During the first inspection of this technique seems to deny the fundamental principles of reflexology, as the main collection of plantar reflexes no longer accessible to the therapist when the client is standing. However, research indicates not only that all reflexes can be accessed via the back but that the body is more sensitive to a healing and energy during treatment stimulation briefly standing. It was suggested that the VRT can reach deeper, perhaps new, reflexes, allowing homeostasis or balance to be achieved in a shorter time.

Over the past six years, I developed this simple but profound form of reflexology, which is used, and complete the treatments but also scored for many practitioners in less than five minutes. Most techniques VRT can also be used successfully in reclining, reflexology treatments, where the results are more gentle and subtle.

I discovered the advantages of vertical reflexology when working with chronically ill residents in my weekly clinic St Monica Trust nursing home, Bristol, which houses 200 elderly. In a small medically approved by the VRT trial, over 60% of chronically ill residents improved in the seven weeks and their progress was maintained.


Three VRT reflexes worked simultaneously.

Since 1998, over 1800 qualified reflexologists VRT have attended courses in the UK and Europe, and feedback shows that there is great demand for reduced VRT / reflexology conventional treatments, both in the workplace, as well as hospices , Sports teams and other places. Effective self-help for the registration tax in the hands and feet is one of the key elements, both preventive and curative, for reflexologists, patients and their relatives and friends.

The first VRT treatments were directed towards orthopedic problems alone, and these conditions usually have the fastest response to VRT. But within months of using this technique, I realized that all the conditions could benefit and subsequently developed other techniques that include synergistic reflexology (RA), where the hands and feet at the same time worked to increase the stimulation of reflexes. Other developments include three reflexes working at the same time in different combinations in the feet and hands. These techniques, incorporating the new zone trigger reflexes at the ankles, are particularly relevant to long-standing and intransigent problems. Later precise developments include nail work where the toe nails and worked in conjunction with the new set of reflexes back.


Self-help VRT

The absolute rule with VRT is not the revision of the reflexes, and a maximum of five minutes it was a lot to achieve good results. Sometimes immediate improvement is observed with only three minutes VRT at the beginning and / or end of a conventional treatment reflexology. The experienced reflexologist, in the use of VRT, is immediately by another "feel" to the well-known reflex points and will soon learn to interpret and clear areas of congestion, often with greater clarity and speed than before. The client will also notice that your feet feel much more tender, if in a weight-bearing position, and the therapist should be aware of this factor and reducing the burden accordingly. Weekly treatments produce good results and a maximum of two sessions per week, in chronic cases is recommended because the client body needs time to adjust. Acute cases also react to daily treatments, where possible, and the extremely self-help weight-react in the hands and feet can be used several times daily on demand.

Background of the discovery of the VRT.
All reflexologists are aware of the difficulties in the treatment of disabled people in wheelchairs or wear hard saddles. Often, it is impossible to work the reflexes to the Sole of the foot too long, because the client leg is at a painful angle. From sheer necessity, I started to work the top of the feet, as they rested in a wheelchair, and gradually became known that wheelchair-bound customers responded well to this form of reflexology, particularly orthopaedic cases. I have often used to ask them, press down with your feet as I could then deeper into the reflexes. I started mapping out new or deeper reflexes in the feet, but the concept of VRT was only formalised by the following incident:

A 74 - year old woman was injured in an accident and had very limited mobility, as it was too low to be a hip-replacement surgery because of chronic angina. She told me her right leg and hip were in great pain, so I knelt and worked the hips, legs, back and pelvic reflexes no longer than 90 seconds, while they remained. Ten minutes later, after I had left, she had an acute pain in her right hip, followed by the soreness and tingling lasted about 30 minutes. Your hip was much less painful and the next day, she could move her foot and leg higher than they had done for months. The next day I went to find her in her room operation framework and more recklessly lifting and swings her leg to show their new-found mobility! I realized immediately that the missing link to my research was that the feet had to be fully weight-for the reflexes to be so receptive. Within ten weeks, she had full mobility again. Six years later she is still mobile and flexible despite their consultant forecast that it would be wheelchair-bound in 18 months.

Following the woman's recovery, which was observed by the medical staff in the nursing home, I have reflexology on all my customers' Standing feet with great success. I immediately began teaching VRT these basic techniques to colleagues and they achieved similar outstanding results. In 1997, I have a small medical-approved and supervised probation to eight chronically ill geriatric residents in nursing homes. Although several pathologies were present, was the criterion for measuring the decrease in pain and increase mobility regardless of medical history. Reflexologists not specific disease diagnosis, but can treat specific conditions in a holistic manner, enabling the body to achieve self-healing in a shorter time. Over a seven-week period, a fifteen-minute VRT / reflexology conventional treatment per week, more than 60% of the participants were more mobility and reduce pain. Two months later, their status has been improved constantly. In two cases, the study results were extraordinary.

