After the day walked happens very difficult to fall asleep since the tired-out muscles and a foot just burn for fatigue. Not too pleasant feelings happen also at the people who are carrying out all working day at a table or a wheel of the car. To relieve pain and to remove heavy feeling many try to make foot massage, but, without knowing how to do it correctly, difficult to achieve the desirable objective.
Advantage of foot massage
The correct foot massage not only perfectly takes off fatigue and pain, but also promotes dispersal of a lymph and the blood which accumulated in a day. That there is a liquid accumulation problem, small hypostasis a foot and shins which can be felt in the evening demonstrates.
Foot massage is also excellent prevention of a varicosity since promotes improvement of blood circulation and increase in elasticity of vessels. Besides, this pleasant procedure makes active the active points connected with internals which are located on stupnyakh, and, therefore, positively affects health of all organism and increases immunity. Foot massage is useful and at a stress, nervous breakdowns, insomnia.
How it is correct to make foot massage to himself?
Before massage it is desirable to arrange to tired legs a warm bath with herbs (camomile, oak bark) or essential oils. If on it there is no time, legs need to be rinsed with warm water and to wipe dry.
It is the best of all to conduct foot massage independently sitting, holding the massed leg suspended. It is necessary to apply a little cream on palms or massage oil that hands slid better.
It is necessary to begin foot massage with a foot, carefully, but accurately prominy each centimeter, including space between fingers. Each finger needs to be massed separately, making at first longitudinal, and then spiral movements. Foot can be massed fingers or to squeeze a hand in a fist and to pound bones. The heel is also massed by fingers with effort.
Then it is necessary to pass to a gastrocnemius muscle. It needs to be pounded at first accurately, and then to massage more actively, dispersing blood. It is necessary to avoid at massage area under a knee – vessels are located very close to a surface there and it is easy to damage them, having aggravated the beginning or available varicosity.
How it is correct to do foot massage to other person?
Self-massage of legs, certainly, is useful, however it is much better if massage is made by other person. Such procedure perfectly promotes relaxation and rest. The person to whom the procedure will be carried out has to lay down on a stomach, under a foot it is necessary to put the plaid curtailed into the roller.
It is necessary to begin massage with feet on which it is necessary to apply a little cream or oils. At first foot is massed by circular motions, then – from top to down. In places where skin more rough, razminaniye have to be more intensive. It is worth to remember and about fingers – them mass everyone separately.
After foot the massage therapist passes to an Achilles' tendon, doing movements up-down. The shin and a gastrocnemius muscle at first are pounded by circular motions, then the muscle is studied with more considerable effort of fingers. An important condition of massage – it has to bring pleasant feelings. Under knees it is better for Sohn not to touch not to injure vessels.
Afterwards, if desired, it is possible to pass to massage of hips. Large femoral muscles at first need to be warmed the stroking movements, then pressing should be strengthened. The important condition of the correct foot massage - all movements which are made at the procedure needs to be done from below up to disperse blood and a lymph. After completion of massage it is useful to lie down, having taken cover a plaid and having put legs on a pillow.
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