Study design
This is a feasibility study designed as a randomized, controlled, two-arm therapeutic trial and its reporting is based on the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) 2010: extension to randomized pilot and feasibility trials. Eligible patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to foot reflexology group or active control massage therapy, using a password-protected web-based randomization system and randomization code based on computer-generated through randomly permuted blocks. One arm tested FR as a non-invasive physical intervention. FR is a systematic intervention in which applying some pressure to any particular points on the feet and hands give impacts on the health of related parts of the body (stimulation of reflex zones corresponding to specific areas of the body [