Reflex therapy:
There is no scientific basis for diagnosis and treatment.
Reflexive therapy, also known as regional therapy and reflexotherapy, is based on the principle that each region of hands and feet represents each part of the body, such as heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney and other internal organs. Massage on various areas of hands and feet can make energy, blood, nutrition or nerve impulses flow to the corresponding body parts, thus producing therapeutic effects, including relieving mental stress and expelling toxins from the body. Reflex therapy practitioners are mostly teachers, claiming that it can treat dozens of diseases such as deafness, alopecia, anemia, hemorrhoids, emphysema, heart disease, bronchitis, convulsions in children and so on. It is also claimed that it successfully extended the short legs for people with "long and short legs".
Some reflexotherapists claim that by observing the color of hands and feet, we can diagnose the abnormality of corresponding body parts and draw a specific "reflection map" of hands and feet. There are also "iridology" and "sticking ear points", which correspond to the internal organs of the body with the iris and auricle of the eyeball respectively. The so-called "iris analysis" is to diagnose diseases in other parts of the body by looking at the markings and textures of the iris, while "sticking ear points" is to press the auricle with magnetic beads and pills to treat diseases in other parts of the body from a distance.
Dr Steven Barrett, co-founder of the National Anti-Health Fraud Committee, believes that the above-mentioned "reflex pathways" have no scientific basis, and the so-called "reflex pathways" are only people's assumptions and have not been confirmed by human anatomy-it can be safely said that they do not exist at all. Some teachers say that diseases are caused by mental stress, and reflexes can relieve stress, thus assisting treatment, but Barrett thinks this is "vague empty talk".
Dr William Jarvis, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Malinda, USA, found that the accuracy of reflexotherapy in diagnosing diseases in 43 parts of human body according to the condition of hands and feet was at the level of wild guess. Some studies have also shown that plantar reflexotherapy has no effect on abdominal pain after gynecological abdominal surgery, and 10 week reflexotherapy has no effect on improving lung function of patients with bronchial asthma, while other aspects of "curative effect" are only placebo effect, that is, the so-called "psychological effect" and have no practical effect.
Slimming slippers, * * * steering wheel cover
It is difficult to affect human function.
When obese people hear that they can lose weight by wearing a magic slipper without strenuous exercise and painful dieting. Can they not be moved? There are many bumps on the insole of this kind of slippers. Some products also have strong magnets at the contact of the arch, and some products have a particularly short shoe body design, and the heels are empty when put on. Others think they are wearing the wrong children's slippers. Merchants claim that wearing slimming slippers and walking for more than 15 minutes a day can help you lose a lot of fat. It is said that some people lost more than 6 kg after wearing 2 1 day.
Slimming slippers are designed according to the principle of reflexology. They are specially designed for plantar reflex areas such as the arch of the foot, corresponding to the parts of the human body related to weight control, including thyroid, stomach, large intestine and so on. It is said that nerves can change metabolism, digestive function and personal eating habits, and you can burn more calories unconsciously, thus achieving the effect of losing weight. The website of "pseudo-medical observation" in the United States pointed out that this kind of slippers has not been proved to have weight loss effect through controlled research, but it will cause discomfort and even pain to the arch of the foot. At present, it has not been found that magnets have any effect on human function.
Similar products include * * * steering wheel cover, with some protrusions on the surface and some embedded with magnets. Its advertisement claims that it can help relieve muscle tension and eliminate driving fatigue when driving, and also points out that different areas of the hand correspond to different positions such as ears, lungs and shoulders. Barrett said that the steering wheel cover is also based on the principle of reflection, but merchants can't explain how the protrusions on the steering wheel cover affect human parts in other places and how to remotely control them to "feel better".
Fat people wear slimming slippers.
Can cause plantar strain
Liu Gang, director of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, believes that it is impossible to lose weight just by wearing slimming slippers. The decisive factor for losing weight is that calorie intake is less than expenditure, and the key is to "keep your mouth shut and open your legs". The sole design of slimming slippers makes people's center of gravity unstable. Walking carefully and contracting core muscles is also an exercise. However, walking and climbing stairs will lead to unstable center of gravity and sudden fall.
Weight-loss slippers are repeated under the soles of feet with the help of body weight. Liu Gang warned that wearing it for too long may lead to joint sprain or plantar soft tissue strain, including toe fascia and tendon fatigue injury, which is not suitable for heavier people. In addition, slimming slippers are not suitable for patients with osteoporosis and long bone spurs, which will aggravate bone hyperplasia and make people more painful; Rugged insoles are difficult to clean, which makes patients with foot fungal infection repeatedly infected and difficult to recover.