The appearance of the syndrome of tired legs depends on the huge burden on the legs, a person does about 19,000 steps a day, over a year 2000 kilometers, and for the whole life passes 150,000 kilometers. Already with age, a person's feet "buzz", hurt, accompanied by a strong swelling. All this is regularly experienced by half of the adult population: overcrowded and overstretched veins do not have time to pass blood at the right pace, which in turn accumulates excess fluid in the tissues, leads to edema and causes pain. In addition, the syndrome of tired legs, is a sign of hormonal failure or varicose veins. How to relieve fatigue and swelling from the feet, we learn from this publication.
Correctly taking care of your feet, you can maintain health and strength of your legs. Foot care includes: baths, gymnastics, selection of comfortable shoes, use of medicinal and cosmetic means. When fatigue does not feel your legs, sit down for a while, put your feet on the support so that it is above the level of the head. And if you go to bed, put a cushion or a hard cushion under your feet, so that they are slightly raised.
Contrasting bath gives tired muscles tonus
For such a bath, take 2 pelvis, in one pelvis we pour cold water, in another hot water about 40 degrees. We sit down on a chair and for a few minutes we lower our feet first into hot water, then into cold water, we do about 15 or 20 times. The procedure will be terminated with cold water, rub the feet with a cold towel and smear them with a nutritious cream.
Massage, which helps to restore the legs vivacity
We put on the legs a nourishing cream or emollient oil and begin to massage the feet in circular motions, moving from the fingers to the ankle. If the legs are tired we will apply ointment before the massage, which contains the extract of menthol, eucalyptus or camphor ointment. Massages of feet with your thumbs. We sit on a chair, one leg bend in the knee and put it on the knee of the other leg. Right hand bend into a fist, knuckles a little pressing on the foot, massaging this way. Bend and straighten the fingers on both feet. Then we massage the legs with our hands in a circular motion, moving from the ankle to the knee. If your legs are dilated veins, then the legs can not be massaged.
Enhancement of the tone and improvement of the body's well-being
- Massaging the thumb in circular motions, then it will help to remove the headache, if the pain is strong, then massage the fingers of both legs.
- Relieve fatigue and inflammation of the eyes will help massage the area on the foot, it is located under the middle finger.
- If you massage the area under the little finger, then this will save you from the fact that it pawns ears, from pain in the ears.
- You can massage your feet with a towel. Grasp the ends of the towel, press it to your feet and rub your knees and thighs with light movements. Massage can be stopped when the skin of the legs turns pink.
- Massage will be effective if it is made with a stiff bristle. Rub your feet in a circular motion and move up to the buttocks, then apply a nourishing cream or balm.
- Roller massager well relieves fatigue. Put both feet on the massager wheels and rotate the feet for a few minutes back and forth. After this massage, you will feel light.
- In the sale appeared such a device, which in the bath creates an artificial whirlpool, it effortlessly relieves fatigue.
- You need to walk barefoot at home, in the forest, on the beach, at the dacha, since walking acts no worse than a massage. And to keep your feet tired, you need to find comfortable shoes.
- To prevent fatigue, stimulate blood circulation and prevent the expansion of veins in this elastic pantyhose will help, they will like a massager to help improve blood circulation and affect the muscles of the legs.
- Tired and swollen feet can be wiped with ice slices. We will prepare it from decoctions of lime-colored, sage, chamomile or nettle.
Baths for fatigue removal
Relieve fatigue and relax the feet of the salt bath. Pour in a basin of warm water, put a few spoonfuls of sea salt or salt, mix it to dissolve the salt. We lower the legs for 10 or 15 minutes into the water. The bath helps to relax the legs and improve the skin condition.
Bath from chamomile, lime blossom and honey
If the legs are tired and swollen. Take 2 tablespoons chamomile fill them with 1 liter of boiling water, we insist 5 minutes. Let's drink a decoction of chamomile and lime blossom, add 1 liter of boiling water, put 1 tablespoon of honey, mix well and put the legs in the bath for 15 or 20 minutes.
