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hey guys dr. Burke here in this video I

want to show you what to do for flat

feet now I have severe flat feet ever

since I was a kid and I did all sorts of

arch supports and it never really worked

because I’m here I’m standing on my flat

foot you know an arch that’s made from

my flat foot it never really fixed it so

I’m going to show you some stretches in

an acupressure points that you can do at

least not to necessarily correct the

flat feet but to give you a lot of

relief this is the only thing that I

found that works so basically we have a

situation where you don’t have an arch

it’s flat right so everyone’s like

massaging the bottom of the foot and

doing all sorts of therapy and it might

give you some relief but you don’t want

to do that because we always want to

work on the opposite side of where the

problem is why because this is going to

relax this muscle by stimulating the top

part now the first thing we’ll do is to

show you a stretch so we’re going to

take the toes and by the way this is the

same thing you do for plantar fasciitis

• which is pain in the bottom of the

foot so you take the toes and we’re

going to stretch them like this we’re

going to stretch and stretch about 10

times and we’re actually stretching this

whole muscle right through and here what

that will do that will give the foot the

signals are sent to relax the bottom of

the foot it will really give you a lot

of relief okay so we’re going to stretch

that okay the other thing you can do is

you can sit on your feet like this and

you can see right here that I’m

automatically just the weight of my body

is stretching the front part of my foot

the muscles on the front part of the

foot which is the called the anterior

tibialis and so we’re stretching this

and we’re rocking back and forth and of

course if you need to use like some type

of cushion like if you can’t do this

position to sit on it that’s fine but

you want to gradually stretch this part

right here okay step two is to work on

the front of the foot the muscles and

the tissues in the front of foot you

just stimulate

the top of the foot like this especially

like right into here and what you’re

going to find on people with flat feet

it’s going to be extremely tender so you

just want to work out the top of the

foot no one does this they’re working on

the bottom of the foot this is a faster

way to give your feet a lot of relief so

I’m just working on all the different

muscles on the top part for maybe a

minute you do the other side of course

okay and then what happens when you’re

done you’re going to feel the bottom of

your feet feels so so good it’s going to

feel really good now step two if you

have cramping in your feet or your cap

that always means that you need a little

bit of calcium so take calcium magnesium

before bed don’t take it with us with

food have at an empty stomach right

before bed if there’s actual cramping in

the foot you know sometimes when you

point your toe and you get that cramp

that’s a different situation okay

so go ahead and apply these techniques

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