Bonneville America Forums Forums Off Topic Discussion Forums Lounge Anyone had any experience of Reflexology

When I was a kid, my mates dad used to coach our football team. I particularly remember one time when my foot was sore and he gave me a foot massage at the side of the pitch. When I got back up it felt as if all of the bones in my foot had been separated and it was like walking on a cushion. Sadly it was only one foot ! Ever since then I have meant to get me a proper foot massage but 'massage parlours' around here are not particularly geared for rubbing that sort of foot ! ()

many years later I was on a flight in the US from Philly to Newport News and I had a storming headache. A woman in the next seat heard me ask the flight attendant for some asprin but she said she couldn't give me any. The woman next to me asked if I'd mind her curing it for me. Who was I to argue ? Anyway she pinched the skin between my thumb and forefinger on my right hand and my headache disappeared almost instantaneously. She explained that it was Reflexology and was most effective when practiced on the feet.

So, is Reflexology just a respectable name for a foot massage and is it nice to have ?

Look for a massage therapist instead of a massage parlor. A properly trained and licensed massage therapist should have training in reflexology. Being a yank I don't know about the U.K. but in U.S. massage therapists are required to pass state exams that certify they are qualified to practice massage therapy before they can legally open a practice. It is a holistic type of medical discipline. I would think you guys would have some around.

reflexology is a proper treatment if you go into google and put it with you town you will get all the local people who do it. same as cryopratices (for you back )who i have used.i think its about £25 £50 per treatment but you only have to go once if you want.

Massage parlours will give your toe a blow job but thats about it for your feet i should think.

It used to be that if traditional medicine did not comprehend something, then it must be bad. Things change when results cannot be denied.

Modern medicine is beginning to embrace techniques once thought to be quackery. They call them "alternative medicine." Once hospital I visited had an entire department offering various means beyond traditional slice & medicate.

I know of the pinchingtheskinbeteenthumbandfinger thing and it really works. But doesn't work for toothache. Stamping on your foot works for that!

Reflexology - a friend goes to a reflexologist and swears by it. I've had a session, which was very relaxing, but begrudge paying for things like that.

Irony is it may help with my back...

When my back is sore i grab the Glenfiddich

Sounds to me like another name for acupressure. You might find more if you look up that term.

Pretty similiar. I think acupressure is more body wide and focuses on pressure point manipulation more than reflexology.

Soren

Actually, I used a medicine man from the the local Kiowa tribe...he had the latest in "spiritual rattles" cured me right-up ! Loved the mushroooom tea !!!

i'm gonna go out on a limb here, and speak for yota, as well as myself,,,WE LIKE MASSAGE PARLORS,,, they MIGHT make you forget your other problems!!![tune me up if necessary, yota]

Now here is a dilemma.....

My son's girlfriend is a Beautician and works for a Hotel chain which offers beauty services to female guests, and when he saw me looking on the internet for Reflexology, he told me that it includes foot massage and REFLEXOLOGY. (two different things apparently) that she is qualified to do.

He said that she regularly does both to his feet (he is diabetic and a runner so has to take extra care of his feet) and he says it is very relaxing and he said that she would 'do' my feet if I asked her.

I have met her about a dozen times and get on well with her, but asking her for a foot massage !!!!

I think I might ask her if I could book an appointment at her work knowing that it is women only, and hope that she says "it's women only at work but I can 'do' yours here if you want ?". I'll offer to pay as well.

The worst she can say is "sorry, women only" and I can then ask if she knows where I could go.



If she does offer, could I be cheeky and ask for both massage and a Reflexology session !



Must remember not to ask for 'extras'