relief of aching legs using the World Run recovery system

Do you have non-medically related aching legs?

Do you?

• Stand for long periods on your feet

• Spend much of your time walking

• Under constant pressure

Do you feel that?

• There are not enough hours in the day

• When you have a rest break it is not enough time to recover

• When you sit down the legs throb

• When you sit down too long and try to stand up your muscles are stiff?

Are you

• Tired

• Exhausted

Are your legs

• Aching

• Ankles and feet swollen

A cause of swollen ankles is that the blood is made up of many things including water, when the blood is static,the fluid separates from it and fills the tissue spaces-as it can't be pumped away fast enough, the ankles swell.

One of the causes of swollen ankles and aching legs is that the leg muscles are too tight and the calf muscle pump which moves depleted blood from the lower legs against gravity back to the body is not working properly

The Calf Muscle Pump

To keep the circulation in balance in the legs and reduce muscle fatigue, the same volume of blood should come out of the legs as goes into them.

The the arteries veins take blood away from the heart to the rest of the body and the veins which have one-way valves in them take it back to the body again; the way used blood gets back up the legs so that it can be replaced by fresh blood is by a special system called

The Calf Muscle Pump
The calf muscle pump forces used blood against gravity up the legs back to the body for recycling by alternately putting pressure on the venous system and releasing it

As the muscles sqeeze, they open the valves, letting blood pass through them; when the tension is released, they close stopping the blood flowing back down towards the feet.

Oxygen depleted blood is progressively moved from the lower legs back up to the body where it is re-nourished with oxygen and nutrients and sent back out again to various parts of the body through the arteries.

The muscle pump is made up of all the leg muscles and together they form a pump which forces used blood against gravity up the legs back to the body for recycling.

Problems caused by calf muscle pump inefficiency include

Calf muscle tightness reduces the veins ability to open and close by keeping constant tension on them, this is called calf muscle pump inefficiency.

• Poor circulation

• Lymph system inactivity

• Venous return reduced

There are many other problems caused by venous inefficiency and it may be worthwhile looking at

www.hazards.org/standing

One of the reasons the ankles swell and the legs feel heavy

Gravity and the weight of blood in the body

Water is subject to pressure-the deeper it is the more pressure there is at the bottom; on the surface the swimmer feels none, but the deeper he goes the more it affects his body as the pressure increases.

Blood in the body is similar, at the head, the pressure is almost non-existent, but at the feet the lowest part of the body the pressure is higher.

The term for this is Hydrostatic pressure (Hydro-water Static-standing still) and is measured in mm hg.

In a standing person, pressure in the veins is low at the top of the head and high at the bottom; the pressure and weight that is placed on the veins in the legs is very high

Head -10 mm hg

Feet +90 mm hg

In between the pressure increases the further down the body -if it was notfor the end of the toes holding everything in we would just empty out!

If we do not move, with all the weight on the legs and the feet we would be a triangular shape!

First aid needed for fatigued leg muscles

The faster the legs receive help when they are aching, the faster they recover but it is important they get it as soon as possible before soreness and stiffness limits what can be done with them.

There are ways to give the legs first aid

It can be passive; this means letting the legs have their own way and letting them fix themselves up

Lie down with the legs elevated (anything interesting on the television?)

-10 mm hg

+90 mm hg

The effects of hydrostatic pressure can be reversed by using gravity (after all it took it there in the first place) so it can take it back up the legs again!

If time constraints are not an issue then this is the best option to take

If time is a problem because of children, work or play then there is not much left to devote to doing this.

You need a pro-active method of getting all that used bloosd and fluid back up the legs so that fresh blood can flood the muscle tissues and help them recover again.

Active recovery for aching legs

Active Recovery means taking a pro-active role in helping the calf muscles to work the pump at moving the fluid up the legs.

This is where the legs are helped to recover using a system that is directed at increasing the circulation so that fresh blood can flood the muscle tissues

Taking care of your tired heavy legs can be as simple as having better foot and shoe comfort; good shoes can prevent ankle and foot pain.

No matter how much you take care of the feet, it still cannot take care of the aching legs after the day's work and the legs have developed that aching throbbing feeling.

The secret to a faster recovery is to reduce input/output required through-

• Simplicity

• Predictability

• Consistency

This is applied through the latest in non-technical, non-invasive 'cutting edge' solutions

The World Run Recovery System

• Do It Yourself recovery

• No disrobing

• Works with the muscles not on them

• No oil used

• Non invasive

• User friendly

• Easy to learn

A workshop in Denmark

Anyone can get aching legs

The way to deal with them is in the way they are approached-if you deal with them in an aggressive way, they can be stimulated even more by firing pain receptors in the skin and muscle tissues.

The World Run Recovery System overcomes this by working with the mucles not on them

Manuals for various areas of need are available-please look through and buy one

The money raised from this goes towards supporting me on the World Run Project

www.worldrun.org