Pilot Study

In 1995, I came to work with the Community Holistic Health Center at Carrboro, NC (later, the Center moved to Hillsborough.) At that time, the Center's board of directors was about making its strategic development plans and I suggested a research program on Reflexo-therapy. After consulting a lawyer and getting information on human subjects rules from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and after practically all board members and stuff tried and loved the applicator, the project was accepted and in 1997 we had our pilot study completed. We followed up 200 of my patients who used the Applicator and asked them to fill out our simple questionnaire. The amazingly many of them, 126, answered our questions. The five most frequently reported reasons for using the Applicator were stress, pain, muscle spasms, mood swings and insomnia. Overall, we had an astonishing spectrum of reasons why people were using the Applicator: lack of energy, mood swings, insomnia, impotence, asthma, varicose veins, hypoglycemia, skin condition, inflammation, weight problem, fast heart beat, nasal or sinus congestion, fear or panic attack, allergies. Out of our 126 subjects, 98% reported pain relief, 96% reported relaxation, 94% improvement in the quality of sleep, and 81% reported an increase in energy level. Approximately half of the subjects with allergy problems reported their symptoms' relief. Among those who tested the method while having no particular health problems, more than a half nevertheless reported one or more positive effects of the Applicator. On the next chart, the bars represent the number of people reported positive effects (purple) or absence of effects (blue) after 3 weeks of using the device (left to right) for: • Relaxation • Pain relief • Sleep quality • Energy level