Hi Jim,

In my experience, the techniques required to get effective results
through Hand Reflexology are quite different from foot techniques. I
am fully trained and experienced in Foot, Hand and Ear Reflexology,
so naturally when I had a client who had his left leg amputated below
the knee - I resorted to what I had been told and worked his hand
instead.

I diligently worked the whole left hand and right foot. After the
session he reported no change. Btw he was experiencing phantom limb
pain, and had been doing so since he lost his leg in a motorcycle
accident some six months previously, and no-one had been able to help
him up to this point, and he was actually on a suicide watch because
of severe depression and extreme pain. The next session I worked
only hands right and left. This time he reported a very slight
difference (maybe 5%).

For his third visit - I said that I would work his right foot, and
that I would work his left foot energy field, as that was where he
was actually complaining of the incredible pain. So I started with
the right foot and completely followed my usual routine. Then I did
the same movements with my hands on where his left foot would have
been located. I must say that I did so with a lot of humour, because
I felt quite stupid and thought the whole thing would look extremely
comical to anyone looking on! However, we had absolutely nothing to
lose except the pain, and desperate circumstances call for desperate
measures.

The results were astounding. Almost immediately after the session he
said the pain had completely gone! It has now been five years, and
it has never returned. He has returned to his passion of athletics
and even after a couple of years became a para-olympian!

Quite separately I have also found that when bits of the body have
been removed, lost or were simply not present when the person was
born, the reflexes that one would usually find on them have simply
moved to another area. In my experience of over 20 years as a
Reflexologist, I have discovered that reflexes are never "missing".

It never ceases to amaze me how the human body adapts.

Lauren Slade
www.universalreflex.com



--- In reflexologycommunity@yahoogroups.com, "Jim"
<solereflexer@y...> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Leonie, for your thoughts regarding hand and foot
> reflexology for my patient with the amputated left great toe and
> first metatarsal. Like you, I believe both will be of great
benefit
> to him.
>
> However, since I have very little real experience with hand
> reflexology (other than on myself and some of my friends whom I've
> helped get rid of headaches), and many of you in this group have
> been doing this for quite some time, I'm in need of some sound
> application methods that are more effective than my best guesses.
>
> My instinct leads me to believe there are much better methods of
> applying reflexology to the hands than what I'm using.
Essentially,
> I've been applying the method I've used for foot reflexology and
> adapting it to the hands. I don't think what I'm doing is wrong,
> per se, but since the hands are more compacted and in many cases
> very tight through the palm and meaty section below the thumb, I
> need confirmation as to whether or not I'm doing this correctly and
> effectively.
>
> So, if any of you have knowledge regarding hand reflexology
> techniques or know of other sites and books that would give me a
> better understanding of the techniques used in applying reflexology
> to the hands, I'd really appreciate your input.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim