Magana: Ayyukan da suka yi kama da reflexology na iya wanzu a cikin lokutan tarihi na baya. An rubuta irin waɗannan ayyuka a cikin tarihin China da Misira. An gabatar da Reflexology zuwa Amurka a 1913 ta William H. Fitzgerald, MD (1872<unk>1942), wani kunne, hanci, da kuma maƙogwaro na musamman, da Edwin F. Bowers. Fitzgerald ya yi iƙirarin cewa yin amfani da matsa lamba yana da tasirin anesthetic a wasu yankuna na jiki. An canza shi a cikin 1930s da 1940s ta Eunice D. Ingham (1889<unk>1974), mai jinya da kuma likitan ilimin lissafi. Ingham ya yi iƙirarin cewa ƙafafu da hannaye suna da matukar damuwa, kuma sun tsara dukkan jiki zuwa "reflexes" a ƙafafu, sake suna "reflexology therapy".
Shekara ta 1974