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Evidence- based research has become the catch phrase for the new direction in both medicine and complementary/ alternative medicine. It describes a way to weed out fact from opinion. It is increasingly making a difference in how medical dollars are being spent so research that is evidence-based takes on a new urgency for all CAM practitioners.
Multiple Sclerosis has been helped with reflexology according to a recent study. The researchers had some problems with the study in that the participants didn't return to the baseline reading after a 4 week pause.
Texas is in turmoil again over new legislation. How this will effect reflexologists is open to debate. Texas again!!!
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Evidence-Based Reflexology
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Evidence-based reflexology is fit for the times.
Long applied by medical practitioners, evidence basing has become the focus for care in budget-strained times. Proof that patients are treated effectively has become a part of calls for health care's future. In addition, people concerned about health care costs, consider and investigate where they can turn for meeting health goals. As shown by the material presented in the Evidence-Based Reflexology series, reflexology is rising to meet evidence-based standards, showing reflexology to be efficacious and safe for application to client concerns.
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Reflexology Research of Multiple Sclerosis
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 Reflexology made a difference in various measures of anxiety for individuals with multiple sclerosis. Positive effects followed each session and over the six week treatment phase. Significant changes were reported. The effects of reflexology were compared to those of progressive muscle relaxation and there was found to be "limited evidence of difference between the two treatments." Researchers note a difference in favor of reflexology for measures of State Anxiety Inventory values as well as cortisol levels.
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Illustration depicts Multiple Sclerosis lesions before the disease had been described
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Confusion for Texas Reflexologists
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 Confusion and controversy reign in Texas as debate swirls around decisions made or not made by the Department of State Health Services (DSHS). There is no massage board in Texas. Regulation of massage and other health care practices is carried out by the DSHS. A change in the definition of "massage therapy" was included in a bill recently passed by the state's legislature and signed
by the governor.
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