Can pregnant women massage their legs?

I believe that many pregnant women want to take a proper walk during pregnancy, but if they walk too much, they will find that not only their waists are sore, but their legs will also be sore and swollen. Some pregnant women in the late stages of pregnancy even have edema in their legs, which are so swollen that they cannot wear shoes normally. In order to relieve edema, many pregnant women want to have massage, but can pregnant women have massage to relieve edema during pregnancy?

Pregnant women can massage their legs.

The baby grows up day by day in the mother's belly, which is a very happy and exciting thing for the expectant mother and father. But problems follow. As the baby grows bigger, the expectant mother may experience lower limb edema or calf cramps, which will cause her to not sleep well at night. In severe cases, it will affect her own and her baby's health.

Moderate massage can help expectant mothers direct the water accumulated in the legs to other parts of the body in a timely manner, promote water circulation, and naturally reduce edema. At the same time, if you massage your calves, you can also relax the calf muscles, thereby improving the phenomenon of calf cramps.

From this it can be seen that pregnant women can massage their legs. But be careful not to massage your feet, because there are many acupoints on the feet. If you accidentally press the acupoints that are not suitable for pregnant women, it will be dangerous!

What are the benefits of leg massage for pregnant women

The main benefit of leg massage for pregnant women is that it can promote water circulation and blood circulation in the legs, soothe leg muscles, and thus relieve lower limb edema and leg cramps.

The principle of massage is to regulate physiological functions and improve pathological changes through the strength and skills of fingers. Currently recognized effects of massage include: promoting blood circulation, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain, alleviating and eliminating muscle spasms, relieving nerve compression, and enhancing metabolism.

The various symptoms that pregnant women experience during pregnancy can be alleviated through massage. However, you must be very careful when massaging pregnant women, because some acupoints cannot be stimulated during pregnancy, and the massage force must be moderate.