work on
24:00the back here is bladder 38 now again.
24:04It's a little bit higher.
24:06Even then we were just working.
24:08It's a little towards the top of the scapula,
24:11so if you prefer now to go from
24:14your top down, which may be better
24:16than the bottom up at this point,
24:19just reach back as far as you
24:21can take back on your shoulders.
24:24To the edge of your spine.
24:27Is the point is on the inside edge
24:29of this capitalist this time level
24:31with the 4th thoracic vertebra,
24:33which is right at the top of
24:36your wing bone or scapula bone?
24:39What we're trying to do again is
24:42just release the paraspinal muscle,
24:44so just do the best you can.
24:46Take your hands again,
24:47go behind your head and down
24:50your spine as best as you can.
24:52Whatever point you could reach,
24:53you may see a little knots
24:56of tension there the spine.
24:59And that's OK.
25:00Just do your best to release that.
25:03This helps with any heart
25:05and respiratory issues.
25:06Coffee, breathing that sort of pain,
25:08upper back pain of course.
25:11The added benefit you have
25:13some emotional imbalances.
25:14It will help with the release.
25:17So just do the best that you can't
25:19release that you can go from the top
25:21down or you can go from the bottom up.
25:24It's best that you can.
25:26And just released those paraspinal
25:28muscles along the spine.
25:29You don't want to work right on this.
25:31Fine,
25:31you're going to be to the left
25:33and to the right of the spine.
25:35It's a big,
25:36thick Roby muscle that goes all the way up.
25:41Good excellent, that's not easy,
25:43I understand. So the best that
25:44you can do with that is good.
25:46Good work and you're going to feel
25:49the positive effects of it for sure.
25:51The next point we're going to
25:53work on now is long one long one.
25:55We're going to go back to
25:57the front of the chest.
25:58It's on the upper outside
26:00portion of the chest.
26:02Right about here is long one.
26:05This is our letting go points.
26:09Right about here.
26:15The upper outside portion of the chest.
26:19Right about here.
26:20You feel for not here.
26:23Sometimes you feel little not
26:25right here in the upper outside
26:28outside portion of your chest.
26:31You wanna hold now holds.
26:34Take your fingers and
26:37just press and hold here.
26:41This helps with the emotional balance
26:45thing chest test tension, cough asthma.
26:51Sometimes we are just dealing with pain,
26:54just that affects emotional
26:56effects of dealing with pain,
26:58and this is an excellent release right here.
27:01Just take your fingers.
27:03And just press and hold for
27:06about 30 seconds and breathe.
27:12This is long one.
27:15And it's are letting go point.
27:19Take a deep breath.
27:26Excellent, this is not easy.
27:28This is a challenging
27:29but the effects are very,
27:31very, very beneficial,
27:32worthwhile and they last a long time.
27:35It's not just a quick oh,
27:37I feel better for a minute or two.
27:40You'll feel the positive
27:42effects throughout the day.
27:43And maybe even threw out a couple
27:46of days so it would be nice.
27:48So the last acupressure point we're
27:50going to work on today is spleen 4
27:53screen for is actually on the foot.
27:55So we're going to go down to the
27:58foot here and to find that the
28:01screen for acupressure point
28:02it's on the arch of the foot.
28:05It's at a little indentation here.
28:08You gonna feel that up.
28:12There's a, uh.
28:14Metatarsal bone right here below right
28:17here to bone basically is right here.
28:22Now on the outside here.
28:29And then over a bit,
28:31so your weight at the arch right there.
28:35You feel little nervous spot, right there?
28:38It's on the outside below the tailbone.
28:42Right there. See if you feel that
28:48sensitive is expensive tivity
28:49there you wanna firmly press.
28:52Into this acupressure point.
28:56If you want to go a little down and up,
28:59that's fine too.
29:00You gonna get that a good release,
29:02and it's also helpful to
29:04release the entire orange.
29:06This spleen four point
29:08helps with stomach aches,
29:09stomach pain,
29:10foot pain and cramps large to pain,
29:13and I'm often if you all of a sudden
29:16you're sleeping at night and you
29:19get this pain in your big toe.
29:22You just press on the arch from
29:24the bottom towards the top.
29:28And you're feeling nice,
29:30release here if you have some poor
29:32circulation and cold feet in the winter
29:35time which were only dreaming of now.
29:39You could simulate this point
29:41here and create some once.
29:45Is the spleen for.
29:51Good. It's important to do both sides,
29:54so we're going to move to
29:56the other foot and again,
29:58we're going to locate that point.
30:00We're gonna find the big toe.
30:03The base of the metatarsal bone.
30:06And we're gonna move in a little bit.
30:11And we're going to feel that spot there.
30:16Wait? Towards the top of the arch.
30:19So first we're going to press and hold,
30:22so we find that little nervous sensitive
30:24spot there so you know you're on it.
30:27And once you find it.
30:31And spend it little time there.
30:36Feel free to do the entire arch from
30:40the base of the arch up to that.
30:44Spleen four point.
30:48Just keep working that.
30:50For a little while longer.
30:57Good.
31:05Excellent. Keep that going.
31:11Nice release. For you.
31:17Again helps with circulation,
31:19stomach pain, foot pain.
31:23Large to pain.
31:28Good. Good. Excellent.
31:35So we're going to finish Offen.
31:37Just take a nice deep breath in.
31:40Movie dolls?
31:46And out through the mouth.
31:48Again. And one more breath and.
31:56And out will stretch arms out both sides.
32:02Arms overhead.
32:06And down into prayer pose.
32:10Excellent, that was a lot
32:12of work for you today,
32:13but I hope you're starting to
32:16already feel the effects of that.
32:18I know I definitely do I feel my entire now.
32:21My hands are kind of,
32:23circulation is going and just remember
32:25that this is work that you can do anytime,
32:28anytime in the morning before you
32:30go to bed just to kind of open the
32:33channels and just get that she going.
32:36So thank you for joining everybody.
32:38Be well and I hope to see you Thursday
32:41for a guided meditation program at 1:30.
32:45OK take care bye bye.