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Summary: Therapeutic foot massages should focus on specific areas of pain and adaptations from soar points. Give therapeutic foot massages with tips from a massage instructor in this free video on massage therapy.
Gretchen Rivas has been a massage therapist for seven years in Wilmington N.C. She attended The Coastal Carolina Institute of Massage Therapy and graduated in 2001. Rivas is currently...read more
"Hi, I'm Gretchen Rivas with Relax to the Max Massage Therapy and today we're going to talk about therapeutic foot massages. Depending on what's going on with your person that you're working on, I'm just going to have to change the focus of what you want to do. If their feet are just achy and soar from working and you're just trying to give them some relief from that, what you can do is go in there and squeeze the bottom of that foot, like I'm doing here, kind of press your thumbs in there, that feels really good. You can take your fists, especially, if they have a lot of callus build up on their feet and it's hard to work on them, using your soft fist feels nice in there on the foot. Ask them where the pain is, it might be like in the arch or it could be along the edge here. You can always get in here underneath the toes and the balls of the feet, especially, if it's a woman and she wears high heels a lot, this part of the foot might be really soar, you might need to get in there a little bit deeper. You want to work on the top of the foot also, loosen this area up here where all these tendons attach to the toes, work on each toe, that helps, and especially around the ankles where everything comes together and comes down into the foot, a little pull on the leg too, in opening all these channels up for the foot will help. A little bit deeper work when you're doing therapeutic work on the foot, it helps a lot, it makes the pain go away if they are suffering from any type of foot pain. That's how you do a therapeutic foot massage."
eHow Article: Therapeutic Foot Massages
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