Background:Hemodialysis is the most important treatment for chronic kidney disease. The occurrence of negative symptoms dialysis therapy such as pain, sleep disorder, depression, fluctuations in blood pressure reduce Quality life and cause illness to be perceived burdensome. Foot reflexology serves relax, improve circulation promote a general feeling wellness among hemodialysis patients. Aim:To...

Background: Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) is a common disorder in the elderly, especially older women, which causes sleep disorders and endangers the elderly with increase in the risk of falling, memory disturbances, and eventually, poor quality of life. Today, non-pharmacological approaches, including reflexology massage, are considered along with pharmaceutical methods for improving sleep quali...

Many pregnant women with low back and/or pelvic pain (LBPP) use pain medications to manage this pain, much of which is self-prescribed and potentially harmful. Therefore, there is a need to find effective nonpharmacological treatments for the condition. Reflexology has previously been shown to help nonspecific low back pain. Therefore; a pilot RCT was conducted investigating reflexology in the ...

PURPOSE To conduct a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effects of reflexology on quality of life (QofL) in women with early breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and eighty-three women were randomised 6 weeks post-breast surgery to self-initiated support (SIS) (comparator intervention), SIS plus reflexology, or SIS plus scalp massage (control for physical a...

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the effect of reflexology massage soles on feet and hands intensity pain in patients after cholecystectomy appendectomy women. Methods: was a clinical trial pre-test-post-test design with three groups women who underwent an Mashhad, Iran. Pain assessed 1, 4, 12, 24 hours intervention. The intervention performed within first hour 12 surgery for 10 min each ha...