Reflex Areas Do Matter

Reflex Areas Do Matter

What happens when reflexology is applied to critically ill ICU patients breathing with the help of mechanical ventilation after surgery and/or while hospitalized? Reflexology Research and Mechanical Ventilation, the new book from Barbara Kunz, describes and analyzes the results from ten studies looking at this question.

A rare opportunity is provided by the ability to examine researched results from ten studies in one subject area. Of interest is the opportunity to compare and contrast what happens when reflexology is applied to different reflex areas for the same patient concerns.

Discovered: reflex areas do matter. Reflexology applied to particular reflex areas helped patients supported by mechanical ventilation improve more than other reflex areas. For example, following heart surgery patients who received foot reflexology technique application to heart, lung, solar plexus and diaphragm reflex areas were removed from ventilator support a full hour more quickly than those whose foot reflexology work was applied to heart and lung reflex areas.

Reflex areas do matter. Shortening time on mechanical ventilation has implications for patients. The less time spent on ventilation, the less concern for patient problems and complications. 

 

The studies also draw attention to the importance of reflex area selection for other areas of concern in the care of patients on mechanical ventilation. There is the value of such information to any of us as reflexologists, health-interested individuals and caregivers to hospitalized patients. Why would that be?

For example, one area of research in multiple studies, physiologic parameters, are of interest in the pursuit of health to all of us and our reflexology clients. These parameters are indicators of how well systems of our bodies are working. Signalled also are the physiological signs of anxiety: heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and respiratory rate. Several studies found significant differences for the physiologic parameters between those who received reflexology and those who did not.

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