I am going to teach you how to heal sciatica using acupressure therapy. If you’ve ever experienced sciatica, you know that this can be extremely a painful and debilitating syndrome that tends to come and go. It’s important to understand the pattern of disharmony that is actually aggravating your sciatica. I encourage you to seek out your local acupuncture physician in Bellmore so that you can get a proper diagnosis as well as acupressure points that you can stimulate yourself that will help alleviate the pain in the future.
In this article, we’re going to highlight one local point that is often employed with acupressure acupuncture. This point is called gallbladder 30 or Gb 30, and if you search around with your thumb or your pointer finger for the hollow of the sacroiliac joint, also called the SI joint sometimes, you will most likely find it by pressing down when your patient lets you know that you have found it.
This point is typically very tender in those patients experiencing sciatic pain. That Gb 30 point is located in a small hollow where the sciatic nerve actually runs through and there are two muscles that sometimes can press down on this nerve causing it to be inflamed. So in order to alleviate the pain of sciatica with this point, you need to use firm pressure with your thumb.
When using the thumb for acupressure, you don’t want to just press from the thumb, you also want to use the leverage of your hand and press all the way down as this point is quite deep. When it’s needled, sometimes we use three to five inch needles to actually hit the point. You need to press on the point for about 30 seconds or so and then let go and then repeat several times until the pain is reduced.
You can also use your elbow if you don’t have enough strength in your thumb or you can’t get to the point as deep as it is.
Remember to check out your local acupuncture physician so that you can get the skilled help you need in alleviating your sciatica. This is acupressure treatment for sciatic pain.