The origins of Reflexology evidently reach back to ancient Egypt as evidenced by inscriptions found in the physician’s tomb at Saqqara in Egypt. But there are also indices of its practice in China, Malysia, India, Central and Nord América.
The Zone Theory was the precursor to modern Reflexology which began with Dr. William H. Fitzgerald (1872-1942), an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist working at the Boston City Hospital.
Eunice D. Ingham, a Physical Therapist, was fascinated by the concept of Zone Therapy and started developing her foot reflex theory in the early 1930′s. She had the opportunity to treat hundreds of patients where each reflex point of contact had been carefully and thoughtfully checked and rechecked until with all confidence she was able to determine that the reflexes on the feet were an exact mirror image of the organs of the body.
Today, reflexology is know in many countries all over the world.