Reflexology | FAQ's Reflexology - the technique of healing through compression or finger massage at specific pressure points on the feet has been in practice for a long time. Like acupuncture, it is said to have had its beginnings with the Chinese at least 5000 years ago. Reflexology, as it is known today, is an empirical method which was not deducted from theoretical considerations, but has its base in thorough observations and practical experience. The English physician, Dr. William Fitzgerald, who lived most of his professional life in the USA, discovered in about 1912 definite reflex connections throughout the body. He systematized his studies and found that the human body can be divided into ten vertical zones which terminate in the ten fingers and ten toes. Each zone of the body traverses one or more organs and the reflexes to those organs are to be found exactly in the same zone on the feet. Due to those discoveries a new method of compression massage was developed about fifty years ago by Eunice D. Ingham, a highly gifted masseuse who lived in the USA. The treatment of the reflexes of the feet has been successfully practiced on many thousands of patients throughout the world.

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