Clients keep asking "which reflex point is that?"

[junaid]

Hi there

I was just wondering if any reflexologists have clients who keep asking "what reflex point is that"? especially when a particular reflex feels tender to them.

Most of the time (and usually only when they ask), I explain which area I am working on but then one question leads to so many and whilst I am confident in telling them, I feel that they may not benefit from the treatment as not only do they end up talking too much but they seem to worry!!

I do reassure them but I was just wondering if there is another way round this by reassuring them.

Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks

Alka

 

[Joey .]

I used to have this problem, but now I have changed my approach to the clients slightly by not answering their questions directly - I just mention that I am not allowed to diagnose and that the point I have tweeked may well indicate that they have been a bit 'stressed/low/over-active' which has made the point sensitive. I also have music playing quietly in the background, and switch off the bright over-head light, so that they are encouraged to relax. If I am in the least bit suspicious about any points, as I was with a woman who had a very evident problem with left ovary, I asked if she experienced any mid-cycle pain (she did) andwhen she had last had a check up with her GP. She hadn't been checked in a couple of years. I gently suggested that she might want to just check that everything was OK the next time she saw him. It was, as I suspected, a cyst - the size of a walnut, but was easily dealt with via key-hole surgery.
I think reassurance is the key. I can see when a point is sensitive through their face, so generally ask them the questions first!!

 

[????? answers]

I am still training so haven't really got to this point yet, but I was just wondering - what is it you feel on the reflex that might alert youto something that may need to be checked out by the client's GP rather than the usual congestion or tender spots?

Sandra
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