What are the 10 Varicose Vein Exercises

Varicose veins are common venous vascular diseases in clinic, and there are various exercise methods, the common ones are ankle joint exercise, tiptoe exercise, kicking exercise, leg shaking exercise, foot plantarflexion and dorsiflexion exercise and so on. 1. Ankle Joint Exercise: You can perform ankle flexion activity by resistance, raise your legs and turn your toes around the ankle joint slowly. 2. Tiptoe exercise: the patient stands, legs together with both hands on the back of the chair, with the toes to support the body, and then walk back and forth about 30 steps. 3. Kicking exercise: take a standing position, cross your arms or hold the railings, first kick your left leg forward, then kick your right leg forward, alternately for 16 times, or take a standing position, bend your left leg upward and hold your knee forward with both hands, then bend your right leg upward and lift it upward, as before, 16 times each. 4. Shake the leg movement: the patient stands, legs together, hands on the back of the chair, support the body with the toes, alternately up and down 16 times, or both hands on the back of the chair, the right foot is independent, the left leg lifted up, forward and back to do a large swing. 5. Plantar flexion and dorsiflexion exercises: patients can squat with the help of fixed handrail, and with the improvement of joint activities, they can gradually do other exercises such as jumping rope and standing long jump. Exercise can enhance the strength of gastrocnemius muscle and improve the pump function of gastrocnemius muscle, reduce the blood stagnation in the lower extremity veins, and help to reduce the symptoms of varicose veins. If the symptoms of varicose veins in the lower limbs are serious, or if the symptoms persist and do not improve, the patient should go to the hospital in time for treatment.