In the park, you can often see the elderly walking on cobblestone roads, many people think that this can massage the foot acupuncture points, play a role in health care. In fact, not everyone is suitable for walking cobblestone road. So, who is not suitable for walking cobblestone road?
First of all, for healthy people, walking cobblestone road does help to maintain health. The soles of the feet are known as the human body's "second heart", Chinese medicine, the distribution of the soles of the feet of many points, is the body's organs of the reflex zone, walking cobblestone road is conducive to the maintenance of the human body's internal organs and brain function, but also to promote blood circulation, enhance resistance, and so on. Of course, walking cobblestone road should also pay attention to the method, such as the best wear soft-soled shoes or thick socks, do not completely barefoot; time is not too long, walk for about 10 minutes; walk when the action should be slow, and to the whole foot on the ground; exercise, should be timely washing socks to maintain cleanliness and hygiene.
Which people are not suitable to walk cobblestone road?
1. Osteoporosis patients. Osteoporosis patients are generally accompanied by soft tissue degeneration and cartilage degeneration, walking cobblestone road will exacerbate the wear and tear of the diseased parts, resulting in knee joint swelling and pain. At the same time, osteoporosis will make the heel bone hardness reduced, walking on hard uneven cobblestone, plantar tissue damage will cause inflammation of the plantar fascia, which leads to localized severe pain.
2. Diabetics. Patients with diabetes have ischemic peripheral vascular malnutrition, especially in the lower extremity ischemia and neuropathy in the early stages, the patient's perception, pain, cold and hot sensations are prone to problems. Walking on cobblestones may cause small injuries, which can be quickly detected by healthy people, but diabetic patients are not sensitive to perception and pain, so it is not easy to detect these small injuries in time. Once the injury is complicated by infection, it may lead to diabetic foot.
3. People with flat feet. The average person has an arch on the bottom of the foot, which not only cushions the shock, but also protects the important nerves, blood vessels, tendons and other tissues on the bottom of the foot, while the flatfooted people have lower arches, or even no arches, which makes the elasticity of the bottom of the foot poorer, and therefore the flatfooted people walk on cobblestones, the bottom of the foot is very prone to injuries.
4. High blood pressure patients. The cobblestone road is uneven, the elderly walk unsteady, it is easy to fall when walking cobblestone road. The elderly suffering from high blood pressure, once the fall, it is easy to danger.
For people who are not suitable to walk cobblestone road to fitness, the use of hands or electric massager to do foot massage can also achieve the same fitness effect. If the goal is to strengthen cardiorespiratory endurance, you can choose to walk, square dancing, jogging, swimming and other ways to exercise.