Trial Results.
A 61-year-old woman was tabled because it had knee problems, but also a deep excruciating pain in the left bar that would cause them to cry when it moves. At the end of the process was virtually pain after many months of unease in their bar, although their knee is not responding. Another person began walking around the room for the first time in a year and experienced a setting in an overall strategy soreness of the skin and depression ". The most reported improved sleep and less pain and reported "no mood explosions for seven weeks, which, as it occurred on a weekly basis, was apparently something of a record! By the time the study was concluded there were no I doubt among the medical staff and my colleagues that VRT was not only a powerful new form of reflexology for orthopedic problems, but that it is a holistic technique, which helped stimulate the whole body mechanism.

Hypothesis - How vertical reflex therapy.
It quickly became clear to me that by addressing the tops of the feet, the zones and therefore the access reflexes were in a three-dimensional mode. Customers with a variety of non-orthopaedic were suffering reacted positively, although in the short five-minute treatments, the conventional reflexes such as the stomach, liver or colon were not directly worked. Instead of the same reflexes were accessed plantar vertically from the Dorsum.

Neutrality.
I suggest that VRT brings the body in a neutral state in which the long-term legacy of the stem, voltage, or scar tissue degeneration in its systems is being circumvented, have direct access to the original problem. For example, this would explain some of the VRT recorded case studies, where the body has an almost immediate response, as with a stiff arm or leg becomes mobile after a long period of inactivity. It is rewarding when a shoulder free, VRT in a workshop, as the reflexologists are made aware of the power of therapy and the speed at which the body can respond. A word of caution is appropriate, as therapists and clients are often eager to demonstrate their new-found mobility and keep stretching or move her arm, leg or neck show that the increased range of motion. Non-first exercise, as the muscles, ligaments, spine and blood supply, etc., in the field need time and reflection, so that they continue to gently healing response.

The permanent body is capable of vitality.
My theory is that the body upright seems to be in a position of increased vitality when it with weight, as the muscles are tight - so that the reflexes to be much stronger. There is a positive pressure on the bones of the skeleton, and the heart pumps oxygen-rich blood to the organs, in a standing position, is less burdened by bad posture. In an esoteric sense, it has been suggested that the feet are grounded on the ground in a way that seems to be a more vigorous response.

The zones - A three-dimensional model.
VRT appears to activate the ten zones in an unprecedented way. I believe that the zones will be able to VRT overloaded and can recharge and clear these invisible energy lines so the healing process accelerated processes. The reflexology model that there are invisible lines between the energetic reflexes in the feet and hands and each part of the body, and that the stimulation of a specific reflex sends an energetic impulse to a particular organ or gland. With VRT it appears to be an unprecedented wave of energy and, instead of stimulating the individual reflexes, the entire zone is more receptive.

The newly discovered zones triggers (ZTS) are ankle deep reflections that play a key role in activating the zones extremely fast, so that the body is more receptive to healing. It seems to be a faster and more direct line of communication between the reflexes and parts of the body, if the feet are equipped with weight. Not only that the more stimulation is on the way to an affected part, but congestion in another part of the body can easily be avoided. Many people report a rush of heat or power, as they experience VRT, followed by slight tingling sensation as the body makes many adjustments to achieve homeostasis or balance in a shorter time.

1. Zonal Triggers 2. Fallopian tubes/ seminal vesicles/ vas deferens/ groin/ lympahtic / helper diaphragm/ heart 4. Colon 5. Small intestine 8. Appendix/ ileocecal valve 9. Knee 10. Elbow 11. Kidney 12 Helper lateral digestive reflexes 13. Liver 14. Gall bladder 17. Stomach 18. Adrenals 19. Duodenum 20 Diaphragm 21. Solar plexus 24. Shoulder 25. Chest/ lung/ breast

26. Trachea/ oesophagus/ bronchial tubes 28. Thyroid/ parathyroid 30. Lymphatics 31. Eyes 32 Ears/ eustachian tube 33. Pituitary/ pineal/ hypothalamus 35. Brain/ skull 37. Helper sinuses/ teeth 38. Sinuses/ brain/ skull 40. Helper ovary/ testes 42. Helper lower back/ sciatic/ rectum/ colon/ uterus 44. Hip/ sacro-ileac joint 45. Leg 47. Hip/ Pelvic area 48. Helper lateral spine 50. Larynx/ vocal cords

• The cross section of the foot shown in Figure 1 illustrates the different layers of reflexes that can be easily accessible when your feet are taking weight. Pressing reflections on the back you can access four levels of reflexes at the same time:
  
  * The traditional dorsal and reflexes reflexes new VRT and active zone;
  * The layer of reflexes associated with the emotional system;
  * The body of the catalogue of past injuries and degeneration, and
  * The traditional planting reflexes.