COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ACUPRESSURE IN REDUCING PAIN INTENSITY: A NARRATIVE REVIEW

Enggal Hadi Kurniyawan

NurseLine Journal
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016): November 2016

Medications used to treat or reduce the symptoms of pain usually have side effect. Acupressure is a complementary and alternative therapy that can be used to reduce pain intensity and has no side effect. This narrative review described acupressureas an alternative therapy in reducing acute and chronic pain intensity. This narra tive review included 25 articles published between 2006 and 2016 by using google scholar search engine. Keywords used to find the articles were acupressure andpain. Most of articles used in this narrative review concluded that acupressure effectively reduces acute pain and chronic pain intensity in the several kinds of