Foot Reflexology CEU Course – Outline and Learning Outcomes

As a professional massage therapist, you have a wide range of massage techniques and modalities available to you. Different clients have different needs, and you’ll employ a particular approach to each client depending on their particular condition and current state.

A client might come in who’s in the midst of an extremely stressful experience. Their primary concern is with relaxation: they want to de-stress. For this client, you might employ a simple, gentle technique, such as a form of Swedish massage.

Another client approaches you for massage therapy who’s suffered an acute injury of some kind. For them, another technique might be more appropriate.

At the same time, some clients come into your practice with chronic, long-standing issues that have plagued them for years and years. After carrying around a condition for so long, they need deep, intentional massage therapy in order to make any progress. For these clients, you may need to implement deep tissue massage, hot stones, hydrotherapy, or another modality that’s capable of addressing their chronic issues and creating space for healing.

No matter how many techniques you have under your belt, though, there’s always room to grow as a massage professional. Certain techniques are excellent to have on hand for particular conditions, or when a client isn’t responding to other modalities. Foot Reflexology is an example of just such a treatment technique.

Foot reflexology has been practiced for over 5,000 years in various forms. There are specific points that are located on the feet where a reflex mechanism exists for each organ or area on the entire body. Reflexologists assist the body to a state of health by using firm, but gentle, pressure. The effects of the Reflexology modality is designed to improve circulation while also enhancing relaxation, relieving stress and tension. In addition, Reflexology has been documented as improving nerve and blood supply, while assisting the body to return to a healthy balance of homeostasis, a state of balance and optimum health.

Are you ready to learn more about our Foot Reflexology Massage CEU course? Read on to get started.

Learning Objectives for Our Foot Reflexology Massage CEU Course

After reviewing this class’s learning outcomes, you’ll know exactly what this course can contribute to your professional toolkit. Beyond that, taking the time to read over learning outcomes like these in advance can be incredibly helpful for you as an adult learner. While adult learners are generally quite highly motivated, and although they do benefit from professional experience, their learning habits are sometimes slightly out of practice as compared to younger students. This isn’t a problem, though: by preparing yourself in advance for a class like this one, you’ll get the most out of it.

In general, this course will cover a range of topics, including but not limited to: Reflexology Effects and Benefits; Reflex Points; Horizontal Zones and Corresponding Organ Systems; and more.

Let’s hone in on each of these topics, and examine this course’s learning outcomes in detail. After completing this program, you’ll be able to confidently:

Describe Reflexology Effects and Benefits

The effects of the Reflexology modality is designed to improve circulation while also enhancing relaxation, relieving stress and tension. In addition, Reflexology has been documented as improving nerve and blood supply, while assisting the body to return to a healthy balance of homeostasis, a state of balance and optimum health. Toxins and impurities are released by increasing local circulation in the feet, hands, and ears. Reflexology acts to release and return venous and lymphatic waste back into the circulation to be flushed via the urinary system. Although Reflexology has had some great results, it is not intended to treat specific conditions or be used as a cure. Although many massage therapists know various Reflexology techniques, it is not a foot massage and is not to be confused with foot neuromuscular therapy, or NMT for short. Even though it is often an adjunct to spa treatments, Reflexology is not just a pampering technique that is used as an add-on to a pedicure. Reflexology is a stand-alone modality with many documented effects, however it is not a substitute for medical treatment.

Locate and Explain Reflex Points

Chi is the human life force of energy. In Zone Therapy, the10 zones or energy pathways exist in the body and Chi travels through these zones similar to working with meridians. We’ll discuss zones more later in this course. Our body has reflex points located on the feet, hands, and ears where energy blocks can be released by applied pressure to re-balance the body. In Reflexology, there are two basic techniques. The Walking Technique is used for working the many reflexes along each zone. The second is the Point Work Technique, used when working specific reflex points by means of two methods known as direct pressure and hook. Early forms healing arts were first noted in the Yellow Emperor’s Book of Internal Medicine over 4000 years ago in China depicting use of the Meridians or energy channels, that included 12 pathways and numerous reflex points to corresponding organs.

Describe Horizontal Zones and Corresponding Organ Systems

According to the Eastern theory, there are 12 energy channels or meridians that are duplicated on either side of the body and two that run along the midline.
The meridians are thin energy lines that run throughout the body. When a particular meridian is blocked, it causes an imbalance to occur somewhere along the energy line of the meridian. Of the 12 major meridians in the body, each connected to one organ system, six of which run through the hands and the other six run through the feet. By stimulating these meridians using Reflexology, the blockage is often removed and the energy can then flow freely to the corresponding body systems.

What are CEUs, and Why are They Important?

Being a massage professional, you know that it’s vital to continue your education from year to year. This is, after all, how you grow on a professional and personal level. Continuing education takes a couple of forms. First of all, every client you see in your practice has something to teach you: clinical experience can be an amazing teacher. In addition to this, though, it’s absolutely essential to continue your education in a more traditional format, using didactic coursework. If you’ve been looking for a way to keep learning in this kind of way, we have the answer. Online massage CEUs, or Continuing Education Units, are the perfect learning approach for the busy massage professional.

And remember: while CEUs are important for your professional growth, they’re also legally mandated in most states. Indeed, all across the country, the vast majority of states require that massage therapists obtain a certain annual minimum number of CEU hours (sometimes this minimum is calculated biennially or triennially) in order to maintain they licensure in that state.

If you’re looking for an NCBTMB Approved CEU provider, you’ve found one! Panda Massage CEU™ is proud to be a premiere NCBTMB Approved Provider of CEUs. What does this mean for you? Not only will our CEU courses meet NCBTMB requirements for certification: they’ll also count towards your annual licensure requirements at the state level.

Why Choose Panda Massage CEU?

We realize that there are other providers of online CEUs out there, but we firmly believe that we offer the best CEU courses available anywhere. What makes Panda Massage CEU the clear choice?

Quality

Simply put, our courses are hands down the highest quality available online. As the premiere online massage CEU class resource, we’re 100% certain that you’ll be satisfied with our offerings.

Unique Topics

If you’ve browsed through the classes offered by other online providers, you’ve probably noticed one thing they have in common: boring topics! We’re excited to offer a wide range of highly engaging and unique course options, include deep tissue massage, hydrotherapy, kinesiology, and more.

Professional Narration

Have you ever taken an online class without adequate narration? It’s practically impossible to follow along with. At Panda Massage CEU, we ensure that all of our online courses are professionally narrated. That makes them easy to keep up with, which means you’ll retain more of the material presented.

Video Included

Believe it or not, a lot of other online massage courses don’t include video. We believe a video component is essential to communicating information in a massage program. That’s why we include video with every single one of our classes. Not only does this help communicate the material more accurately; it also gives the course a “real” classroom feel.

Self-Paced

If there’s one thing most massage therapists and professionals have in common, it’s their busy schedules. We understand this, and that’s why we’ve made all of our courses self-paced. This means that no matter how hectic your schedule is, you can fit our courses into your day-to-day routine.

Great Prices

We’ve already mentioned that our programs are high quality. But quality alone isn’t enough: when you’re looking for an online course, you want the right combination of both quality and value. We know that costs are an important factor in choosing a class, and that’s why we offer all of our online classes at great prices. And don’t forget: by taking a course online, you’ll save hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars that you would’ve otherwise spent on traveling to an in-person class in another state.

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