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Do Psi bands work?(Acupressure)

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http://www.psibands.com/ someone on my facebook was talking about them. They are supposed to cure nausea, especially good for pregnancy. I did a little research into acupressure and couldn't find anything conclusive.
 
They worked for me as a child for travel sickness, don't work now. My sister is using them for morning sickness and they're working for her. So... maybe? Possibly depending on how much you believe they'll work.
 
mikeyx said:
did I not give sme definitions, are you so obviousy trying to dodge your own thread?
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"Psi Bands (pronounced "Sigh Bands") are acupressure wrist bands for the relief of nausea due to morning sickness (pregnancy), motion sickness/ travel, chemotherapy, and anesthesia"

^Taken from website that I'm guessing you didn't read.

This is the claim they are stating the band does, I want to know if claim can be verified to be true. How much simpler can this be? And when has dismal failure ever been considered working?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work
^definition 9a
 
I used to have awful motion sickness and resorted to the bands. I thought it was working at first but then it didn't help at all.
 
They worked for the person who sold it to the people wearing them- it brought them some money, and that's all they were meant to do.
 
Professor Yaffle said:
Maybe, maybe not:

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD007575/interventions-for-nausea-and-vomiting-in-early-pregnancy

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD002...been-induced-by-having-chemotherapy-treatment

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD003...ive-nausea-and-vomiting-with-few-side-effects
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Meta-studies are interesting. I've seen at least one of those before, and was struck at the time how they didn't seem to have adequate controls. I admit I find it challenging to think of a good way to have controls -- one could check for efficacy of accupressure in a designated spot, perhaps, by deliberately mis-training some of the therapists and correctly training others, then comparing results. But this doesn't control for the attention paid during the therapy (regardless of the spot), nor for the obvious effects of the patients having been told it will help.
 
When I was a child, my brother frequently suffered from travel sickness. The solution given to him was to sit on a newspaper. It seemed to work.

Nothing magical about a newspaper so perhaps there is no need to spend lots of money on a piece of plastic. There are cheaper placebos out there.
 
They work by convincing the person that they have received a treatment and maybe by the attention received. They may also be a distraction.

Did Mythbusters do something on this? I thought they did but cannot find anything.
 
This was the solution given to me and my younger brother when we were children and suffered bad travel nausea. My mother would open up sheets of newspaper and spread them all over the back seat of the car. We would sit on these and not feel sick. When I asked my father how this worked, he told me; "ass-static, son."

I think my mother did this to protect the seats from vomit stains. It worked.
 
If the bands are sufficiently tight, it could overwhelm the brain and push out other stimuli. But, I think this only works in the short term. Eventually, your brain compensates.

I really see no mechanism by which such bracelets could be effective, unless they're delivering anti-nausea medication transdermally.
 
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