{"id":1020,"date":"2020-04-30T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acupuncturewaran.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2020-06-07T11:14:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T11:14:38","slug":"self-care-series-%e2%91%a0toes-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acupuncturewaran.com\/nl\/self-care-series-%e2%91%a0toes-feet","title":{"rendered":"Self care Series: \u2460Toes & Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The self care method introduced here works for whole body, but is especially recommend for prevention of knees, hip, and lower back pain. They are also good for mental health such as calming mind, insomnia, anxiety, and so on.<\/p>\n\t

Leonardo da Vinci stated that \u201cthe human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.\u201d<\/p>\n

They contain a quarter of all the bones in human body and make the foundation of human body.<\/p>\n

They are directly related to many of knees, hip, and lumber problems. Furthermore, they affect health problems of upper body and mental health as well.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"69318344_885908055141557_1574311865687736320_n\"\n\t

When I see clients complaining knees, hip, or lower back pain, I always check their toes, feet, and ankle joints. Many of them have some level of toes\/feet\/ankle issues such as bunions, floating toes, hummer toes, calluses, sprain and so on. Sometimes, clients themselves are ignoring or not even noticing, but they are the signs not to be ignored and should be taken care of.<\/p>\n\t

First of all, let’s check how your toes are doing. When you stand naturally, do all of your toes touching the ground equally? Are any of your toes bending? Are the feet facing forward or have some angles? Is your weight distributed equally?<\/p>\n

Let’s do some toe movement check.<\/p>\n\t