Reflexotherapy is a method of treatment in which the recovery occurs due to exposure to biologically active points (BATs) located in certain parts of the body and associated with certain systems of the body and organs. The motherland of the technique is China - there reflexology is fully recognized by traditional medicine.
Types of reflexotherapy
The impact on BAT is carried out in different ways:
- by means of needles (acupuncture or acupuncture);
- finger pads (acupressure or acupressure);
- electric pulses (microcurrent reflexotherapy);
- vacuum (banks);
- magnetic field (magnetopuncture);
- laser;
- ultrasound.
Traditional medicine of the West has recognized the method of microcurrent reflexology, which will be discussed below.
Healing Currents
Active points are affected by ultra-small electrical impulses, and currents also affect the areas of projection of the cerebral cortex on the scalp, neuroreflex zones. Studies and practice have shown that such treatment contributes to the emergence of physiological dominants in neural networks of the nervous system, while the work of certain functions of the central nervous system affected by pathology is selectively restored.
Microcurrent reflexotherapy is used to relieve pain, but mainly for rehabilitation of children with developmental delays (motor, speech, mental, psycho-speech in autism) and with neuropsychic diseases. The method gives a good result when dealing with:
- attention deficit disorder;
- Cerebral palsy;
- hydrocephalus;
- partial atrophy of the optic nerve ;
- enuresis and the like.
Electropunctural reflexotherapy has contraindications: treatment is inadmissible in acute infectious and chronic somatic diseases, oncology.
Reflexotherapy at home
Action on BATs is possible with the help of exercises:
- Sit on the floor, bend your knees, and press your palms against each other and keep at the chest level. Knees turn one way, spine - in the other. Repeat 20 times.
This gymnastics-reflexotherapy helps with osteochondrosis . - Tightly press the palms of your hands into the auricles and massage them in a circular motion. Big fingers move behind the ears, affecting the zones located there. Perform 40 movements each morning. Gymnastics normalizes blood pressure. People with a damaged eardrum have this acupressure contraindicated.
No less useful is foot massage, which has a restorative effect, because on the soles are located BATs, responsible for the health of all body systems.