Technique application is assessed on the basis of zones and reflex areas. Foot Work in Ancient History Cultures throughout history have created therapeutic practices of foot work.
Foot work is depicted in relics from ancient Egypt, China, India, and Japan.
Buddha's footprints are found the Medicine Teacher Temple in Nara, Japan dating from 790 A. D. Kunz and Kunz have hypothesized that foot work is an archestructure, a physical demand within the nervous system that creates the impetus for whole cultures to practice the activity. The modern history of dates from the exploration of the nervous system in the last century. The influence of one part of the body one another became an object of study. A colleague of Pavlov, V. M. Bechterev coined the term reflexology in 1917.The Russian perception of reflex therapy evolves from a notion that the afflicted organ is receiving the wrong instructions from the brain. The goal of Russian reflex therapy is to interrupt the instructions.