How To Avoid Foot Pain - Tips For Healthy, Happy Feet

How To Avoid Foot Pain - Tips For Healthy, Happy Feet

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Foot Pain is often experienced following a result of a lack of care and attention. However with a little thought and tender loving care your feet can thrive and provide you with faithful service.

The skin on our feet is thicker than elsewhere; providing much needed protection against the stresses and strains we put them under. It is said that our feet absorb between three and four times our bodyweight whenever they touch the ground.

In an average lifetime, our feet walk the distance equivalent of four times round the earth so its not surprising that they sometimes feel hard done by. Add in the fact that they have around 72, 000 nerve endings and it is not surprising that they need some tender loving care.

Here is how to give it.

* Scrub Up Nicely

The most important thing you can do to promote healthy, beautiful feet is to scrub them. It is no good just giving them a quick wash at the end of a shower. Equally, it is no good using a flannel or a sponge. Instead you need a brush, or even a pan scrubber.

This will help to stop the build up of calluses and areas of hard skin that can prevent skin from absorbing moisture.

Once you have given your feet a really thorough scrub, then as a next step apply some rich moisturising lotion. Useful ingredients in such a lotion are those containing Vitamin E oil or a shea butter, both of which are wonderful for nourishing skin.

*Massage Feet Regularly

A regular massage is superb for bringing tired feet back to life. You can either get someone to do this massage for you or do it yourself. If doing the latter, then begin by cleansing your feet with a cotton wool pad soaked in either lavender or orange blossom water.

These both have antiseptic properties and are cooling and refreshing to feet.

Next, apply a rich moisturising or foot massage cream to the palms of your feet and gently work it into your feet one foot at a time. Do not forget the are between your toes.

Follow this by using firmer strokes, massaging from your ankles to your toes with both hands. Use your thumbs to massage the top of each foot, and your fingers on your soles.

Finish your massage by gently massaging your toes this will help in helping to boost circulation.

* Treat Your Toe Nails

Always remember that nails need regular attention as well. Toenails actually grow twice as quickly as fingernails do and are twice as thick. You thus need to cut them regularly.

Trim them straight across with nail clippers and file the edges with an emery board.

If your nails are brittle or flaky, then you could be lacking in certain vitamins, including iron, calcium, manganese, silica, or zinc. If so, you could consider using a daily multivitamin supplement.

* Get Shoe Wise

The most crucial aid to healthy, pain free feet is adopting appropriate footwear.

Wearing your killer heels to the office may indeed make a style statement, but it will also often have painful ramifications for your feet. Wearing the wrong type of shoes for long periods of time can cause a range of foot problems. These include blister, corns, calluses, as well as potentially serious foot, knee and back pain, as well as damaged joints.

Choose comfort and foot health over style your feet will really thank you!

These are just some of the many measures you can take to ensure happy, healthy, pain free feet. There are many more so do research further - there is so much more to discover and enjoy about your feet

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