Friday, January 19, 2024

New title: Reflexology and Mechanical Ventilation


Why write a book about reflexology research and mechanical ventilation? I couldn’t help myself. The search for information was so fascinating. The results showing what reflexology could do were so dramatic.

It started when we were working with neuroscientist Dr. Stefan Posse of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine preparing for research, finding out what happens as foot reflexology is applied during brain scans, fMRI imaging. Stefan had asked about reflexology research of medical topics. I started looking.

I discovered 75 to 80 studies of reflexology applied to hospital patients from the maternity ward, the cardiac care unit and beyond. It was, however, the height of the Covid pandemic and the sight of patients on mechanical ventilation filled the news and evoked all sorts of emotions from empathy to dread. I zeroed in on the studies I had found about ICU patients on mechanical ventilation following surgery or hospitalized for various causes.

There in the research was a surprise: reflexology got people off ventilators sooner. Amazing. How? Why? 

I kept going. I would discover a lot. How surgery, mechanical ventilation and hospitalization present life-threatening problems. The anxieties faced by patients. The challenges facing critical care nurses. What is important to help patients survive. 

I found out more, more about reflexology itself. All those things we reflexologists know are right and were reaffirmed. Yes, reflex areas do matter. Yes, selecting the right reflex areas does matter. That, yes, dosing, the appropriate amount of reflexology does matter. 

Then there was, why would this be? How and why would reflexology help in such a critical situation? It all went back to: how does reflexology work? There are answers to those questions, fun to explore.

And, finally, it occurred to me: these studies had more to say. More to say about how reflexology provides the opportunity for us to help: help our clients, ourselves and virtually anyone with a health concern.

 

Yes, this is a book about reflexology research of patients supported by mechanical ventilation. But sometimes, when you least expect it, you get more than you could have ever imagined. 

Barbara Kunz

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