REFLEXOLOGY: How often do you end up asking for a Dr's letter?

[stile_usm]

as a reflexologist clients often come because they are in discomfort or pain....yet so many medical conditions require a Dr's certificate/letter to say its ok to treat a client. How is this accepted by the client? It must be a bit anoying to want a treatment and have to go away with a letter for their Dr to sign before they can have a treatment. I can see many clients not bothering and not comming back.

 

[What Will The Spill Kill?]

The relief I got from reflexology was only temporary and after a little while I gave up on it because it really didn't help. Instead, I took acupuncture--and that helped me a great deal. I do believe that it depends on what causes the pain in order to achieve results with reflexology. In my case the pain was caused by unknown reasons and acupuncture was the solution.....

 

[JLI]

I agree with you, that they would not come back. Conventional medicine has moved away from eminence based medicine to evidence based medicine. It is simply not enough that some popular person says he can work wonders.

Attempts have been made to see if reflexology really could do something on its own - to check if evidence could be established.

One study ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11068346 ) found that:

1) Experienced reflexologists were unable to detect presence/absence of specific conditions - even when they have a list to choose from.
2) Experienced reflexologists were unable to agree among themselves if specified conditions were present or not.

Also it's effectiveness as treatment has been tested, and it has been found to be ineffective. Here is a review of the available studies: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/191_05_070909/ern10490_fm.html

Based on the evidence, it would be malpractice to refer patients with real diseases to reflexologists.

 

[Dr_ Stormy NZ Osteopath]

Primary care practitioners do not need the clearance of an MD to treat a patient. Reflexologists might do unless they are otherwise qualified in another primary care practice such as osteopathy, chiropractic, Physiotherapy or medical physician.
I think it would be almost impossible to harm a patient doing reflexology on their feet.
The rulings exist to protect the practitioner more than the patient in this case. if the reflexologist didn't get clearance for some medical conditions they could be sued even if the patient was not harmed.

Stainless Steel rat, who cares what you think? You are an irrelevance that knows almost nothing about healthcare and even less about alternative medicine. You should stick to giving engineering advice and leave medicine to people that actually know what they are talking about.

 

[Ryan Knows Everything]

I'm surprised any doctors OK treatment by medically unqualified quacks.