Angela O'Pry is a Certified Reflexologist with 60 hours in training in the Egyptian Method of Reflexology from Digits International.

What is Reflexology?

Reflexology is massaging specific areas of the hands or feet for the purpose of relieving the stress or pain in corresponding areas of the body.

*(Encyclopedia of Reflexology: A Working Professional's  Text written by Lynn Thomas Nelson, C.R. & Gail Leslie Nelson, R.N., B.S.N.)

How Reflexology Works

There are are over 7,000 nerve endings on the bottom of each foot. Stimulation of these nerve endings sends signals along the spinal cord, and up to the thalamus gland in the brain, which produces its own opiate-like painkillers called endorphins. Reflexology stimulates the body's own pain killing system.

It is the nervous system's reaction to this stimuli that begins the process of releasing painkillers  from the brain into the blood stream to be distributed throughout the body.

*(Encyclopedia of Reflexology: A Working Professional's  Text written by Lynn Thomas Nelson, C.R. & Gail Leslie Nelson, R.N., B.S.N.)