A self-confessed sceptic, Sue discovered the power of reflexology on a holiday in Ireland back in 1986. Her husband Glynn had a treatment and she was amazed that the SRN doing the treatent spotted his sinus probes and stiff neck.
"I wanted to find out more. As a beauty therapist, people are always telling me about their health niggles; I realised reflexology might be a way of helping them more."
Sue incorporated reflexology into her work. Soon she as getting amazing results.
"My clients started saying they had noticed a difference in my hands and I started to realise I was becoming sensitive to people's pains. If I hover my hands over someone's limbs, I get a tingling sensation in my fingers that tells me when something is it of balance."
Then, one day, a client, K.C, came to me with a more unusual quest than help for a back problem or a migraine. "She had a thyroid problem and was on medication that made it unsafe for her to get pregnant," remembers Sue.
"She desperately wanted a child but the only option was to come off medication and have an operation on her thyroid. She came to me to fmd an alternative way to treat the problem. After about a year blood tests showed the problem had disappeared."
"Her hormones were sufficiently balanced for doctors to be able to cancel her operation. One day, when I was working on her uterus reflex on her inner heel it felt different. I asked her if she was pregnant - she was!"
Sue also correctly diagnosed another client's pregnancy, even though her period was only three days late. "Every part of the foot is mapped out anatomically. The area around her ankle that relates to the uterus seemed different," Sue explains. |
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"I realised how wonderful it would be to help women with fertility problems," she says.
"Since then, I've helped 15 women get pregnant. I helped them fulfil their dreams and it is such a thrill," says Sue.
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She discovered she can pinpoint fertility problems by detecting stiffness around the ankle. "If the area that to the uterus seems life and pale, it generally signifies a problem." Sue finds out more by working her thumb over the entire foot.
She reckons she has a 70 per cent success rate in helping women overcome their fertility problems but nothing is guaranteed.
C.R. from Sheffield with her twins
Abbie and Thomas
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L.M., from Sheffield, expecting.
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"And I do believe that it is some women's path in to have children," she adds. "I don't think have great power," she adds to demystify the whole thing.
"Cynics say it must in the mind, and I tell they are right - because what happens in the mind can often cause physical problems in the body.."
HOW TO HELP INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF CONCEPTION
ONE in seven couples now seek help with fertility problems. There are quite a few things that you can do to help yourself, says Sue Calvert:
Self-help for the mum-to-be:
• Try to eat as much wholesome food as possible; keep take-aways and junk food to an occasional treat.
• Try to keep to a healthy body weight.
• Stop smoking and limit your alcohol intake to under six glasses of wine a week. Both smoking and excessive alcohol can affect egg quality.
• Make sure any existing medical conditions such as asthma or diabetes are managed and under control.
• Take regular exercise.
• Avoid stress.
• Avoid taking Ibuprofen or any other prostaglandin-inhibiting drug when ovulating.
• Individual herbal remedies can be prescribed to help.
• Aromatherapy oils can be blended to help you to relax and improve your chances
Self-help for the dad-to-be:
Don't drink more than eight units of alcohol in any 48-hour period as it is toxic to sperm.
• Stop smoking - this is also another toxin to sperm.
• Don't put your laptop on your lap as this raises the temperature of the scrotal sac - so do steam baths, saunas, hot baths, tight underwear.
• Certain aromatherapy oils will also help to relax you and get you in the mood!!
• Herbal supplements will also help enhance sperm numbers and quality.
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The Star, Sheffield, Wednesday 30th July, 2003. Jo Davison
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