Edema? Swollen Feet? The Best three exercsises to eliminate swelling! 

Thank you for this video. At last! You have given us exercises which ARE EASY TO REMEMBER. No more having to keep referring back to the iPad/phone/computer, losing your place and then your patience. And they can be done almost anywhere too. You didn’t blind me with science and, as an 86 year old I very much appreciate that! 😊

I have a job where I'm sitting all day long...my feet were extremely swollen for 3 days...I didn't realize what was happening...not only was I sitting for long periods of time I was gaining so much weight...i was walking around with swollen painful feet for 3 days. It got to be so painful that i was going to take myself to the hospital...anyway I did these exercises for 15 min and I felt better my feet are not swollen anymore at all. I can walk! K can walk! I thank God for leading me to this video. It was God because I'm single and live alone. We can't take our health for granted. I'm gonna start exercising more, eating better. Thank you so much for this video. I'm literally crying because these exercises I feel saved my life.

The Chinese Qi Gong practices of swinging the arms loosely while slapping the body with the hands rhythmically and in patterns that drive fluid back to the heart, have greatly helped me.

This really works, I was able to completely get rid of my ankle and leg swelling this way without compression stockings.

Great video. These exercises do help. Please note, however, that the problem is not just blood veins. Water retention is primarily in the lymph system. The lymph system is not powered by the blood/heart system. It only functions by the contracting of the muscles. Exercise is the only way to move fluid through the lymph system. So exercise!

I am 91 and thank you for your help. Will try all 3 exercises.

Hello Doug, I walk 3 miles every morning and consider myself to be pretty active. All of a sudden I got edema, I went to the doctor and they prescribed me a water pill. I an currently taking the water pill, but my legs are still swollen. My right leg in particular. I had an Ultra sound and there are no blood clots. I watched this video and consider it a challenge. I am going to do all 3 exercises, 3 times a day and I will let you know what happens. I hope I can share the success of your patients.

Thank you Dr. God bless you. Will surely start with these 3 exercises.

Thank you Dr Weiss for this very good advise and clear explanation

Thank you - I will definitely start doing this!

My feet have reduced considerably since doing these exercises. I can now get shoes on i havent been able to for years!

Thank you very much. I will start doing all the 3

excellent advice. Thank you.

Thank you doctor striaght to the point andi have started these 3 steps already.

Thankyou so much doctor this is really simple and easy solution for my problem in long journeys.

Great job! Thank you very much! I have found that the standing one is easier for me to do then the other two. Holding onto the sink while doing squats has also helped in making my legs stronger. They always feel real stiff at the beginning.

This is great! Thank you!

I'm doing the toe lift right now. Thank you for an easy to do excersize that I can start with!

This really does work! Thank you 👍🏽

Thank you Doug

Thank you for this.

TYVM for this simple tip

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much for sharing this very effective 3 exercise Dr weisse...

Awesome! I am gonna get started after I finish my comment. I have Raynaud's Syndrome. I have a lower broken back (before COVID) so I can't do much activities like I used to. My mother had and my sister has leg circulatory issues as well. Edema is so painful, I'm always hollering at my 3 Pitties (60 lbs each) to get away from my feet.😬 Thank You Dr Doug for sharing this information.

Thank you will try them👍

Thank you I'm glad I found your presentation it added to my life span ❤❤😂😂 much appreciation

I like your presentation very much. I will start these exercises today

THANK YOU!!!

Excellent one

Thanks, will give this a try...

Thank you 👍

Thank you for the exercises. I have recently been doing the latter two exercises while in rehab but I never knew why. Now I know why.

Thank you will try them

I'm 74 and will do this daily from today on. Thanks : ) Los Angeles

Great video, Will keep you informed. Shared!

Good information Dr

That is great, thanks very much, God Bless You!!

Thanks for the nice video and explanation

Odema or Edema can also be caused by low protein in( blood test) your diet. I had this problem whilst in hospital, It was quite scary to see tissue fluid leaking out of my arms. With the right treatment, wearing compression socks, exercising, things improved. I was also given water tablets to take which helps remove any excess water in the body. I could drink as much water as I liked as the body only removes any excess it doesn't require. It took about 6 to 8 weeks for my legs and feet to get back to a more normal size and I still take the water tablets(1 a day) Walking every day is a great preventive with a proper diet , low salt high protein.

This works exercises and compression stockings have reduced the fluid I had small weeping edema this has now stopped so many thanks

I really appreciate your exercise information. TY

Thank you!!!

