The client asks "Is there anything else we can do to help control my pain?" The nurse's most in-formed suggestion concerning complementary therapies is:
1. "Massage therapy may help you; it certainly helped me."
2. "Most complementary therapies will help decrease your pain."
3. "Have you ever thought about seeing a chiropractor? Manipulation often helps decrease pain."
4. "Acupressure uses appropriately applied pressure to specific body points, thus de-creasing pain."
ANS: 4
Acupressure is a therapeutic technique of applying digital pressure in a specified way on desig-nated points on the body to relieve pain, produce analgesia, or regulate a body function. The re-maining options make assumptions concerning the origin of the pain and may suggest inappropri-ate therapies. It is also inappropriate to include such a personal comment as to refer to one's own pain.
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