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Out of Ibuprofen? Use Your Pressure Points for Pain Relief

pressure points for headaches

If you’re looking for a way to treat your headache naturally, you may think about acupressure and pressure points. 

Pressure points are parts of the body believed to be extra sensitive and able to stimulate relief in the body. 

Reflexology is the study of how one part of the human body is connected to another. 

Practitioners of reflexology, a discipline of Chinese medicine, believe that touching pressure points in a certain way can:

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  • Ease pain
  • Improve health
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Practitioners of reflexology believe you might have to massage one location, like your hand, to treat a different area, like your head or neck. The right pressure points may help ease your pain.

If you’d like to treat your headache this way, read on to understand how to do so correctly. 

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The Science Behind Pressure Points and Headaches

Studies have looked into how massage therapy on the head and shoulders can relieve headaches, sometimes involving the stimulation of pressure points on the head. 

One 2020 study investigated how massages might help adults experiencing chronic tension headaches.

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In the study, massages reduced the number of headaches in each subject within the first week of treatment. By the end of the study, the average number of headaches each subject revied fell from almost seven headaches per week to

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