What are the health benefits of Reflexology? (Foot Massage)?

How often should one get a massage?

Relaxation! It feels good and that's enough benefit for me. As for how often one should get a massage, the answer is easy: as often as possible, daily at least. (OK, so I'm dreaming, but my family knows how into relaxation I am that I got a total of 6 hours of hot stone massage and reflexology.)

The people who said there are no benefits and it is a bunch of crap are full of crap themselves and need to pick up a book and read it or talk to people who actually have reflexology done instead of talking about stuff they don't know anything about. Report It

I don't see any benefit at all, my hands hurt after a while when my wife makes me massage her feet.

Reflexology is a bunch of crap. The only "benefits" reported are more than likely a combination of placebo (things work because the patient thinks they do) or relaxation/reduced stress from a nice massage.

People usually get better on their own, without doing anything. However, whatever random treatment they attempted usually gets the credit. This is how anecdotal evidence becomes substantiated and folk remedies are perpetuated.

JKDMed,
MSI (Med Student)