Thank You I have started these exercises as part of my daily routine

Thank you so much

Thank you soo much DOC .much appreciation

Thank u .I will be starting these right away i have had problems fir the last 32 yrs. I wear compression socks i hate them but i wear them everyday. I hope this helps .

Thank you! I hope this works!

Thank you.

I am 66 years old and I am starting to do this exercise today. 💪

Thanks doc starting now will inform you the outcome...

Thank you very much for sharing these, how many times a day should we do these ?

Very good Thaanks

Excellent

Thanks

Many many thanks

Todah! I was looking for something like this?❤

My mum has Adema in her feet & ankles . She is 87 years old in a nursing home. It has swollen up again in feet & ankles. I have massaged her feet & ankles in a carrier oil mixed with essential oils for inflammation. Soaking feet first. She cannot walk now has COPD . Looking at your video . I will get mum to do seated exercise . With her feet. Thank you so much for your video

I'm 84 and am starting these exercises today. Thanks!

I'm late in finding this video, yet so happy I did in my search to find some thing, any thing that I could do that is so simple. I started doing the first one when I went to bed last night. The painful foot swelling subsided so fast. I actually got a good night's sleep. Today I have done all three and the difference is incredible ! Thank you very much. My life of less pain and more future mobility means more than I can express.

Thanks doctor ❤🎉🎉

Thank you for sharing those exercises 🙏🏾😊❤️🌈

I had knee replacement 1 year ago My foot went stiff and still is very stiff I cannot walk very far without the help of the walking stick I do water aerobics 5 times a week I m now trying your exercise Thank you so much Godbless you

Did anyone else just do the seated heel/toe raises while watching this video? I tweaked my right knee earlier this week working out and my calf got a bruise and puffy; a press check showed pitting. I wear compression socks for work but they're ankle height and I walk as much as possible while at work. Hope this helps!

Thanks.

Thank you

Hi, I have those problems of swollen feet, so am going to try it right now. Thank you.

Great!❤

Thank you so much my friend. Just what I need ❤

Thank u I do this exercise regular it helps me 🇹🇹🇹🇹

I do the first one but will try the other ones

Very good e exercises sir Thank you This also gives stability for legs after hip surgery.

Have had foot swelling after taking nsaids. Thanks for the simple way to reduce swelling.

I began having horrible swelling in my last period 😭 I am absolutely trying this.

I shall try these n i hope to feel better

Thank you so much. I have been suffering from edema for a long time due to varicose conditions in my legs.if I travel by car for 3-4 hours then edema develops. Could I follow your instructions for this condition?

I've been doing these ankle pumps and several other "exercises" for more than 20 years, long before I knew I had edema. I didn't know I was doing bonafide exercises. My legs just did them on their own. I do it instinctively, even in my sleep. It drives my wife crazy. She gets up to sleep on a couch and blames me for being addicted to pedaling my bike 24 hours a day whether I'm on the bike or not. Also until about two years ago I was riding bicycle 15 to 50 miles per week, mostly on weekends. I began having this edema during the many years I was an avid bicyclist. It didn't start because I suddenly became sedentary. I am not now nor have I ever been sedentary. These exercises do not reduce edema, except for a short period of time while doing the exercise. Fifteen minutes later the edema is right back where it was before.

i suspect the cause of my edema is blood clot. What i did is i did breathing/tapping exercise around my liver and heart area, massaged my underarm lympnodes, and did press heart connected accupoints. Edema is completely gone after 2 days session

