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Exercises To Keep Your Feet Healthy
When we were born, we were free of foot problems. Then we put on shoes and put a world of stresses on our feet. Various stresses and pressures cause our feet to have blisters, corns, bunions, sweaty feet and athletes foot. In an ideal world, we would walk barefoot on soft ground, with plenty of time to rest and clean our feet when necessary. Unfortunately we live in an ideal we have to sometimes put fashion over comfort. Our shiny pointy toed shoes may look nice but may not provide our feet with the room needed for normal growth. Our hard roads and sidewalks may be great for cars and bikes to ride on, but can do a number on the soft tissues of our feet and knees.For those of us that have to walk long distances in dress and casual shoes, there are exercises for our sore muscles. These exercises are designed to relieve pain in our arches, ease heel pain, ease the pain of hammer toes, bunions, and toe cramps.
The question is, why do we need to exercise our feet when we have already been walking all day? The answer is that any type of shoe will cause us to walk differently than we would in our ideal shoe, which would be no shoe at all. Any type of shoe is going to put stresses on certain muscles when we walk. Certain muscles will be neglected, and certain ones will be overused. And opposed to barefoot, any shoes we wear will be rubbing up against our feet when we walk or run, causing pressure on the feet by rubbing up against them.
To maintain a lifetime of foot health, a daily cleaning and a few specialized exercises will go a long way. Please note that these cleaning treatments and daily exercises will have little value towards foot health if you are spending 15 hours a day in shoes that work to damage your feet.
Below is a brief overview of some healthy foot exercises.
- A footsie roller massage. A footsie roller massage is a roller that you put the arch of your feet over, to gently roll back and forth.
- A golf ball roll. A golf ball roll, like the footsie roller, is designed to relieve pain on the arch of your feet.
- The point and flex exercise involves flexing your foot up and down, holding each position for ten seconds.
- The heel raise is designed to increase the length of the Achilles tendon to relieve pain.
- The runners stretch is good for anyone suffering from heel pain.
