How to Fix Flat Feet – Best Stretch & Exercise – Dr. Berg

Find out how to get relief if you have flat feet!

hey guys Dr bur here in this video I want to show you what to do for flat feet now I have severe flat feet ever since I was a kid and I did all sorts of arch supports and it never really worked because I’m here I’m standing on my flat foot you know on an arch that’s made from my flat foot it never really fixed it so I’m going to show you uh some stretches and and acupressure points that you can do at least not to necessarily correct the flat feet but to give you a lot of relief this is the only thing that I found that works so basically we have a situation where you don’t have an arch it’s flat right so everyone’s like massaging the bottom of the foot and doing all sorts of therapy and it might give you some relief but you don’t want to do that because we always want to work on the opposite side of where the problem is why because this is going to relax this muscle by stimulating the top part now the first thing I’m going to do is show you a stretch so we’re going to take the toes and by the way this is the same thing you do for planer fasciitis too which is pain in the bottom of the foot so you take the toes and we’re just going to stretch them like this we’re going to stretch and stretch about 10 times and we’re actually stretching this whole muscle right through in here what that will do that will give the foot the signals are sent to relax the bottom of the foot it’ll really give you a lot of relief okay so we’re going to stretch that okay the other thing you can do is you can sit on your feet like this and you can see right here that I’m automatically just the weight of my body is stretching the front part of my foot the muscles on the front part of the foot which is the called the anterior tibialis and uh so we’re stretching this and we’re rocking back and forth and of course if you need to use um like some type of cushion like if you can’t do this position to sit on it that’s fine but you want to gradually stretch this part right here okay step two is to work on the front of the foot the muscles and the tissues in the front of the foot you just stimulate the top of the foot like this especially like right into here and what you’re going to find on people with flat feet it’s going to be extremely tender so you just want to work out the top of the foot no one does this they’re working on the bottom of the foot this is the faster way to give your feet a lot of relief so I’m just working on all the different muscles on the top part for maybe a minute you do the other side of course okay and then what happens when you’re done you’re going to feel the bottom of your feet feel so so good it’s going to feel really good now step two if you have cramping in your feet or your C half that always means that you need a little bit of calcium so take calcium magnesium before a bed don’t take it with with food have it in an empty stomach right before bed if there’s actual cramping in the foot you know sometimes when you point your toe and you get that cramp that’s a different situation okay so go ahead and apply these techniques put your comments below and subscribe to my channel and I’ll see you in the next video