1. Health of Future Generations
Reflexology and the Health of Future Generations : Starting With Children Like many other recent consultation papers, The National Children's Bureau's report 'Supporting Families' recognizes that a good start in life is a crucial part of an individual's future health and well-being. Through expanding the work that they do with ...
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2. Reflexology & Nervous Exhaustion
Recent research from China suggest that reflexology may be particularly helpful for patients suffering from nervous exhaustion. Twenty patients with a history of neurasthenia (nervous exhaustion) which had lasted between 1 - 8 years were given a course of reflexology at the department of physiotherapy, 52884 Military Hospital. The patients' ...
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3. Reflexology & Cardio Vascular System Research
B. S. M. Frankel of the Department of Physiology, University of Leeds, England has conducted a pilot study "to identify if reflexology and foot massage affect the physiology of the body by measuring baroreceptor reflex sensitivity, blood pressure, and sinus arrhythmia." Ten recipients of reflexology work and ten recipients of ...
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4. Reflexology & Kidney Stones
A few years ago, researchers at Glostrop hospital, Copenhagen, demonstrated that reflexology can help relieve the acute pain suffered by patients with kidney stones. 30 patients participated in the study and were divided equally into three groups: one group received reflexology treatment, one group received placebo treatment and the remaining ...
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5. Reflexology Used for Cancer Patients
Ten minute reflexology treatments can provide relief from pain, nausea and anxiety, according to a report from the School of Nursing, Division of Science and Design, University of Canberra
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6. Reflexology Helps Increase Renal Blood Flow
Researchers in Austria studied the effects of reflexology upon renal blood flow. 32 healthy young adults (17 women, 15 men) participated in a placebo-controlled, double blind trial. The treatment group received reflexology at zones corresponding to the right kidney. The placebo group received treatment on other foot zones. The blood ...
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7. Premenstrual Symptoms
Randomized Controlled Study of Premenstrual Symptoms Treated with Ear, Hand and Foot Reflexology By Terry Oleson PhD and William Flocco, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 82, No. 6, December 1993 This study was designed to determine whether reflexology treatment can significantly reduce premenstrual symptoms compared to a placebo ...
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8. MRI proves Reflex connections to Brain
Somatotopical relationships between cortical activity and reflex areas in reflexology: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Nakamaru T, Miura N, *censored*ushima A, Kawashima R. Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan; Department of Functional Brain Imaging, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer (IDAC), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. We examined the ...
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9. Reflexology Research of Fatigue and Insomnia in (Coal ...
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of foot reflexology on fatigue and insomnia in patients suffering from coal workers' pneumoconiosis. Method:This study was a quasi-experimental study of pre-test and post-test design in a non-equivalent control group. The subjects of this study consisted of both the ...
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10. Reflexology & Angina
Foot reflexology applied during an active onset of angina and observed with EKG showed disappearance of symptoms and a change to T-waves in V1.3 elevated from depressed T-waves and T-waves in V5 inverted upright from an inversion of T-waves. Following a 10-day course of daily 50 minute foot reflexology sessions, ...
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11. May is Arthritis Month
Forty-six million Americans are currently living with arthritis, the nation's leading cause of disability, and we are all paying a high price for it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the annual cost of arthritis to the United States economy was $128 billion in 2003 and ...
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12. Reflexology & Back Pain
A study conducted at the Hospital of Beijing College of Languages investigated the effect of reflexology treatment on acute lower back pain. Twenty patients between the ages of 35 and 55, all of whom were teachers or office workers, and suffering from lower back strain participated in the study. The ...
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13. Reflexology Research of Post Operative Pain Reduction
Method: Sixty patients of general surgery were randomly assigned to a control group or a reflexology group. All were given the "required quantity of standard drugs such as NSAID (Diclofenac and Opioids (Pethidine and Fentanyl)." Fifteen to twenty minutes of foot reflexology work was applied to the treatment group. Results: ...
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14. Reflexology & Recovery
According to a 1994 Swiss medical report, foot Reflexology is one of the most useful treatments for post operative gynaecological patients. The researchers demonstrated that reflexology enhances urination, stimulates bowel movements and so aids recovery. Patients who received reflexology treatment also showed a much less need for medication than patients ...
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15. Reflexology & Asthma
Recent research has revealed that asthmatic children have benefited from reflexology treatment. (1) Reflexology is certainly an appropriate non-invasive therapy to help this condition and there are many reports from therapists of asthmatic patients being helped through reflexology. This may be because reflexology helps 'balance' organs and tissues throughout the ...
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