Complementary therapies are capturing the interest of nurses. But will there be enough work for all those taking courses in reiki, t’ai chi and reflexology

TEN YEARS ago hardly any nurses were doing reiki, t’ai chi or reflexology. Most of us had no idea what they were, or even how to spell them. But things have changed. At a major London conference on complementary therapies last week it was clear that nurses’ interest in these sorts of treatments is expanding very quickly. When the audience was asked who was using reiki about 15 hands went up. Most had taken it up in the past five years, it emerged.