A total of 34 objective outcome measures were analysed. Results: Seventeen eligible RCT’s met all inclusion criteria. Risk of bias was assessed independently by two members of the review team and overall strength of the evidence was assessed using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation guidelines. Methods: Guidelines from the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions were followed: the following databases were searched from inception-December 2013: AMED, CAM Quest, CINAHL Plus, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Embase, Medline Ovid, Proquest and Pubmed. The aim of this review was to assess the current evidence available from reflexology randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that have investigated changes in physiological or biochemical outcomes. However, it is offered by few healthcare providers as little scientific evidence is available explaining how it works or any health benefits it may confer. Adequate training for practitioners is necessary to ensure the consistency of service provided.īackground: Reflexology is one of the top forms of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the UK and is used for healthcare by a diverse range of people. Due to its non-invasive, non-pharmacological complementary nature, reflexology is widely accepted and anecdotal evidence of positive effect reflexology in a variety of health conditions are available. Previous systematic reviews failed to show concrete evidence for any specific effect of reflexology in any conditions. The articles published for the last 10 years were included. PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, and SpringerLink databases were utilized to search the following medical subject headings or keywords: foot massage, reflexology, foot reflex-otherapy, reflexological treatment, and zone therapy. This review aimed to revisit the concept of reflexology and examine its effectiveness, practices, and the training for reflexology practitioners. They believe that by applying the appropriate pressure and massage certain spots on the feet and hands, all other body parts could be energized and rejuvenated. Reflexology practitioners rely on the reflexes map of the feet and hands to all the internal organs and other human body parts.
Reflexology is basically a study of how one part of the human body relates to another part of the body. Many of the extant research journals either cannot or will not expand the number
New subdisciplines within several of the sciences have created the need for new, specialized journals. At first glance this appears to be a good thing. Beginning in about 2011, scientists have witnessed a proliferation of new scientific journals that continues to the present day. Discussion focused on how non-predatory journals might improve their services to authors without sacrificing quality, and the pros and cons of authors' choices to submit manuscripts to predatory journals. Author differences in satisfaction were not significantly different on six of the criteria, but editors and reviewers for the non-predatory journals were rated significantly higher. We also asked authors who had been published in both predatory and non-predatory journals to rate the quality of their experiences with reviewers and editors of these journals on seven criteria. Raters found highly significant differences with medium-large to very large effect sizes favoring the non-predatory journals on all five criteria. We removed the author and journal identification from each article and had qualified psychologists conduct blind reviews for quality on five criteria.
We compared 25 articles relevant to psychology taken from these " predatory " journals with 25 psychology-related articles taken from " non-predatory " journals considered to be of good (but not great) quality. Many of them have been accused of engaging in deceptive or " predatory " practices, and it has been claimed that most of them publish articles of poor quality. Since 2011 there has been a huge increase in the number of new scientific journals.
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