Reflexology is a relaxing yet rejuvenating treatment done on either the hands or feet. It is an ancient form of natural healing used to relax the body, restore balance, and encourage the body’s own healing system to take over. A session consists of lying on a massage table or reclining chair and removing only your socks. Specific pressure is applied to the feet and hands to stimulate the reflex points that correspond to all of the organs, glands, and parts of the body
The proven benefits of reflexology include:
The proven benefits of reflexology include:
- Creation of relaxation
- Reduction in pain
- Amelioration of symptoms of health concerns
- Improvement in blood flow
- Impact on physiological measures
- Enhancement of medical care
- Complement to cancer care
- Adjunct to mental health care
- Post-operative recovery and pain reduction
- Easier delivery and postpartum recovery.
- Creates relaxation
- Reduces anxiety
- Diminishes pain
- Improves blood flow to the kidneys, intestines, brain and feet
- Decreases heart rate and blood pressure
- Increases oxygen saturation and lowers respiratory rate
- Improves the body overall by helping every part of it
- Improves the functioning of the kidneys (waste product removal, anemia prevention, infection fighting)
- Impacts the digestive system of healthy individuals and relieves constipation in children, women, and the elderly
- Eases difficult urination for men and incontinence in women
- Eases PMS and menopause for women and prostate problems for men • improves workings of the immune system.