How to prevent varicose veins by standing for a long time? Teachers’ prevention methods revealed

The biggest characteristic of the teaching profession is that teachers need to stand every day, which can easily cause varicose veins over time. Therefore, it is important for teachers to prevent varicose veins in a timely manner. Taking foot baths more often, massaging the feet more often, and rubbing the calves more often are all effective ways to prevent varicose veins.

1. Foot bath

Soaking your feet in hot water, especially in water boiled with ginger or chili, can quickly expand the capillary network of the human respiratory mucosa and speed up blood circulation, so that the white blood cells in the blood in the respiratory mucosa can promptly eliminate bacteria and viruses that invade the human body, thus protecting the body from infection.

Hot water foot bath can quickly expand the capillary network of the human respiratory mucosa

People who stand frequently are prone to varicose veins in the lower limbs. Foot bath can speed up blood circulation in the legs and make the venous blood in the legs return to the right heart in time, which is beneficial to reduce venous congestion in the legs and prevent varicose veins in the lower limbs.

In addition, soaking your feet in hot water before going to bed can help calm your mind, relieve worries, induce hypnosis, and make your sleep deeper and sweeter.

2. Foot massage

After washing your feet, rub your hands to warm them up, and gently knead the relevant parts or acupoints. You can massage the entire foot or just a part of it, such as the Domo Yongquan point (sole of the foot), Taichong point (behind the first and second toe joints), or Taixi point (in the depression between the highest point of the inner ankle and the Achilles tendon).

It has preventive and therapeutic effects on dizziness, insomnia, anorexia, dull complexion, fatigue, hypertension, constipation, etc.

3. Lift your feet high

Lift your feet 2-3 times a day, level or higher than the heart. This will increase blood circulation in the feet and legs, and the blood in the lower limbs will flow back to the lungs and heart faster, allowing for adequate circulation. This will allow the head to get sufficient and fresh blood and oxygen, and it will also be a benign stimulation to the acupuncture points and reflex areas of the feet.

4. Rub your calves

Hold one calf tightly with both palms, rub it while rotating, rub each side about 20 times, and then rub the other leg in the same way. This method can enhance leg strength.

5. Foot wrestling

Sit down, stretch your legs, lower your head, bend your body forward, and use your hands to bend your toes and ankle joints 20-30 times each. This can exercise your foot strength and prevent weak legs and feet.

6. Knee sprain

Place your feet parallel and close together, bend your knees and squat slightly, place your hands on your knees, and rotate your knees in a circle back and forth, left and right, first to the left and then to the right, about 20 times each. It can treat lower limb fatigue and knee joint pain.