Your feet do a lot of things. Your feet spend a lot of time moving around, standing still for long periods of time, or working out. There are many ways to take care of tired, aching feet at home. In general, there are many things you can do to make your feet feel better.
These things might help your hurting feet over time. If you try more than one of these ideas, your foot pain might go away faster than if you only tried one.
1. Fill up a foot bath
Your foot pain might go away if you soak your feet in warm water. Adding Epsom salts to a foot soak could help relax tight muscles and possibly reduce swelling in the feet. Even though it might be tempting, baking soda is more likely to help with skin problems than with pain or swelling in your foot soak.
An Epsom foot bath can be made with one cup of Epsom salts and a cup of warm water. Soak your feet in this mix for about 20 minutes to feel better.
2. Stretch your muscles.
You can also try these stretches to help your sore feet. You can stretch your foot in different ways to work on different parts, like your toes or heel. These exercises can help you be more flexible and avoid cramps:
After flexing, pointing, and pointing your toes ten times, curl them for a few seconds each time.
Sit by yourself and stretch your legs out to warm your feet. Put your feet up. Your toes should both point away from and toward your body. Your ankles should be used to make circles both in a clockwise and a counterclockwise direction.
You can keep stretching your feet by shifting your weight from your heels to your toes while standing. This is done by lifting the front and back of your feet off the ground in turns.
3. Have someone rub your feet.
You can give yourself a foot massage to ease pain and get more blood flowing. When you sit down, knead and rub the soles of your feet. Pull your toes apart and bend them to massage them. When you put lotion or oil on your skin, it makes it easier to massage your feet.
If you roll textured cylinders on the floor with your feet, like foot rollers, they might also help massage the foot.