Foot Pain and Massge

Feet are your bottom line - as you walk or exercise all your weight bears down on your feet.

it's only when our fee start to hurt - which can happen at any age- that we realize our feet need attention. Injuries, postural habits, and lack of exercise from being constrained in shoes -- all these can lead eventually to foot pain.

Many of us think expensive shoes or orthotics are the only solution to foot pain. But if you want to stop a sagging stomach, do you wear a girdle or start doing those abdominal crunches? If you are tired of flabby underarms or thighs, do you wear loose clothing or do you hit the dumbbells and strengthen your triceps and quads? Feet work by muscles just the same, and if the muscles of the foot are healthy and fully developed - you will not have foot pain.

Can it really be that simple? Yes! You may believe foot problems are heredity and unchangeable - like flat feet, because your mother had them. But everyone is born with flat feet! It's how we develop the muscles of the foot that create and support the arches. Well developed foot muscles and strong arches are essential - not only to prevent foot pain but also to support the rest of your body, and prevent low back pain.

The feet are one of the first places where the muscles begin to contract and restrict us as we age because we stopped exercising them - years earlier than anything else - when we stopped playing and going barefoot. They are confined in shoes all day, and with modern technology, shoes that are designed to immobilize the foot in the name of support!

Foot Architecture
The foot sets the stage for the whole body - when your feet flatten, your ankles cave in and your knees follow your arches, your pelvis drops and your whole spine settles into your lower back .

In today's world most of our feet muscles go un-used. We no longer move each toe separately from the others - but we have muscles to do just that! Can you fully flex or point your feet without cramping? When the foot muscles don't work, they are unable to function in their role as shock absorbers. Our paved walkways, driveways, and sidewalks make it unnecessary for all the muscles that balance the ankle and foot side to side to work at all. And it's not just the foot muscles. If you don't fully use your feet, the leg muscles get tighter after a workout, instead of moving more freely.