Acupressure Co-Op Benefits

Can Acupressure Help You?
Over 80 million Americans a year are disabled by pain. While acupressure can be used with conventional methods of pain relief it can also provide a cost-efficient alternative to medical or surgical procedures and drugs. Some of the other Advantages of Acupressure are:

-Acupressure is non-invasive and there are no negative side-effects.
-Acupressure is safe, easy to learn and can be self administered.
-Acupressure promotes and generates overall healing, along with symptom relief.
-Acupressure can accelerate healing from injuries and surgery.
-Chronic conditions resistive to other conventional treatments may be relieved through acupressure.

Four main areas of interest and potential benefits: Individuals, businesses, doctors, & communities.

INDIVIDUALS
*quicker treatment of illnesses before they become more serious
*quicker healing responses than most drugs and other conventional therapies
*less need for drugs with difficult side effects
*low one time cost tools and information
*don’t need to continually buy a product for healing eg herbs
*potential treatment for diseases and conditions that have resisted conventional treatment
*become more self reliant in health needs
*reduced need for difficult surgeries
*reduced need to go to hospitals where you are exposed to serious life threatening illnesses and diseases
*reduced cost of medical doctors
*have treatment options even if you are away from primary doctors
*have access to treatment protocols for over 4000 symptoms
*long term health prevention rather than just fighting diseases that occur
*tools and information that you can use to help your family in their healing needs
*reduced need to see doctors for care
*less time off work for minor symptoms like the flu and colds
*live a healthier and longer life
*can be less dependent on others for treatment or help as I age
*less risk of bankruptcy (most bankruptcy claims center around health problems)
*better job dependability so you can be a more likely to have more financial benifits
*if you lose health insurance you have a backup plan for good health
*many difficult emotional states can be self treated without needing expensive and time consuming therapies (depression, anxiety, PTSD)
*possible financial incentives for people interested in sharing the tools with others
*treatments can be done in spare time or while doing other activities so no need to set aside special time slots for healing (while watching news at night)
*learning how to do acupressure is easy and not time consuming
*new computer videos make finding the right points for your condition easy
*some difficult chronic conditions respond well to acupressure (MS, arthritis, chronic pain)
*when someone close to me or at work is ill there are protocols that I can do to build up my resistance to those illnesses
*can treat stress with simple strategies before it leads to serious illnesses
*there are simple protocols that can relieve past traumas that may be interfering with my present happiness
*can use acupressure while camping or traveling
*acupressure can be used as a diagnostic tool for some diseases (breast cancer study)
*improve quality of life
*relieve suffering
*provide physical and emotional comfort
*have a quality health system regardless of my financial status
*acupressure offers me many low cost options for learning more on all the different applications
*more possibilities of self management of my physical needs
*when I need more intensive care I can easily increase my use of the therapy
*I do not need to worry about overuse and the system becoming ineffective
*acupressure is thousands of years old and there are many good resources to learning more
*acupressure can offer internet communication with many experts through emails, blogs and forums
*I can reduce my health insurance cost by using this system of healing (future to be established)

BUSINESSES
*less time off the job because of illness
*individuals more able to fight off contagious diseases with simple point stimulation
*more productive on the job because of less pain symptoms (research documents 78% reduced pain
*more focused on job because of protocols for negative emotional states
*easy to share the program with employees either in short classes or on internet videos
*low cost for program that is easy to share with employees
*one time up front cost not requiring repeat high professional cost (massage, physiotherapy, psychologist
*healthy employees are happier – happy employees are more productive
*repetitive motion injuries can be prevented with regular no cost treatment for stressed muscles
(If you know that a particular job can lead to certain problems you can treat for that illness in a preventive manner. )
*stress can be treated on regular basis so that it doesn’t build up and cause problems

DOCTORS
*have potential low cost diagnostic tools that are less invasive
*can reduce the amount of expensive drugs I use for pain
*some surgeries can be delayed or prevented
*will not have to commit my patients to the hospital so often
*can give my patients low cost therapies that they can do without being so concerned with expense
*can provide treatment even when patients have no insurance or money
*easy to share how to use acupressure with my patients
*I can relieve suffering for conditions that people have difficulty with
*I have some non invasive tools to try before I need to do invasive, expensive, dangerous treatments
*I do not need to turn someone away because they cannot afford the expense
*it is easier to do follow up on internet without needing multiple appointments
(Email survey can determine effectiveness of treatment and additional or different protocols when patients are not improving)
*I am able to do things that motivate my patients to use this system
*I can quickly and easily to show patient results for pain management in office (can get pain reduction in 5 to 10 minutes)
*I can empower people in their own healing by just giving them the information and saying “Try this others have gotten good results. If they can you can.”
*I have the potential of reducing medical cost by 75% for many conditions
*I can meet my long term goals of helping to relieve the suffering of others
*I can introduce my patients into more preventive therapies
*I can use a therapy that has no side effects
*I can teach acupressure to different parts of the community through clubs, schools, businesses (people are interested in things they can do to heal themselves)
*I can use these methods to manage my own stress and the pressure of the job
*I can teach people in community acupressure and increase my exposure in the community

COMMUNITIES
*If the results of the research can be duplicated we could reduce the cost of medicare and medicaid by 75%
*We can offer acupressure to people who we cannot afford to treat (Mental health patients are denied therapy when they can’t afford the cost or when government budgets are inadequate)
*This therapy is low cost enough that everyone can be offered it at a cost the community can afford
*prison medical cost are increasing at an astronomical rate. Inmates can learn acupressure for self treatment.
*VA hospital program can use this treatment to focus more on prevention for long term cost savings
*Military personal can use this system on when in the field so they can get quicker treatment for potential long term illnesses like PTSD, anxiety

Some of the conditions the World Health Organization suggest my be treated with acupressure are included below. The area the Acu-Ki Institute has had the best research results is in the area of pain relief.

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