Your Feet Will Appreciate It

Feet ache for many reasons: standing too long, walking too much, poorly fitted shoes or minor injuries. A good foot massage can help feet feel better, but professional massages can be expensive or inconvenient.

With just a little massage oil, you can relax your feet, stretch and soothe the muscles, and reduce swelling that causes pain. Trigger-point massage involves looking for tender spots in your feet and pressing on them while stretching and flexing your feet. These tender spots feel like little sore nodules or bands. Oil massage helps to move blood and lymph, stretch muscles, and make the feet more flexible.

Trigger-Point Massage

Step 1
Use your thumbs to march across the bottom of your feet inch by inch to find tender spots.

Step 2
Hold each tender point with medium pressure -- until the pressure "hurts good" -- while you wiggle your foot until the point stops hurting. Then search for the next tender point until you have found them all on the bottom of your foot.

Step 3
Repeat the thumb pressure on the top of your foot, marching across the top of the foot, around the ankles and between the toes, looking for trigger points. Hold each trigger point with medium pressure, as you did on the bottom of your foot, and stretch and flex the muscles while you hold each point.

Step 4
Repeat the trigger-point work on the other foot. At the end of the trigger-point work, your feet should feel warmer, more flexible and less painful.

Source: livestrong

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