“The tinnitus is lower…that´s so good. And strange also”

The client had tinnitus in both ears. She used to feel a continuous tinnitus since 2014. In 2018, she had an hearing loss on the left side. She made exams, resonances and consulted some medical experts. Nothing was detected and nothing they could do. A medical expert advised her for consulting a complementary therapy.

One day, she arrived to me. The person and the pathology were analyzed for defining the most appropriate treatment.
The treatment was a set of techniques and reflex areas to stimulate, based on: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Classic Reflexology, a specific Nerve Reflexology technique from MNT-NRâ*, Orthopedic Reflexology, feet and neck mobilization.
In TCM tinnitus is caused by an imbalance in liver and/or in kidneys. Kidneys are always responsible for the ear function. Liver is the son of kidneys (in the cycle of creation in TCM). So, when Yang energy of the liver is high (normally caused by irritation, range) it ascends and it also consumes the kidneys energy. After doing the questionnaire, the conclusion was that both, liver and kidneys, were imbalanced. We´ve worked both on feet.

We´ve worked also the following reflex areas:  head, neck, ear, eye, sinus in order to relax muscles and open all the channels improving the circulation and the cellular oxygenation to the head and face, stimulating the sensorial receptors and the auditory nerves; solar plexus, diaphragm and adrenals for relaxing; and the spine to balance all the nervous system, to relax the muscles and to improve the circulation through all the body.

The client also had some neck pain. So, we´ve did some neck exercises during the sessions and I´ve asked her to do it often at home.
The first session was on 15th November 2019. We had six sessions, interrupted in March 2020 (COVID time).
After the second session I´ve received the following message: “The tinnitus is lower…that´s so good. And strange also”
After the third session, the tinnitus was concentrated in the right side (and higher) and the client did not feel on the left side. In the day after, tinnitus was lower on the right side and disappeared on the left side.
After the other sessions the tinnitus on the right side was decreasing (with some oscillations) and on the left side still not bothering anymore.

Nowadays, she feels only on the right side but almost none. I believe that if we had some more sessions the tinnitus could have completely disappear.

Beyond REFLEXOLOGY it is important to have a healthy life and doing neck exercises.

FOOT REFLEXOLOGY is a good option for treating tinnitus. But it is fundamental to know the pathology and the client´s history to define an adequate treatment and the specific areas to stimulate for tinnitus elimination and/or reduction, contributing for the well-being and quality of life.

Client´s testimony
“Tinnitus was very annoying in my like. It was a constant noise inside me that did not allowed me to hearing the silence.”
For the conventional medicine there was no solution, until I was advised to look for complementary therapies. I found the solution in REFLEXOLOGY! With my feet in Raquel´s hands, tinnitus was decreasing every session and today the noise inside me is minimal that I almost forget about it. Now I hear the silence which is so good!” (13 April 2020)
* International Association for Manual Neurotherapy and Nerve Reflexologie

Raquel Dora Pinho, September 2022