Reflex Points to Relieve Fibromyalgic Symptoms

Reflexology is a therapeutic technique in which pressure and massage are applied to specific spots on the feet and/or hands that match up to other places and organs throughout the body. A trained reflexologists will determine which spots to rub in order to provide patients with the targeted therapy, determined by their own needs, symptoms and types of pain.

Reflex Points to Relieve Fibromyalgic Symptoms

1. To Improve Mental Clarity
Head & Brain reflexes – the medial and lateral sides and the top of the big toes. As well as helping to aid memory and reduce fatigue, this can encourage restful sleep.

Balance – found against the base of the fourth toe, this is an important point to work if your symptoms include nausea and dizziness.

2. To Reduce Fatigue and Improve Sleep
Pituitary – This reflex is found in the centre of the plantar surface of the big toe. The pituitary gland governs the activities of all other endocrine glands.

Pineal & Hypothalamus – both these reflex areas are found on the plantar surface of the big toe close to the edge of the nail.

Adrenals – this reflex is painful in most people (which also makes it easy to find) – it is a small area about the size of your thumb found on the plantar surface of the arch of the foot about halfway down the foot and between the first and second toes.

Thyroid – found on the plantar surface of the foot on the fleshy ‘ball’ of the foot between your first and second toes.

3. To Improve Your Mood
Working the reflexes listed above will also help to improve your mood, however it can be invaluable for clients to learn how to find their solar plexus point so that they can start to help themselves during the time between reflexology treatments.

Solar Plexus – An essential point to encourage relaxation. This point is found on the plantar surface of the foot just under the ball of the foot and between the second and third toes.

4. For Pain Relief
Joints are often particularly painful, working the reflex areas associated with the following can be a great relief:

Shoulders – the fleshy ball of the foot immediately under the smallest toe on the plantar surface of the foot. Most people have crystalline deposits here.

Knees, Elbows, Hips – work down the lateral edge of the foot from the smallest toe to the ankle, stopping to rotate above and below each bony prominence.

Jaw/facial area – found just below the nail of the big toe on both feet. Focus on this area if you experience TMJ pain.

Spinal reflexes – found on the medial side of both feet, the spinal reflex area is most closely linked to the nervous system and will be particularly effective in providing pain relief.