Sinus Pressure Points are the places in your face and forehead where you can massage them in the hopes of helping relieve pressure and loosen blockages which are causing your problems and how infections begin developing. If you’ve been exposed to an environment that has a lot of common allergy triggers (pet hair, smoke, dust, etc.) it is believed that this can also help relieve congestion so you don’t get sick. While it won’t treat a sinus infection from happening entirely, it can help with prevention or with dealing with congestion after being exposed to common allergy irritants.
Using sinus pressure points for massage is something that comes of the practice of Shiatsu, an ancient Japanese holistic therapy using pressure points in the body. To relieve sinus pressure, most of these pressure points are located in the face area.
In general, it helps if you have some experience and background in doing pressure point therapy and Shiatsu, because without knowing what you are doing at best you will not see any results and at worst you may actually end up hurting yourself or someone else if you’re not careful. (While you want to apply firm pressure, you certainly would not want to apply enough pressure to break someone’s nose for example!) You can always check your local area to see if there are any locally available Shiatsu practitioners who could either teach you to do it yourself for the first time or allow you to watch a demonstration to have a better understanding of how to do it properly. However, there are some basic things you can try at home on your own without really any experience.
The sinus pressure points are basically all located where your sinuses are. Remember, your sinuses are not really anything more than empty space (a cavity) between the bones and tissues in your face and behind the eyes.
Your upper cheek bone is where you generally have two sinus cavities, right below the eyes and to the side of the nose. Here you can take your index finger and gently massage this area moving your fingers in a circular motion while apply a small amount of pressure.
The other thing you can do is to massage the area directly between your eyes and nose, though you will want to exercise care to not apply too much pressure. You can then massage your forehead, again using your fingers in a circular motion right above and between the eyebrows.
Below is a video of a Shiatsu specialist explaining some of the things you can do at home to help alleviate sinus pressure and promote drainage:
Again, this should not be done as a sole treatment if an infection is present, but it can help you alleviate sinus pressure after consulting with your doctor or as a preventive measurement to take when you have been exposed to trigger environments that cause your sinus problems top worsen.
If you want to learn more about pressure point therapy or Shiatsu, I definitely recommend finding someone locally near you who can teach you more about it, since this is the best way to learn the art of acupressure. Now that you know the sinus pressure points, you’ll be able to give yourself or a friend a massage anytime they need one!
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