An uncomfortable deformity which frequently impacts your feet are bunions. These are an abnormal, swollen bony lump that appears around the joint at the base of the big toe. These are technically named hallux valgus. These are the consequence of a combination of poor shoes, biomechanics and inheriting the wrong genes from your parents. They tend to be progressive and get a whole lot worse eventually. There are many complex factors associated with determining that progression including exercise amounts, type and fit of the shoes worn, the impact and degree of the inherited propensity and the character of the foots dysfunction.
There's only one method of getting rid of bunions which is with surgery. As the foot is a weight bearing part of the body and surgical management will include the breaking and resetting of the bones means that this is simply not a minor treatment. There is also a chance of recurrence in the event the factors that resulted in the bunion are not addressed. For that reason many try to find alternatives to surgical treatment and some do not like splints, so bunion exercises are generally one option. Exercises usually are regarded as a more natural technique as nothing artificial is worn. It is unlikely that exercises is ever going to make a bunion disappear, however are valuable to keep the feet healthy and the great toe or hallux joint mobile and flexible. Exercises can certainly be used to help with some of the pain that occurs deep within the joint as the condition progresses, however there are several thoughts that exercises may perhaps cease or slow up the development of the bunion. The type of exercises which might be advised contain those that help strengthen the arch of the foot and strengthen the muscles that would prevent the big toe or hallux from being pushed over out of place. Other exercises to stretch the ligaments and keep the joint mobile are also beneficial.