Do your calves become swollen after sitting in the office for a long time? Improve your health by doing heel exercises

You didn’t eat any salty or heavy-tasting food, but your calves are still swollen? Be careful, it may be caused by sitting for a long time and lack of exercise! Experts say that in fact, if you want to improve the annoying problem of lower limb edema, in addition to office workers being active and getting up to go to the toilet or fill up with water and move around every hour, you can also make use of the fragmented time during meetings and phone calls at work to do "heel up and down exercises", which is a good way to effectively activate the circulation of the lower body and improve calf edema!

Does sitting for a long time cause edema? Poor metabolism and circulatory function is the key!

Why does sitting for a long time easily cause lower limb edema? In fact, the human circulatory system can be divided into two major pathways: blood and lymph. When you sit or stand for a long time and lack of activity, the two major circulatory systems mentioned above will slow down, causing the tissue fluid in the cells to run into the intercellular matrix.

If it cannot be metabolized and eliminated by the human body in time, it will cause water accumulation and form edema. Therefore, except for the rare pathological edema, the causes of edema are related to poor metabolism and circulatory functions of the human body. Office ladies who sit or stand for long periods of time are particularly prone to edema.

Office work can be done easily! Heel-up and -down exercises to train calf muscles, eliminate edema and fatigue

In view of this, Dr. Hiroto Koike, a well-known Japanese medical doctor, and nurse Koori Ichino, who has professional experience as a masseur and aromatherapist, co-authored "Symptomatic Massage of the 6 Major Calf Meridian Points: Beautiful Legs, Stress Relief, and Pain Relief!" The book "Annoying Gynecological Diseases and Chronic Diseases Can Be Healed Without Medicine" specifically shares a trick called the "heel up and down exercise" that can be easily done while sitting on a chair. Not only is it easy to operate and helps activate blood circulation in the lower body, it also exercises the calves, makes the ankles softer, and prevents and eliminates foot fatigue. It is a great self-care method for office workers.

[Heel up and down exercise]

Step 1／Sit on a chair with your feet on the ground

Sit with your buttocks only slightly on the chair, with your feet completely on the floor, and hold on to the chair with both hands for safety and stability.

Step 2: Lift your heels

Keep your toes on the floor and lift your heels up as far as you can. Then return to position 1 and repeat several times.

Step 3 / Lift your toes

Keep your heels on the floor and lift your toes up as high as possible. Then return to position 1 and repeat several times.