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REFLEXOLOGY and PAIN

WHAT IS PAIN

To define PAIN - one has to experience PAIN - to be able to explain this unpleasant sensation. It is ones' own personal unpleasant feeling to the cause.

PAIN is a sensation caused by stimulation of the sensory nerve endings - that we recognize - feel - when our body tells us we are hurting. If our circulation is slightly impaired - obstructed - injured - diseased - our body tells us by aches and pains. PAIN is a valuable information data tool for evaluating underlying disorders.

PAIN maybe mild - severe - chronic - acute - burning - dull - sharp. Its onset may be sudden or slow. PAIN reflected and felt in one area can be from a disorder in a different region - this pain is transferred and relocated by neural pathways - transmitting PAIN impulses. The individual response to PAIN differs greatly - depending on ones' physical and psychological factors - like fear - anxiety - shock - pain threshold.

PAIN afflicts us in many ways - from minor scrapes - headaches - disease - muscles - joints - injuries - lack of excerise - grief. How we deal with it is up to the individual. Our PAIN threshold and tolerance levels cause the body to go into a PAIN mode cycle - sometimes PAIN inflicted on the body is too severe and too great to bear - the conscious mind shuts down and the body and goes into shock - or unconscious state of mind. This is the only way the body can endure and survive the severity of immense pain. The body rejects what it doesn't like - it doesn't like PAIN - so it closes off and deals with it in its own natural way.

PAIN signals are transmitted along nerve pathways via the spinal cord. PAIN is an amazing body function - it has its own antidote - the natural response of the body is to produce pain relieving substances - called endorphins - the human bodys' natural PAIN killers.These inhibit neurotransmitters in the pathway for PAIN perception thereby reducing emotional as well as the physical impact of PAIN. Sometimes these natural PAIN killers are insufficient to protect against PAIN - that is why - at times - the body needs a helping hand in the form of medication and therapy.

REFLEXOLOGY and PAIN

The application of REFLEXOLOGY pressure techniques stimulate the nerve endings - transmitting signals from the feet via the spinal cord to the brain -  encouraging the amazing human body system to produce more endorphins. This is the bodys' natural antidote - comforting process - interrupting the PAIN cycle - relaxing - easing PAIN.

PAIN is suffered by every indiviaual on the planet at some stage over ones' life span. To eliminate - or lesson PAIN improves quality of life. REFLEXOLOGY is a manual therapy - working with the body systems own natural PAIN mechanism - stimulating and encouraging the body to ease PAIN in its own natural way. No invasive medicines.

REFLEXOLOGY works with the bodys' own natural resources - not against them.

We look on PAIN as "Our enemy " - but PAIN is actually "Our friend" - its a messenger - like a second sense - giving us a warning that something is wrong in our body. So respect PAIN.