Everybody loves a good foot rub. But did you know foot massage dates back to ancient Egypt and China? That’s right, over 5,000 years ago our ancestors were rubbing each other’s feet. In the late 1800s, Europeans invented reflexology: applying pressure to a person’s feet (or hands) in order to affect a physical change to …
How reflexology is beneficial for children and teenagers for their physical, emotional and mental well-being? These days children and teenagers are now under more pressure than ever to perform well and achieve. This places their physical, mental and emotional health under constant duress. Not only this, the ever increasing (but not always truly known or …
Peer-reviewed medical research has shown that the benefits of massage include pain relief, reduced trait anxiety and depression, and temporarily reduced blood pressure, heart rate, and state of anxiety. Additional testing has shown an immediate increase and expedited recovery periods for muscle performance. Theories behind what massage might do include blocking nociception (gate control theory), activating …
