He also made the first detailed drawings of reflexes on the feet and hands that suggested a shape of the human body with the tips of the fingers and toes corresponding to the head and the heel of the feet and hands corresponding to the lower parts of the body. In his book, Dr. Riley also included an illustration of the outer ear with just a few pressure points. The full reflex map of the body on the outer ear had not yet been discovered. Below is the culmination of the research Drs. Fitzgerald and Riley provided on the reflex zone locations During Dr. Riley’s research, physical therapist Eunice D. Ingham worked closely with Dr. Riley and was fascinated with his research and started developing her foot reflex theory in the early 1930's. She proceeded to treat hundreds of patients where she carefully checked and rechecked each reflex point until she determined that the reflexes on the feet were an exact mirror image of the organs of the body.

After reporting her findings to Dr. Riley, he encouraged her to write her first book entitled "Stories The Feet Can Tell" where she documented her cases and carefully mapped out the reflexes on the feet as we know them today. This book was published in 1938 and was later translated into seven foreign languages, which spread the benefits of Reflexology beyond the borders of the United States. Confusion between Reflexology and Zone Therapy began to arise at this point because a foreign publisher changed the name of Eunice’s book to "Zone Therapy". However, there is a distinct difference between the two therapies. Zone Therapy relies solely on the zones to determine the area to be worked, whereas Reflexology takes the zones as well as the anatomical model to determine the area or areas to be worked.

After the publication of her book Eunice Ingham found herself traveling around the country giving health workshops and giving book reviews. Only sick and dilapidated people attended these book reviews and workshops where she would teach people by working on them and discussing their particular health issues.
As these sick people, whom everyone else had given up on, got better the word spread and Reflexology became better known amongst the medical fraternity as well as lay people. In the late 1950's Dwight Byers started helping Eunice Ingham at her workshops. In 1961 Dwight Byers and his sister Eusebia Messenger, a registered nurse, joined their Aunt Eunice teaching at workshops on a full time basis. Seven years later they became responsible for the continued teaching of Reflexology under the banner of The National Institute of Reflexology. Also in 1961, the profession of physiotherapists objected to the word "Therapy" in the name "Zone Therapy". Hence, the name 'reflexology' was adopted. Other names adopted by other people for the practices of foot reflexology are:

• Pressure Point Massage
• Compression Massage
• Pointed Pressure Massage
• Vita-Flex

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