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Apr 05 2017

Chronic Back Pain Anyone?

Studies document that chronic pain affects more people in the United States, and incurs greater costs than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined. I’ll repeat that: Chronic pain affects more people in the United States and incurs greater costs than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined. There are an estimated 100 million people in the United States living with chronic pain, most of the back, headaches or arthritis. [i]

To compound the problem, opiates and other drugs do a poor job of relieving much chronic pain and can result in serious risks, including addiction.

Two participants in last year’s Therapeutic Hand & Foot Reflexology Professional Certification decided to research whether regular reflexology would help two women who have suffered from back pain for years.

Read Eleanor Miles study here and Rebecca Tate’s here.

[i] Scientific American, December 2014

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Written by Karen Ball · Categorized: Foot Reflexology, Hand Reflexology, Research · Tagged: Hand reflexology, Foot reflexology, Research

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