The following are acts specifically pertaining to the profession of a therapeutic reflexologist—
| (a) | The physical examination and preparation of any person's hands, ears, face, feet, and legs for the purpose of treating or providing treatment in accordance with reflexology treatment principles and protocols for pre-diagnosed physical disease, illness, or deficiencies in any person or to prevent such physical disease, illness or deficiencies in such person. |
| (b) | The treatment or prevention of any physical disease, illness or deficiency in any person using reflexology, including, but not limited to, by— |
| (i) | assessing the integumentary and myofascial structure and evaluating the individual's needs or potential needs and taking into account the current physical, biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors and their influence on the individual; |
| (ii) | performing assessment of the reflex areas in the feet, body, legs, hands, arms, face, and ears in determining and preparing a treatment protocol; |
| (iii) | recording of patient's personal details, the health history pertaining to the condition of the patient, vital signs, treatment, and recommendation details as well as progress; |
| (iv) | the manual relaxation techniques such as Achilles tendon stretch and pinching, ankle, and toes rotation, wringing or twisting of the feet, kneading specific reflex areas; |
| (v) | using sequence procedures such as thumb rotation, finger, or thumb walking on the reflex areas in the feet; |
| (vi) | the application of specific hand, finger and thumb techniques in order to stimulate the reflex areas on the feet, legs, hands, arms, face, ears and body, the manual mobilisation of soft tissue structures on the feet or using other reflexology devices or equipment based on education and training, as approved by the Council, from time to time, at the recommendation of the applicable professional board and published by Notice in the Government Gazette, for a therapeutic outcome and prevention of conditions of illness in patients; and |
| (vii) | advising the patients on health and self-care that includes hand and foot care, nutrition, and lifestyle; |
| (c) | Other acts specifically pertaining to the profession of therapeutic reflexology based on the education and training of therapeutic reflexologists as approved by the Council, from time to time, on recommendation of the applicable professional board and published by Notice in the Government Gazette by the Council. |
