Reflexology: Reflexology Benefits

hello I'm Bill Flo from the American Academy of reflexology in Los Angeles California and we're going to talk a little bit about the benefits of reflexology let's think about pain most pain is caused by tightness in the body it might be in the jaw it might be in the neck or shoulders it might be in the lower back it might be in the in inner abdomen or other places so unless it's been an injury from a car accident or something like that most pain is caused by prolonged I over too long a period of time and what reflexology does is it helps from the inside out to help reduce the effects of tension to help soothe the nerves to help relax the muscles so for example if somebody has discomfort in their neck reflexology is profoundly valuable especially through the ears and the reflexes for the neck on the ears of helping the neck to feel much better to relax and to ease off the pain same for the shoulders that if somebody has shoulder pain between the especially the ears and the feet foot reflexology it's wonderful for relieving pain and discomforts let's say for example lower back or knees people who suffer from lower back discomforts or have strained their their knees or hurt their kneecap uh a lot of people report tremendous pain relief from having reflexology on the feet hands and ears now that's for a lot of muscular skeletal and some internal pain a lot of times there's not pain things inside the body don't work right for example the lungs so if the lungs aren't working right say somebody has a respiratory problem or they're having some problems in their stomach or their gallbladder or they're having a lot of constipation and diarrhea and internal lower abdominal issues there are many many studies showing how reflexology helps to relieve a lot of these internal effects of stress on the inner chest inner abdomen and uh and of course muscular skeletal as we said so I'm Bill Flo director of the American Academy of reflexology in Los Angeles California