| Pregnancy and Your Feet: Survival Tips from the Trenches |
14 Jun |
Tips on foot pain relief during pregnancy.
Foot pain, often severe, occurs in every pregnancy. I don’t care if you are a size 2 or 12 when you get pregnant, by the sixth month most woman are complaining of some kind of foot and ankle pain. As a mother of three, I can attest that every pregnancy was unique in its own way, but one constant through them all was “Oh! My aching feet!” and this is from a podiatrist. Let me share with you some of the tricks of the trenches and recommendation from the American Podiatric Medical Association that I learned which helped me survive the pregnancy trauma to my feet.
| Swedish Massage Tips - How to Give a Swedish Massage |
15 May |
Although massage has been around for centuries in Eastern cultures, it didn’t really take off in the West until the 19th century. Under the influence of a Swedish physiologist and fencing master, Pir Henrik Ling (1776-1839), a system was developed that combined massage with physical exercise.
