Anxiety and reflexology
Generalized anxiety disorder (or GAD) is characterized by excessive, wide anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry. People with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder tend to always expect disaster and can't stop worrying about health, money, family, work, or school. In people with GAD, the worry often is unrealistic or out of proportion for the situation. Daily life becomes a constant state of worry, fear, and dread. Eventually, the anxiety so dominates the person's thinking that it interferes with daily functioning, including work, school, social activities, and relationships. It is very diffused in developed countries.
It is mainly a psychoogical theme, reflexology is not the main cure (the easy "solution") but may help in relaxing and keeping body systems balanced.
Reflexology and stress
According to some Chinese and Duke University Medical Center studies reflexology improves body reactions to stress, expecially circulation and heart.
Some reserahces about effects of reflexology on PTSD (post traumatic stress disorders) showed a reduction in medication by about 50% (Meier Teichman, PhD (Clinical Psychologist and Head of Tel Aviv's University's Bob Shapell School of Social Work) and Scmuel Zaidel, "Experimental Treatment in Reflexology with Severe, Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder," Institute of Human Ecology)
Reflexology and pain
Pain can be chronic or sporadic as it can be present in any location in the body where there are nerves, and in the cases where people have had amputations, there is even phantom pain. Some of the more common types of chronic and periodic pain include muscle and joint pain, back and neck pain, and neuropathic pain. These types of pain can be caused by trauma or degeneration due to age, illness, or genetics. There are more than 20 causes of body pain, they may be medical or psychological (psychosomatic).
Reflexology is NOT useful for all them, some requires strictly medical action. For some kinds of pain reflexology may be of good relief, knowing that it requires some time as it is not so fast as chemical drugs (but less dangerous of them) as it try to act on causes not on symptoms.
Among the most common are migraine pains, reflexology may be very helpful according to the nature of hedaches.
