Excercise
Move your body
Moving your body improves circulation and promotes healing. Simple exercises and daily movement will support your body and help it heal.
6 min
The Auto-Massage
The Headlights
This will straighten your back, improving your posture and breathing, which in turn will help improve blood flow and healing.
The Mountain
The Tip Toe
The Auto-Massage
This movement will relax your ankles and stretch your calves, improving blood flow to the heart, essential to healing.
You can perform this movement standing or sitting.While sitting, slide to the edge of the chair, feet apart, placing your hands on your knees.Sit up straight, looking straight in front of you.
Place the bottle under your foot and roll it all the way forward, then all the way back.Repeat 3 time on each side.Remember to keep breathing.
The Headlights
This will straighten your back, improving your posture and breathing, which in turn will help improve blood flow and healing.
You can do this movement seated if you’re more comfortable.While sitting, slide to the edge of the chair.Sit up straight, looking straight ahead.
Slowly, stretch your arms in front of you.Slowly open your palms, stretching your fingers.Then close your palmsOpen & close your hands, just like blinking headlights.Remember to keep breathing.Do it slowly 3 times, then, if you can, 3 times faster.
The Mountain
This will improve your posture allowing you to breathe in deeply and freely. This is essential to promote both good tissue oxygenation and venous return to heal.
Start in a standing position with your feet apart.Stand up straight, looking straight in front of you.Open your chest and pull your arms straight down your side, lowering your shoulders.
Breathe in and out deeply for 1 minute.And release
The Tip Toe
This movement will stretch your ankle and calf muscles, improving blood flow to the heart, and therefore healing.
You can use the back of a chair for balance.Using the back of the chair, stand up straight looking straight in front of you.
Slowly rise yourself on tiptoes..Keep your legs and back as straight as possible during the movement to really activate your calf muscle.Breathe in and out deeply as you go up and down.Repeat 5 times, then release.
