Acupressure? Specifically for airways and coughing? Anyone tried it?

[seoirse]

As title really? Anyone used it? A friend does acupressure for horses and dogs and has offered to come and treat my horse, specifically for his airway issues. I'd be interested to hear from anyone else who has tried it for their horses as I'm curious really!

 

[paddy555]

not on horses but on me. And boy did it work.

After a year of antibiotics, constant pain every day and useless doctors it took the chiropractor who is also qualified as an acupuncturist less than 5 minutes to relieve my sinus pain with accupressure. He made around 50% improvement, the next session improved it to around 80% and it has steadily improved to a good 90%. This is over about 2 months. Within a couple of minutes of him working on it I could feel it draining. The treatment was painful at the time but only for a few minutes. He left me instructions on where to press and tap to continue it if I needed to.
No idea if it will work on a horse but I don't see why not. Well worth a try.

 

[seoirse]

I had acupuncture when I injured my neck and sternum in a car accident and it definitely helped loads, though I've never actually had accupressure. Interesting to hear your experience though, and glad it worked for you. Friend is only charging me expenses so it's worth a try and she has had a lot of success with it. I'm rather at my wits end with neds cough as we've tried everything pretty much.
She is going to come and treat him once a week for 5 weeks so I'll update! Thanks.