Use the big toe of your foot to check for physical fatigue

I will teach you a simple self-test method. Even if you notice muscle fatigue, you can save your waist, hip joints, and knee joints from the bad state!

For the human body, the muscles on the calves and buttocks play an important role in maintaining posture balance. They also have the indispensable function of maintaining the stability of the hip and knee joints. Once the muscles in the calves and buttocks are in a state of fatigue, it is possible to increase the burden on the waist, causing back pain, which will make you feel extremely uncomfortable even when sitting well.

However, the muscles in your calves and buttocks often make it difficult for you to feel that they are in a state of fatigue, so you often inadvertently ignore the state of muscle fatigue. MSN JAPAN has written an article to teach you a simple self-test method. Even if you notice muscle fatigue, you can save your waist, hip joints, and knee joints from the bad state!

Step 1: Sit on the ground, stretch your legs, and sit for a long time with your legs touching the ground

Generally speaking, people who have heavy burdens on their joints and waist cannot maintain this posture for a long time, and their bodies will fall backwards involuntarily. If necessary, you can support the back of your body with your hands. Do not maintain this test posture blindly to avoid hurting your body.

Step 2: Spread your legs, straighten your instep, and touch the ground with your toes.

Keep your legs straight, stretch your feet, draw a 90-degree arc up and down with your heels as the center, and try to touch the ground with your toes. At this time, you can check whether the big toe of your foot can touch the floor. When you move, do you feel any discomfort in your hip joint? When you stretch your feet, do you feel different feelings in your left and right feet?

Step 3: Put your legs together and press the insides of your feet against each other

After confirming the problem just now, put your legs together and try to press against each other with the insides of your feet. Maintain the pressing position for 5 seconds and then release. Repeat three times. After finishing, go back to step 2 again, try to straighten your feet, and touch the ground with your thumbs. If you can move your feet easily and your foot muscles become soft, you are done.

Softening of the big toes is a sign that the burden on the hip joints, knee joints and waist is reduced. However, when there are problems with muscles in other parts of the body, the symptoms may not be effectively relieved, and the physical condition may not change. You should be careful not to over-stress the muscles of your legs and feet, and do what you can.

In addition, massaging your lower limbs and buttocks, and stretching your muscles in a warm state after taking a bath are all good ways to take care of yourself!