Vertical Reflexology?

Vertical Reflex Therapy is a remarkable reflexology discovery where the top of the foot or hand reflexes are briefly treated while weight bearing. The nerves in the feet and hands remain desensitized when passive or reclining and those same nerves become sensitized when the feet are standing or the hands are pressing down on a flat surface.
The general premise of reflexology is that the reflexes in the hands and feet can be triggered to send a message to a specific organ or gland in the body which will help to trigger a healing response. When a reflexology therapist stimulates the feet, an energetic response is carried through the body to a particular target. It appears that, in the reflexology concept, the response is transmitted in some way by the nerves and, if this is the case, then there is a possibility that the sensitized weight-bearing reflexes may enhance the response of the stimulated reflex.

How was it developed & further research:
Lynne Booth the founder of Vertical Reflex Therapy was aware of the logistical difficulties of treating disabled people, especially those in wheelchairs. Since the early 1990's, she has held a weekly clinic for elderly people with multiple pathologies at the St Monica Trust, Bristol. Often it is impossible to work the reflexes on the sole of the foot for long because the client’s leg is at a painful angle. Out of sheer necessity she began to work the top of the feet as they rested on the wheelchair foot supports and gradually became aware that wheelchair-bound clients responded well to this form of reflexology, especially for musculo-skeletal conditions. Lynne then began mapping out new or deeper reflexes on the top of the feet but the concept of VRT was only formalised after the following incident:    
A 74- year-old woman was injured in an accident and had very limited mobility as she was too frail to undergo a hip replacement operation due to chronic angina. She told Lynne, her right leg and hip were in great pain, so Lynne knelt down and worked the hip, leg, spine and pelvic reflexes for no more than 90 seconds, while she remained standing. Ten minutes later, after Lynne had left, her client had an acute pain in her right hip followed by soreness and tingling which lasted approximately 30 minutes. Her hip was then much less painful and by the next day she could move her foot and leg higher than she had done for months. The next day Lynne visited her client only to find her holding on to her walking frame and rather recklessly lifting and swinging her leg to demonstrate her new-found mobility! Lynne realized at once that the missing link to her research was that the feet had to be fully weight-bearing for the reflexes to become so receptive. Within ten weeks her client had regained full mobility. Ten years later, though frail, she was still mobile and flexible despite her consultant’s prognosis that she would be probably be wheelchair-bound in 18 months. 
In 1997 a small medically approved VRT study on geriatric pain and mobility problems resulted in a 60% maintained improvement in 7 weeks. A survey of reflexology/VRT in the workplace in 2002 resulted in an 80+%  recorded improvement when daily self-help VRT on the hands was implemented. Other research includes two studies on Anxiety and on Pain.
I have attended the basic course in Vertical Reflexology and may use it to enhance your treatment if I feel you will benefit from me doing so.