FOOT REFLEXOLOGY
A foot massage that acts at a distance your pain
It relaxes you, relieves your digestive problems, circulatory, muscular, migraine.
reflexology on the foot finds its origins in China around 5000 BC Filzgerald William, an American doctor, was reintroduced in the early twentieth century, as practiced today.
The principle : Foot reflexology believes that every organ, every function of the body, every gland hormone even on the foot is associated a specific area, called "reflex". The soles of the feet represents the back of the body, and over the ventral part. The organs that are right can be found on the right foot and vice versa. Those who are at the center appear on both feet. These reflexology are touch sensitive and sometimes painful spontaneously when the organ function is disturbed. By stimulating one can get relief by reflex disorder.
Indications: Foot reflexology relieves stressed people, hypertensive insomniacs. It relieves blood circulation problems, headaches, constipation, digestive disorders, backache, muscle and joint problems, and many chronic conditions.
cons This technique is indicated in cases of thrombosis, phlebitis, and requires care in diabetes, heart disease.
The first session : The practitioner asks about your health problems and current condition you want relief. You lie down on a worktable and brushes or press certain areas of your feet with your hand and thumb, especially detecting hotspots. Then he treats these areas by specific massages: effleurage, massage rotation (hand turn) movement "caterpillar" (the thumb sequentially bends and stretches). For a migraine, it can stretch the toes until they crack, then massage and squeeze the pulp, which stimulates blood circulation and nerve in the brain. After the meetings, you can have reactions: fatigue, increased urination, skin rash. Four to six sessions (one per week initially, then spaced) may alleviate some of your chronic conditions. If it detects an organic problem, which is not within its purview, the practitioner may refer you to a specialist.
Fact Sheet: Foot reflexology is practiced by podiatrists, naturopaths, physiotherapists.
To read: "The réflexothérapeutes" MF David Retz pocket editions.
"The book of reflexology," Mireille Meunier Trédaniel editions.
"Theoretical and Practical Treatise of podo reflexology," Roland Fiete, Jolly Roger editions.
For the harmony of body and mind
These techniques erase the tensions of your body, giving you balance, mental calmness, control your emotions, concentration.
Everyone knows these pleasant states of passive relaxation, in a recliner in a bath. But as amazing as it sounds, relaxation is as active and then becomes a codified discipline that tends to pacify the mind and body.
is the case techniques of harmony of body and mind developed over millennia by the Eastern philosophies of yoga, Zen.
"It is also one of the great scientific relaxation techniques that have developed in the West early in this century, "progressive relaxation technique (Jacobson method) of the American physician Edmund Jacobson," Trainin autogenous Schultz, "the German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz," Vittoz method ", named after the Swiss doctor who has created. Other current relaxation appeared in the 60s, inspired by these techniques. The person is sometimes relaxed invited to express her feelings, as in psychoanalytic relaxations.
The principle : These techniques attempt to remove your stress while making you aware of your body and its reactions. They lead your muscle tone to the resting state, a necessary prelude to overall relaxation, physical and psychic. All these disciplines, whether traditional or modern, give a big role in balancing your breath.
Indications: The three great relaxation techniques, performed alone or in combination, can constitute forms of psychotherapy (relaxation psychotherapy) and participate in the treatment of disorders of psychic origin (stomach ulcers, hemorrhagic colitis) and neuroses. They should then be performed under strict supervision of psychotherapists.
They also, more commonly, a restorative relaxation, a stress management, emotions. Thus, methods that are based on those of Jacobson and Schultz are now mainly used by physiotherapists in rehabilitation or for psychomotor treating psychosomatic disorders (sleep problems, anxiety disorder): the method of Schultz is interesting in the subject too emotional, too contracted: phobia of examinations, stage fright .... The Vittoz method is intended mainly for nervous people, children who have difficulty concentrating, and all those who wish to improve their powers of attention and perception.
The first session : The instructor who directs the method of Jacobson makes you gradually contracting and releasing muscles throughout your voluntary locomotor while you enjoy doing, whenever, state of relaxation. The technique is slow (over months, with sessions of 30 minutes to an hour each). Long practice you will find in your body and eliminate unnecessary stress and anxiety that accompanies them. In the "Schultz autogenic training" the therapist uses your imagination to relax a decrease in muscle tone, which leads to mental relief. Learning is long: six sets of exercises to be carried out continuously over two to three months and focus on your muscles, your vascular system, your heart, your breathing, your abdominal organs and head.
In the first step of the method Vittoz, you are encouraged to perform successively all your senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste) to check the pure sensation. The teacher asks, for example, close your eyes and feel an apple. Is it smooth, rough, cool, hard? These exercises facilitate rehabilitation of the sensory brain that trigger, itself, causes muscle relaxation.
Factsheet: Higher Institute of psychomotor rehabilitation and relaxation: 9 bis, rue du Bouquet de Longchamp - 75116 PARIS. (Http://editions.campusfrance.org/etabs/par_fiche/fr/spe_isrp_fr.pdf)
Contacts: The ARDP - ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PSYCHOMOTOR - ARDP - 5 Rue Copernic - 75116 PARIS - Tel: 01 47 04 98 68
communicate the addresses of psychomotor dealing with psychosomatic disorders and psychomotor (tics, stuttering, pathological shyness in children, sleep disorders, stress, anxiety). Cost of one session (conducted on prescription) reimbursed mental health center or hospital.
To read: "Vittoz and pedagogy" social Chronicle editions.
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