Just about to head out the door for a weekend in Halifax, so here's a quick start to my thoughts on injury prevention. As mentioned earlier, I'm a strong believer in mixing strengthening and stretching as part of a balanced approach to body conditioning. The concept of balance is multi-faceted, so you'll here it often from me. I'm also a strong believer in finding conditioning routines that can be built into everyday avtivities. So, in that vein, let's start with the lower leg. The foot and lower leg get quite a lot of abuse in the run of a day. The myriad of muscles in the foot get the total brunt of gravity, so why not give them a break. During the day, take some time to walk around on your toes and then your heels to flex those muscles along with the muscles in the front and back of the lower leg. Also, crunch up your toes as you walk or run along. Then at night, roll a ball under your foot, pick up marbles with your toes and rid yourself of calluses with a good vaseline massage of the feet.
This could be the start of warding of such ailments as plantar fascitis, achilles soreness, etc.
So,there's a start. Everyone can do these things and you're only limited by your imagination of other things to do to look after your feet. Guaranteed this will stand you well. Stay tuned.
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