Reflexology Research and Mechanical Ventilation

What can reflexology do to benefit:
critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation,
hospitalized patients,
health seeking individuals?
Research has the answers.

Information discovered during reflexology research of mechanically ventilated ICU patients
provides some surprising answers.
Research found positive results for critically ill patients supported by mechanical
ventilation who received an appropriate dose of reflexology:
• Shortening time spent on mechanical ventilation
stabilization of physiological parameters
• reduction of anxiety and agitation
lessening the need for drugs and sedation
• Improving time for retum to consciousness by patients following brain surgery
From these results can be extrapolated ramifications for the uses of reflexology:
Reflexology theory and ideas: the possibilities of specific physical and psychological effects of
reflexology when it is applied to specific reflex areas.
Reflexology and dosing: how much and where reflexology technique is applied to create
specific results.
Health seeking possibilities: maintain a healthy level of physiological parameters, reduce
anxiety, potential of lessening use of drugs to meet physical and psychological concerns
Medical applications of reflexology: make evidence-based predictions about medical
applications of reflexology.
Barbara and Kevin Kunz are reflexologists, researchers and authors of 26 books published in 23
languages. Kunz and Kunz researched  in 2023 at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine
shows what happens as foot reflexology is applied during MRI brain scans.