Bath from mint and nettle broth
Take 1 tablespoon of nettle and 1 tablespoon of dry mint, fill with 1 liter of boiling water, we insist 5 or 7 minutes, let the broth pour into the pelvis and let down for 20 minutes. It invigorates the blood circulation.
The entire body will cheer up the baths of lemon and orange peel. We shall crush a glass of a peel, we shall fill in 1,5 liters of boiled water, we weld a few minutes. When it cools down, pour into the pelvis and place for 20 or 25 minutes feet.
Conifer-salt bath
If your legs are very tired, and you are waiting for business, this bath will help to remove fatigue.
Pour water into the basin, add sea or table salt to it at the rate of 2 tablespoons of salt per 1 liter of water, add a few drops of pine extract and place in the foot bath for 15 minutes. We take a bath for the whole body, if there is time, and then you can work with new forces.
Bath from the field of horsetail
Crush ½ glass of grass and fill with 1 liter of boiling water and cook the cooled decoction, strain and add 1 liter of water, let down for 15 or 20 minutes of the foot. Shred ½ cup of grass and fill with a liter of boiling water, cook for 10 minutes. Cool the broth and strain it and add 1 liter of water, let's drop the legs in the bath for 15 or 20 minutes.
When tired legs in the ankles, edema appears, it is typical on hot days. Remove the swelling with garlic. Chop the garlic in a mixer, then fill the garlic with a glass of boiling water. This gruel will be rubbed on the swollen leg sites and hold for half an hour, then with cool water and then put it in a basin of cold water, for 10 or 15 minutes and lightly tweezed massage the swollen legs.
Baths that relieve swelling of the feet
Bath from chamomile and lemon balm
Take 1 tablespoon chamomile and 2 tablespoons melissa, fill with 1 liter of boiling water, we insist 5 minutes. Soluble in 1 liter of warm water 1 tablespoon of salt and add a strained broth of herbs. Hold the feet for 25 or 30 minutes. Then rinse your feet in cool water and well rub them with a towel.
If the work is all the time on your feet, then we will put on cotton socks in the evening, soaked in salted water or in acidified water with vinegar. This compress can be left overnight.
To treat swelling in the legs we take cotton cloth, soak it in cold water, wrap it with our feet, put on a plastic bag and woolen socks. A little massage of the legs in circular motions, moving from the bottom up.
If the swelling of the legs is repeated regularly. It makes sense to see a doctor, this can be a symptom of metabolic and circulatory disorders. With temporary edemas will cope with folk remedies
With foot swelling, take 2 tablespoons of flaxseed, brew ½ liter of boiling water, put on a slow fire and cook for 10 minutes, let the infusion infusion. Filtered infusion drink every day ½ cup for a month.
Take 4 teaspoons of flaxseed, pour them 1 liter of water. We boil for 15 minutes. We will close the pan and put it in a warm place. Let us brew for 1 hour. We can not percolate. We will add fruit or lemon juice for taste. We drink ½ cup every 2 hours for 6 or 8 times a day.
Exercises for removal of foot fatigue
1 . We will rise on socks and we fall on heels 50 or 60 times.
2 . Standing, we roll for 5 minutes with your feet a ball or a rolling pin.
3. Let's collect the pencils scattered on the floor with your toes.
4 . Let's sit more conveniently, we will extend legs, we rotate stops on 10 times in one party, and in other party.
5 . We are like heels and tiptoes on the inner and the outer side of the foot.
6. Insert a pencil between your toes and try to write something.
7. To strengthen the tendon of the toes, stand with your fingers on a thick book so that your fingers hang down to the floor. We'll try to grab the fingers of the book by the edge of the book.
8. Lower and raise your toes 10 times.
9. Walk barefoot, this is one of the effective exercises.
Now we know how to relieve fatigue and swelling from the feet. Using these simple baths, compresses and exercises, you can remove swelling and fatigue from your feet.