Greetings!
Reflexology is experiencing explosive growth as this research from Yano Research demonstrates. The figures are in the billions in Japan.
Also it isn't too early to start thinking about gifts for the holidays. Total Reflexology has been just released from Barnes and Noble. Everybody who sees the kit wants one to give as a gift or keep it for themselves.
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Total Reflexology Kit and More
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 Give the Gift of Health
- This kit was a lot of fun to do. It has a full size book
in it and it has a complete set of tools to make your reflexology
experience a total experience. Two years in the making this kit has it
all.
- Socks and gloves with the reflex areas marked on them.
- A fully illustrated hardcover book with a spiral binding so it can lay flat.
- A foot roller
- A reflex ball
- An illustrated, laminated chart of both hands and feet
All this for $14.95 Exclusively at Barnes and Noble Read More |
| Reflexology Research and Phantom Pain |
Reflexology Makes Significant Difference
For amputees experiencing phantom limb pain, a 30- week study found that reflexology work made a highly significant difference and was "effective in eradicating or reducing the intensity and duration of phantom limb pain." Seven men and 3 women "with unilateral lower limb amputations and a history of phantom limb pain" followed a five phase program. They kept a weekly pain diary in addition to under-going: a six week period of a base line of pain diary keeping; six weekly reflexology session; a six-week rest phase; a six week teaching phase and a six-week self help (hand reflexology) phase. Positive results followed the reflexology session, teaching and self-help phases.
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Reflexology in Japan
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 Billion Dollar Markets
"Tokyo (JCN Yano Research Institute (YRI) conducted a survey on integrative medicine in Japan from September to November in 2005."
"The survey showed that the market for integrative medicine reached 2,358.6 billion yen ($20.3 bil) in 2004, a 17% rise from 2002. Particularly, the sectors for reflexology, psychotherapy/counseling, kinesitherapy and health food showed sound growth. The market is expected to exceed 5 trillion yen ($43.1 bil) in 2013."
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The Editor's Point of View
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 A Stumble Caught in Time
A famous neurologist once called a footstep "a stumble caught in time". The art of walking takes an enormous amount of communication from our brain to the foot and the foot ot the brain. It also requires the integration of our balance mechanism into this whole process. If this any of this fails we fall. It is that simple.
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Oregon Reflexologists Freed from Massage Requirements
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Thanks to the efforts of Janice Robertson and members of the Reflexology Association of Oregon, reflexologists are now free to practice in their state without massage licensing. Following their
efforts to guide legislation through the Oregon state legislature, Governor Kulonosky signed into law an exemption of relexology from regulation by the Oregon Board of Massage Therapists on June 11, 2007. |
