Reflexology as a First Aid Treatment

Keven & Barbara Kunz are known throughout both the community of Professional Reflexologist, Alternative Health and even Traditional Healthcare for their Research and books on the subject og Reflexology. Today you are getting one of their articles on the use of Reflexology as a treatment in First Aid.

Greetings! Should reflexology be seriously considered as a first aid treatment to meet emergency situations? It has been our experience and the experience of others that, yes, reflexology technique is a valid and, at times, life saving procedure. Reflexology should be studied for its capacity in emergency intervention.

Call A Reflexologist When someone fainted during Sabbath services at a synagogue in Israel, the call went out for a member of the congregation who is a reflexologist to help-not a doctor. The reflexologist applied the standard reflexology first aid technique for such an incident-making several contacts with the man's big toe-and brought him around. Knowing that Kevin had previously written about the technique, a reflexologist wrote to tell us of the incident. Since she had never learned the technique, she asked for instructions so she too could answer the call should the need ever arise. It is a straightforward story and a simple request with so many interesting ramifications: (1) reflexology purposed for first aid; (2) the place of reflexology in the minds of Israelis where reportedly patients visiting a doctor's office first see the reflexologist for an assessment/diagnosis and then the doctor and (3) the original article written to note use of the technique for revival in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. Kevin Kunz Reflexology Research Project