How to take care of foot

 

Every athlete on track and field is preparing himself for his goal for which he is taking at most efforts. During his journey an athlete always look for his strength improvement, pace, performance and diet, but sometimes forget to take proper care of his feet. During the run while chasing the distance runner puts repetitive huge amount of stress several times of body weight on their feet which makes very essential to take care of feet.

Runners always enjoy their performance and to continue the joy of running taking right action immediately to foot care can reduce or minimize the pain and future complications due to injury. As a runner taking proper foot care is need of the hour, and neglecting towards it may lead to injuries which may take you to higher amount of risk and further may stop you to run.

Following some preventive measures like investing in good shoes- sprinting spikes, properly lacing up, use of quality socks, early treating blisters, fungal infection, avoiding use of wet shoes, applying moisturizing cream to feet, walking barefoot to strengthen your foot, improving ground contact time, massaging your foot, checking shoes damage if any, replacing shoes after every 6 to 7 months depending upon the run and most importantly taking immediate help of professionals to ensure damage control can help a runner for continuing to gain the numerous health benefits from running.

Taking proper foot care is route to success.