Patients Benefit From New Acupuncture Program – Seattle Children’s Hospital
– Acupuncture at Seattle Children’s involves applying needles, magnets and/or manual pressure (called acupressure) to specific points throughout the body to stimulate those areas. The treatment can help with a number of problems hospitalized patients experience, including pain, nausea, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, depression and more.
Yvette knows first-hand how beneficial acupuncture can be for cancer patients. While undergoing breast cancer treatment two years ago, she received acupuncture to manage the side effects. “It helped a great deal,” says Yvette. “Not just with pain, but also with fatigue.”
Gailon first used acupuncture at Seattle Children’s to relieve the discomfort caused by her tumor. “Acupuncture and acupressure helped manage the pain in addition to some of the other ways to manage pain,” says Gailon.-