Soothing Tired Feet Eight hours, twelve hours, and sometimes sixteen hours on your feet. You really have to admit that nurses are super heroes. Your mind and body has to be operating with 100% efficiency the entire time you are working, since lives depend on you. So at the end of the day, you deserve some rest and relaxation. And the body part that took you from room to room all day, your feet, need some pampering for sure.
Tips for Soothing Feet
Frozen water bottles are great massage tools for tired aching feet. Especially in warm weather, cold bottles feel great and help reduce inflammation. Just put one frozen water bottle under each foot and roll back and forth. It's like getting a massage and cooling treatment all at once. Soaking Feet in Epsom salt helps relax them. Warm water with ½ cup epsom salt per gallon works great to ease soreness of overworked Feet. Peppermint lotion is a great refresher, but you don't have to buy a special lotion. Use any Rich lotion, and add a couple drops of peppermint oil. Mix and rub on feet, or better yet, let someone else do the rubbing for you. When washing, soaking feet or washing in the shower/tub, don't stop at just soaping up. After washing feet, cover them with hair conditioner and rub in well, then rinse. The conditioner helps moisturize and leaves feet feeling soft.
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Reflexology Foot Exercises By stimulating reflex points on your feet, hands, face and ears, reflexology impacts the whole body, affecting the organs as well as the glands. A simple reflexology routine that works on just the feet can help you to drift off to sleep naturally. There are nearly 15,000 nerves in your feet alone, one of many reasons that foot reflexology is so calming, soothing and effective. Reflexologists map out the feet where all the organs, glands, and corresponding parts of the body are laid out. The toes reflect the head. The ridge beneath the toes on the top part of the ball of the foot is a natural shoulder or neckline. The ball of the foot reflects the chest, and the heel and ankles contain reflexes for the reproductive system. The inside curve of each foot (where we find the spinal reflex) corresponds to the actual curves of the spine.