After being accepted for the study, the women were randomly assigned to treatment or placebo groups. Intervention: Treatment group 1 applied SeaBands with acupressure buttons to both wrists for 4 days and removed the Sea-Bands for 3 subsequent days. It was been proven that pressure on this point relieves nausea and vomiting.
Sea-Bands work immediately and can be worn whenever you feel nauseous. Sea-Bands are drug free with no side effects, clinically tested, used by doctors and hospitals, fast-acting, simple to use, able to be used over and over again, packaged in a small plastic case making them easy to keep with you at all times, and is sold in more than 50 countries worldwide.
Search Site. Lost Password? Create Account. Why Seaband? Select Country Sign In. What are Sea-Bands? What are they used for? Yes, tests conducted on post-operative patients in hospitals have shown that Sea-Bands have a direct effect on the cost of care by reducing: The length of recovery — patients are more likely to recover quickly if they are not experiencing nausea.
How do they work? When should they be administered? And perhaps because of cultural bias, virtually all acupuncture trials coming out of China, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan just happen to show that those tiny needles really work.
This wrist acupoint is known by various names: the Nie-Guan point, pericardium 6 or, more commonly, P6. There are many, many studies of acupressure for nausea and vomiting. They are accompanied by an impressive array of review articles, clinical guidelines, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses.
Basically, the topic has been thoroughly investigated; and yet, the seesaw movement of the evidence—here positive, there negative—from one review article to the next is bound to make the reader nauseous.
A review will suggest that studies show acupressure to be ineffective against nausea and vomiting, but another will conclude that it works for nausea but not for vomiting. Meanwhile, a Cochrane Collaboration review published in reported that acupressure does appear to work for the nausea felt during a C-section under anesthesia but not for the nausea that appears after delivery or for the vomiting itself.
An updated version of this review was just published and the conclusion has changed: for nausea, the evidence is uncertain, whereas it may reduce vomiting. There are many reasons for these contradictions. The studies vary widely. Some ask their participants to stimulate P6 for two and a half minutes; others, for 24 hours. But even in the latter, there is anticipatory nausea in the week preceding the chemotherapy , acute nausea within 24 hours of receiving the treatment , and delayed nausea in the six days following chemo.
This heterogeneity among the studies has led some researchers to quash their hope of analyzing all of these studies together , as it would be a case of comparing apples to oranges. A large number of studies on acupressure and nausea are also simply poorly done. They lack a proper control group or a control group altogether , their blinding is poorly reported or poorly done , and the determination of what exactly makes for a good placebo control has invited many different answers, from wristbands without the plastic dome to acupressure on an unrelated part of the body.
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