Simple and easy-to-learn hand exercises for health care of the elderly

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Do some health massage often.

Health massage is rubbing, lifting and patting some parts of the body or acupoints with hands to promote blood circulation, improve digestive function, strengthen bones and muscles and improve disease resistance. This massage is easy to learn, easy to use and suitable for family health care. If the elderly can do it several times a day, they can prevent colds and waist and leg pain.

Wash your face dry: rub your palms together and rub your face repeatedly like washing your face, first clockwise and then counterclockwise until your face is hot.

Scratch your head: open your hands and fingers at both sides of your head and comb your scalp from outside to inside from front to back like combing your hair.

Rubbing the eye socket: place your thumb on both temples and your forefinger on the eye socket, and repeatedly rub the eye socket from the inside out, first up and then down.

Rubbing temples: Put your thumb on both temples and press repeatedly, clockwise and then counterclockwise.

Rubbing the nasal root: place your thumb or forefinger on both sides of the nasal root and rub it up and down repeatedly.

Rubbing Fengchi point: place your thumb at Fengchi point behind the pillow, and the other four fingers will naturally open at both sides of your head, and repeatedly press and knead.

Neck rubbing: after the palms of your hands are warm, put them on the back of your neck and rub them back and forth until the skin of your neck is hot.

Rubbing shoulders: put one hand on the opposite shoulder, with the thumb in front and the other four fingers behind, repeatedly knead and lift the shoulder muscles. The two sides alternate.

Knead the arm: put one hand on the opposite arm and knead it up and down repeatedly, first inside and then outside, alternately on both sides.

Press and knead the abdomen: put your hands on the abdomen and press and knead repeatedly, from small to large, clockwise first, then counterclockwise.

Waist beating: put your hands on the same side of your waist and rub them repeatedly from top to bottom. Then, turn your palm into a fist and beat your waist repeatedly.

Knead the calf: put a calf on the opposite thigh, with both thumbs inward and limbs outward, and knead it up and down repeatedly, alternating sides.

Shake your ankle: put one leg on the opposite thigh and one hand on the achilles tendon and knead it repeatedly; Grasp the front of the foot with the other hand, first turn the ankle clockwise, and then turn it counterclockwise. The two sides alternate.

Foot rubbing: put one leg on the opposite thigh, hold the heel with one hand, and rub the soles of the feet repeatedly with the other hand, alternating sides.

This seems to be what Sohu Health said.