Tuesday 9 July 2013

Meaning of “Blind Study”


This study was what is called a “Single Blind” study. What this means is that the research assistants needed to know ahead of time which women were in the Active Reflexology Group so they would give this group of women the real reflexology session, and which women were in the Placebo Control Group so they would give this other group of women the fake reflexology session. This means that the practitioner was not “blind” to which of the two groups each woman belonged.

The women did not know if they were in the Active Reflexology Group or the Placebo Control Group. So the women were “blind” to which group they were in. Saying it more briefly; the practitioners were not blind (they knew which group each woman was in); the women were blind (they did not know which group they were in). This makes it a single blind study.

If both the practitioners and the women did not know which group each woman was in, that would have made it a double blind study, difficult to accomplish when there are specific reflex locations involved.











7 PRINCIPLES OF INTEGRATION


After the first four days (28 Hours) of our Beginning Foot Hand Ear Reflexology Class, a large amount of time is spent, hands-on, learning a variety of ways of Integrating Foot Hand Ear Reflexology into the same Reflexology Session, depending on clients needs. We go extensively into the 7 Principles of Integrating Foot Hand Ear Reflexology.

7 Principles of Integrating Foot Hand Ear Reflexology

Principle # 1
Working with any one Reflexology map – Feet, Hands, or Ears - provides good results.

Principle # 2
Working with any two Reflexology maps – Feet, Hands, Ears – during the same session, provides better results.

Principle # 3
Working with all three Reflexology maps – Feet, Hands, and Ears – during the same session,
provides even better results.
 
Principle # 4
Working with all three Reflexology maps – Feet, Hands, Ears – during the same session, applying the Principles of Integration, provides best results.

Principle # 5
Knowing which is 1st, 2nd, & 3rd in effectiveness – Feet, Hands, Ears -especially when there is pain in the related part of the body, and work on all three during each session.

Priority Reflexing – General Patterns
Priority Reflexing – Specific Patterns
 
Principle # 6
Repeat Reflexing during the same session.

Principle # 7
Combine Somatic (Body) Reflexes from all three – Feet, Hands, and Ears - as well as appropriate Master Points & Functional Points on the Ears.


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Monday 1 July 2013

Reflexology For Neck Pain& Range-of-Motion

A Burbank, California housewife we will call Merl, had a neck so stiff she had to turn her whole body to look either side.After three Reflexology Sessions and some Self-Help Reflexology, Merl regained full range-of-motion of her neck for the first time in twelve years.

This case of relief of pain and stiffness from Reflexology is dramatic only regarding the length of time Merl suffered.  It is quite common for people to report relief of neck pain within a few sessions of Reflexology.

The Flocco Method – Integrating Foot Hand Ear Reflexology is based on the   principle that in each of these three places - ears, hands and feet - you have a complete pressure map in a shape of the human body. When you put pressure with your fingers and thumbs on these Reflexology Maps, it is something like going to a wall and turning the light switch.  Although you are touching the light switch on the wall, the effect is seen on the light in the ceiling. So too, by properly refluxing the appropriate parts of the ears, hands and feet for the neck, relief of pain, stress, and range-of-motion issues, is often reported.

Over thirty years of working with feet, hands, and ears has shown that each is better for pain in different parts of the body.

Where to reflex first is called Priority Reflexing. For neck pain, go to the neck reflexes in the ears first, found above the ear lobes at the base of the hard cartilage, called the inner ridge. Hold between the pads of your fingers and thumbs with firm nurturing pressure.

Where to reflex first, second, and third is called Progression Reflexing. After reflexing the neck reflexes on the ears, progress to neck reflexes in the feet, located in the two-thirds of the toes closest to the feet, especially around the big toes.

Third progress to the neck reflexes in the hands, found in the two thirds of thefingers closest to the hands, especially around the thumbs. 

Start with lighter pressure between the softer surface tissues and harder deeper tissues, until the deeper tissue softens and invites you to work deeper.

Remember the importance of drinking extra water to flush out any toxins released while reflexing. For serious health conditions also remember the value of your primary health care provider.

And as you have seen with the Flocco Method – Integrating Foot Hand Ear Reflexologyrelief can literally be at your fingertips, and, you can use it anytime and anywhere. 

Until we chat again in our next article, like Merl,you too can learn how to give relief of neck pain through Reflexology.

BILL FLOCCO is Founder Director of The American Academy of Reflexology. Teaching The Integration of Foot Hand Ear Reflexology Since 1982. www.AmericanAcademyorReflexology.com (818) 841-7741

More information please visit site  www.americanacademyofreflexology.com.