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Aching legs-your health2009 Copyright Michael Gillan 1 www.aching-legs.org
Aching legs
They are your legs-look after them because aching legs are like bad teeth-they can affect yourhealth if you neglect themFortunately aching legs unless they are medically related (in which case see your doctor) arecheaper easier to fix than bad teeth if you catch them before they become chronic or long termSome problems that may develop if they are not addressed include
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Varicose veins
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Venous insufficiency
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Lower back ache
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Sleeplessness
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Angry muscles
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Spider veins
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Foot problems
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Swollen ankles
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FatigueThere are many more areas of concern and to check some of these out I refer you towww.hazards.org/standing 
The reason foraching legs Too much standing walking or running can contribute to them
The body is basically a column of blood and other fluids held upright by the body structures which is subjectto pressure from gravity and air pressure-left to its own devices it all tries to accumulate in the lowest part itcan find
The lower legs and feet
The only thing that stops it running out all over the ground it the ends of the toes-this is why whenever a cuthappens that is quite deep, one of the main strategies to slow and stop the bleeding is to elevate the parthigher than the heart-this reduces the pressure and hopefully the bleeding by reversing gravity and pressure
What happens when the legs are not working properly-swollen ankles as the fluid builds up
 
Aching legs-your health2009 Copyright Michael Gillan 2 www.aching-legs.org
How can gravity and atmospheric pressure be utilized to help the legs to stop aching?
We could simply use the recommended way of doing it-and reverse the flow so that some of theweight of fluid flows back up the legs to the bodyThis way reverses the flow from the feetThis is known as
passive
recovery because it relies on the blood and fluid to leave the legs andthen the legs can recover themselves- because of the time it takes for all this to work (unknown), thelegs which may be sore, stiffen up and on standing, walking may be difficult to doAs the old blood and fluids have left the legs through the veins, new blood will have been pumpedthere by the heart through the arteries, but it too will have gone coldAll this fluid from the legs has to go somewhere so it goes again to the lowest part of the body, thistime towards the head-on standing many people will go dizzy and disoriented for a few minutes,they may even fall over or trip-this lasts until everything equalises and they regain equilibrium
If You Don’t Move It You Lose ItThis also goes for the legs and the muscles
While you have been lying with the legs elevated the muscles also stiffen up and they may go toolight-the muscles in the legs forget how to move because they are not getting any feedback frompressure and stretch receptors located in the skin, muscle tissues and joints about their environmentand position in relation to the rest of the bodyAll the feedback goes back to a part of the brain called the Cerebellum in latin this means smallbrain-with all the information supplied to it, it compares where the muscles are now, and where theyshould be-this information is sent to the brain which organises the smooth movement of the bodypart to where it is going to
In these runners who have been on the track for 3 days, the legs have stopped moving,they could not get up and walk in a straight line if they tried
 
Aching legs-your health2009 Copyright Michael Gillan 3 www.aching-legs.org
Using an ‘active’ recovery method would both increase the removal of used blood from thelower legs and help the Cerebellum regain its use as a comparator so the legs can worksmoothly again
This is an‘active’method of leg recovery
What happens here that is different to the‘passive’version?Basically while we are still letting the body heal itself, we are helping it to do this which canhelp by-pass the waiting period that exists while using the‘passive’system
What is Light manual Musle Relaxation?
It is a Do-It-Yourself method based on encouraging the muscles and tissues to assist intheir own recovery
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It is
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a massage system
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It is
not
invasive
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It is
not
aggressive
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It is
not
time consuming
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It does
not
need disrobing
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It does
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need oil applied to the skin
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It does
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need strong hands and fingers
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It does
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need hand/brain coordination
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It does
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need equipment
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It does
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work on the muscles
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It does
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work on any specific injuries
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It does
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threaten the integrity of the muscles
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It does
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use force on the muscles
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It does
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need more than a few minutes to do
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It does
not
require a long course or workshop
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