The best leg exercises are the ones you do when you are eating: eat as varied of a salad with dark leafy greens like kale and also beet greens and their stems, these are good steamed, drink Landers All Dark Cherry Juice, eat a variety of vegetables and fruits, including starchy foods like baked potato, brown rice, quinoa. Learn to grill mushrooms without oils and tofu as these are wonderful in a Buddha bowl. Drink plenty of water and wear shoes which do not restrict your toes. Change to Morton’s Lite Salt which is still iodized, it is NOT Sodium/Chloride, but POTASSIUM / Chloride! It still tastes salty, but it does not raise blood pressure. Do not cook with salt, no matter the recipe except for baked goods. Salt only on the surface when you eat at the table, you will enjoy your food without missing the excess sodium which makes you retain extra fluids which makes swelling much worse. Drink adequate water, you still need it. Lose weight, eat Whole Foods without oils or butter. If you enjoy Oriental foods, get the Less Sodium Soy Sauce. Use Sweet and Sour more than the Soy Sauce. Many people have high blood pressure but it can be controlled by stopping the salt as described above but when this is not enough, drinking red grapefruit juice, as well as eating red grapefruit, is effective in lowering BP. NOTE: if you are taking BP meds, you want to take your BP as it begins to come down, cut your medication down but tell your doctor your intent so you can plan together what numbers are worth taking less meds, many doctors do not know that diet can and does work. Usually doctors think that you start BP meds, you are on these the rest of your life. Grapefruit also helps lower cholesterol. We get Del Monte Grapefruit in Extra Light Syrup, it also comes artificially sweetened for diabetics. We find this Delicious Monte grapefruit in the jar at the Super BIG Walmart in the produce section, it is refrigerated. A Whole Food Plant-Based diet got me down from 200 to 120 lbs. and my weight is easily controlled between what I eat and walking or exercises. It is worth it to feel so much better. We do enjoy our food, but we do not live all our lives eating. We eat to live, but not live to eat. I was on a wheelchair, no more. I am active. I do 10,000 Steps so I am getting natural Vitamin D. I am 71 years old and don’t have to take any medications. My husband has had cancer and post surgery, has survived 7 years! He had the high BP and I had the high cholesterol, the grapefruit was what worked for his BP and my cholesterol. It is more fun to drive up to the mountains and hike around than sit in the doctor’s office. What we eat gets and keeps us full. Any diet that makes you hungry and does not solve hunger is not sustainable. I learned to eat this way following Dr. John McDougall’s book, “ The Starch Solution”. Got it on audible and listen to it as I walk to encourage myself to eat right every day. I was brainwashed to eat to get sick, it is my strategy to end that programming with Truth! Our Standard American Diet is addictive, it makes us fat and with many diseases. All the meds then just make us more toxic the older we get and are hard on our liver and kidneys. The best thing is to learn a new way to cook and stop fueling diseases. It is FREEDOM!

Im glad to watch this coz I have chronic venous insufficiency

My left ankle isn’t swollen but my right ankle and leg is because it’s paralysed (polio). I can’t do the exercises but I do find it useful to sit with my right leg high to reduce oedema in my paralysed leg. Even without the muscle function, walking pumps the liquid.

Very excellent 1:38 activity I’m awaree 😂if this now what you say how to strengthen advice for theses exercise problems

Will the same exercises help with stasis dermatitis?

Hi doc! I have subcutaneous fat & lipoma on my foot.& ankle.It looks like swelling.Had a Doppler test.Report says it is the above problem.It looks very bad.I have it on both foot & ankle.Please give some tips how to get rid of them.Docs say it can be done suction.Is it safe.

Can you show any exercises if your right leg is paralyzed do to a stroke???

thank you so much

Your the Best Easy to Do and I walked better in 15 mins..My swelling went Down in 30 minutes almost normal..THANK YOU and ur free .Been to a zillion PT's guy's..THANKs😁😁😁😁

I do bout 100 jumping-jacks and also do stretches on most days.

Thanks doc

GREAT VIDEO THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟 DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜

I have varicose veins.. Can i do them.. Also in one leg I have undergone EVLT operation.

I have swollen feet & legs. I also have blood clots and my feet & half of my left leg & had gotten darker in color. I started doing the first two exercises with the suggestion of other P. T. but, not on a regular basis. I still did see some improvement. Now I'm going to incorporate the third exercises you showed & keep in touch with my medical team. Thank you.

I just watch this video and i am so excited. I weigh almost 250lbs and that i what cause my ankles and feet to be swollen. I am going to do these 3 exercises evey day for my ankles and feet be back to normal Also i am in the process of losing weight to and be healthier. The weight caused my ankles and feet to be swollen.

How about edema cause by medications

Tq Dr Sir. 🙏🏼👍👏👌

I like!!!

Thanks Doc I 'have had edema pitted for many years. I was able to get a lot of it under control for awhile doing a keto diet and losing some weight but I can really feel the blood flow into the feet now doing these exercises.

As they say, this "just what the Doctor ordered"... thank you and God Bless !

How many times a week ?

Thank you for this vidio years ago ive done these three excise and i recd good looking legs ive been told by alot of people but for the last 5yrs ive been having alot of swellon pins and needles and alot of cold in my feet doctor really dont help me with this problem but after seeing yor vidi tonight ill go back too these three ex thank you the best advice ive gotton