Reflexology

Charmaine Clarke Reflexology operates out of Newmarket and the Benefits in Old Age are amazing, I am 83 years old and since treatment by the above said Lady are beyond belief, More Mobile, Less Pains, No feet or Ankle swellings, truly worth looking at her Website if you suffer in Old Age, The treatment is very relaxing so it eases Stress as well, This is an Un-Solicited Testimonial to help sufferers of Old Age! 

Let's start with the good and bad. Reflexology tends to promise the moon. They talk bout being able to diagnose through reflexive technique everything from diseases, to allergies, to which leg is longer than the other. They'll even use to prove the therapy they're using worked. So, it's exciting to see all the promise. I'd love for it to be true just like the next person. It just has some serious problems.

So it works and it doesn't work and if you understand how it works you can separate the truth from the garbage. Chiropractors talk about the science, art, and philosophy. There's usually a physiology based philosophy behind why something might work. There's the double-blind cross-over studies which make up the science of why something works, and then there's the art. The art is nothing more than the song and dance of the treatment. Surgical technique, pill or potion, and in the case of reflexology the way in which the practitioner does the muscle testing. If you've been to as many as I have you've seen a lot of different techniques all claiming there method is the best. But how do they decide which technique is best. Clinical experience. From clinical experience we get a lot of rumor. It's one step above a testimonial. So what's the good science here? Well, there are studies telling us how the placebo effect can improve or decrease muscle strength. But, it is very much based on the strength of faith for both the patient and the doctor. If the doctor's having a bad day or the patients not believing, none of it works. Try it, don't believe and it won't work. The technique they use is artistic, don't get caught up thinking one is better than another. I'm not against faith based medicine, how can any scientist be with the plethora of information on placebo? But I can think of several therapies which use this same science in a more upfront (and therefore more honest) art form. If this works for you, then keep the faith. If you're looking for spiritual healing though, there are other ways which are stronger due to their focus on calling it spiritual healing. Try it for yourself, you'll discover it's just as easy to block as it is to accept. That taints it as a diagnostic tool. And it's just not the best healing tool for this area of medicine.

Reflexology is a touch treatment that facilitates the body's own ability to heal itself by binging about homeostasis. An individual experience with uniquely individual results. Can take a course of approx 4-6 treatments before any significant difference is noticed.

I have had reflexology twice now, the second treatment being better and more informative that the first.

It is based on the fact that every section of your foot relates to somewhere else in the body and so if a certain part of your foot is sore to touch or has a grainy feel to it, that could indicate a problem elsewhere.

I think that it must take quite a while to become a trained reflexologist as the different sections of your foot seem to be very close together.

Luckily the last time I went , I was told that I had a headache and tension in my shoulders, which had probably caused the headache - which was true, I deliberately had not mentioned this during the treatment as I wanted to see if it did work!

I was quite skeptical at first as I thought that surely it wouldn't work but I was proved wrong and came out of my reflexology session feeling very relaxed but also invigorated, quite bizarre.