It sounds like an oxymoron, but Therapeutic Reflexology can offer benefits to surgical patients. Read more in today’s post.
Putting the terms surgery and reflexology in the same title appears to be an oxymoron because surgery is an invasive procedure while Therapeutic Reflexology is a non-invasive therapy. When talking about surgical reflexology, it is not to indicate that Therapeutic Reflexology offers surgical intervention, but instead to indicate that patients that are undergoing or have undergone surgery, may benefit from Therapeutic Reflexology as a complementary therapy.
Surgeons are highly trained medical specialists with the ability to use their skills to treat a patient invasively by changing structures in the human body. Surgery is invasive and is usually the last option in medical treatment, although sometimes it is the only option and crucial to save a life. Whether surgery is compulsory or elective, it puts the body under stress; not only due to possible fear and anxiety for the procedure but also afterward as the body has to heal. It is in these instances where Therapeutic Reflexology can offer tremendous benefit for surgical patients; in the ability to help the body heal and that is also why Therapeutic Reflexology is an amazing complementary therapy that does not interfere with the medical or surgical treatment and works complementary to such treatments.
Having had my fair share of surgical procedures in the past, let me write from a personal perspective. Going into an operating theatre is usually a stressful situation and it does increase emotions like fear, anxiety, and stress. It is not always due to a fear of death, although many people do deal with the fear of going into surgery and never waking up again. For me, it has personally never been about that, but rather due to increased anxiety and stress relating to the pain that usually accompanies surgery, especially if you cannot use pain medication afterward. Whenever I went for surgery, I never had a problem when I was under general anesthesia while sleeping through the surgery, but what has increased my levels of stress, was when I had to be awake during painful and uncomfortable procedures in a theatre like when I was given an angiogram. Being awake during surgical procedures is stressful; at least, for me it was.
Therapeutic Reflexology offers one of the best destressing and relaxing therapies available and when you have to go in for surgical procedures, whether you will be awake or asleep during the procedure, it may benefit you to make an appointment to keep your stress levels under control and entering the surgery with an overall calmness instead of with heightened levels of stress and anxiety.
Whenever a person gets any type of surgery, it is usually physically stressful on the body because after the procedure the body needs to deal with the accompanying pain and recuperation time. It is in these times where Therapeutic Reflexology may also offer benefit to patients because it may assist with controlling pain levels while assisting the body to heal itself from the inside out. Your body has been designed amazingly and once anything is out of balance, it naturally works to heal itself and to restore balance, or homeostasis. Therapeutic Reflexology is a healthcare modality that works with the body to stimulate the body’s own innate healing ability and you may experience positive results from including this therapy in the recuperation time.
I have worked with numerous people that had to undergo or have undergone surgery ranging from elective surgery to cancer surgery to heart surgery to brain surgery, and the results are always fascinating. Many experience positive results and increased quality of life as a result of including Therapeutic Reflexology in their healing regimen.
If you have to undergo surgery or if you have already undergone surgery, you may want to consider a couple of Therapeutic Reflexology treatments to help increase calmness by getting emotions like fear, anxiety, and stress under control, while assisting the body to heal itself, or at least attempt to balance itself in the best possible manner.
Therapeutic Reflexology is a non-invasive healthcare therapy that complements medical and surgical treatment and does not replace it or interfere with it. If you would like to give it a try, make your appointment without delay.
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Christo A. Scheepers: Therapeutic Reflexologist
Dip.T.R.(Cum Laude) [IARAMT]
AHPCSA: A11945
Pr. No.: 1080000737453
Tel. 072-800 7243