Foot Massage

Foot massage is significantly different from, for example, back massage Massage of the back - when it really useful?   - And not just the fact that different parts of the body are massaged. During the back massage is stimulation of only those muscles, which have a direct impact, and foot massage is beneficial to the whole body at once. The fact that the soles of the feet are located reflex points, which stimulate can act on various organs. A lot of these points are located, such as the arch of the foot - in reflexology is believed that it is related to the spine.

Of course, the best foot massage will make you an expert, but not always and not everyone has the money for it and time .  So you may well foot massage for yourself - for that you do not need any special knowledge and skills .  The easiest way to do foot massage - walk barefoot on gravel or grass .  It not only stimulates the reflex points, but simply brings the joy of direct contact with nature, which many of us today are lacking .  However, if the court of the winter, or you live in a city where you can not walk on the grass, without the risk of stepping on broken glass, do not worry .  Buy wooden box size 40x40 cm, and sprinkle it smooth sea pebbles (you can buy them in some stores, or dial during a trip to the sea), dry beans or peas so that they completely cover the bottom .  Stand in the box with bare feet, and a trample the stones or beans on their feet about 10 minutes a day (you can do this, for example, when watching TV) .

And, of course, you can do foot massage the most common way - that is, with the help of hands and massage oil.

• If you have time, start with a warm foot bath. Pour into a bowl of water, if desired, add a few drops of essential oil Essential oils and conception: can help the roses? And keep your feet in the water for 5-10 minutes. Wipe the feet with a towel.
• Sit or lie down and relax. Prepare a towel that you lay one leg while massaging the other (for effective massage is important that the feet were warm).
• Apply a foot massage oil or lotion. If you have cold hands, pre-soak them under warm running water.
• Within a minute, rotate the foot clockwise and counter-clockwise to slightly stretch the ligaments.
• Put the foot on his knee, and firmly squeeze it in your hands, starting from the toes and ankle. Increases the pressure when you are moving from the toes to the ankle, and weakens it, moving in the opposite direction. This helps drain excess fluid from the soft tissues of the feet.
• Rub the soles of your feet with your thumbs and knuckles. Perform longitudinal and transverse rubbing movement.
• Intensively stroking the upper part of the foot. Spend your fingers between the metatarsals, knead the skin between the toes.
• Now focus on the toes. First massage in a circular motion joints at the base of the fingers, and then - fingertips. Begin this step massage the little finger and ending with your thumb. Then rotate each toe in different directions, and gently pull them up - if you hear a light crunch in joints, do not be alarmed, this is normal.
• Finish the massage strong, slow strokes upper and lower sides of the foot. In the same way a massage the other foot.

Try to find time to a minimum of five minutes every day, do yourself a foot massage. It perfectly relaxes and helps to solve many health problems. Because the feet are located many acupuncture points, this massage is a beneficial effect on the whole body.

You can do a simple and funny foot massage with your partner. Lie down on the floor or on the bed so that you are rested his feet in his foot. Such touch itself a lot of fun. As can be strongly pressed foot to each other, they follow the circular and any other movement. It stimulates acupuncture points, improves circulation, and gives another reason to have fun together.

Place one hand under the sole of the foot, and the other - on top of the foot. Gently slide both hands along the foot from the heel to the toes, and back. Massaging the foot arch, perform a circular motion or padded knuckles. Massage the toes - crush them, knead, turn in different directions. He gets a lot less attention than his fingers, and they deserve no less than careful maintenance.

Why do I get plantar warts

Wart - a viral benign tumor of the skin, which is based on the expansion of the surface layers of the skin (epidermis). The causative agent of the disease is the human papillomavirus (HPV). Under the influence of HPV occurs proliferation of the outer layers of the skin with increased keratinization and cell death.

Nearly every adult is a carrier of HPV, but the disease it causes is not at all, this requires additional factors in the form of reduced immunity, colds, stress How to beat stress? Create an oasis , Under the influence of exhaustion of chronic diseases, intoxications and infections, and so on. It also requires small injuries and abrasions on the skin. In the surface layers of some warts can be found spines of raspberry, rose, crystals of asbestos ("asbestos warts"), which were the cause of possible violations of the skin and place the introduction of a viral infection. Sometimes the warts appear in the places of contact surfaces of the toes on both sides. The reason for their appearance is often a tight shoe, sweating feet, flat feet Flatfoot - help physiotherapy .

Warts are divided into simple, flat (juvenile) and pointed. Ordinary warts on the plantar surface of the feet are called plantar. They make up about a third of all warts.

HPV can become infected after contact with the sick person, through objects of care (HPV can persist indefinitely on the surface of objects) gate for the introduction of the virus are small scratches or cracks in the skin. Infection can occur in public places such as Bath Sauna and health: the benefits and harms of bath procedures Swimming pool, where it is easy to damage the skin of the feet.

Another type of infection - samoprivivka when, for example, as a result of microtrauma HPV on the skin of the foot, which was already on the skin surface, embedded in its surface layers.

Symptoms of plantar warts

Plantar warts appear mainly on the sole of the foot below the first finger in the heel area, at the base of toes on the fingertips are different sharp pain and immune to treatment. They resemble calluses, but differ from them that do not consist of a solid horn mass, and from the beam threadlike growths papillary layer of the skin, surrounded by overgrown horny surface (of the grave, dead cells of the surface layer of the skin), the skin layer having the form roller. In the middle of the warts often see small black dots, which are remnants of the capillaries.

Plantar warts appear as follows: first on the sole there is a slight rise of brilliant, is quickly covered with layers of dead skin (squamous) cells and turns into a solid education hilly dirty gray. Most such wart grows and becomes the "parent", and next to it there are children, smaller warts. Small warts can fuse together, forming a warty surface.

There are deep plantar warts with a recess in the form of a crater in the middle.

Diagnosis and treatment of plantar warts

Plantar warts - a benign tumor, which under certain conditions can turn into skin cancer. Therefore, the tissue removed warts necessarily sent to histological examination to exclude malignancy (if any other treatment carried out entirely).

Plantar warts are difficult to treat and often recur (come back). First they are treated by conservative methods - remove the surface layers of the skin with various medicaments (today often made by applying to the skin of the foot podophyllin suspension in liquid paraffin) is introduced into the region warts antivirals (e.g., interferon). Amenable to such treatment only superficial warts.

If this does not help, plantar wart removed surgically. In the presence of the "mother" warts remaining after removing the warts go away. Surgical methods for wart removal include scraping Scraping - heavy and unsafe procedure   its special sharps removal using liquid nitrogen, electrocoagulation, laser and radio waves.

Plantar warts are often the consequence of various orthopedic diseases, so when their treatment is always required consultation (and possibly treated) podiatrist.