Help for Blood Circulation
and
High Blood Pressure

There are several factors that can cause problems with your blood circulation and high blood pressure seems to be one of them.

I have friends and colleagues who suffer from poor leg circulation and it`s not just a plague of our elderly. I know middle aged and young alike who suffer from this problem.

Poor leg circulation can cause blockages in your veins that can lead to stroke or heart attack, so it`s not something you can take lightly, but saying that, taking practical steps can significantly reduce that risk, and they are not hard to implement.

Symptoms of Poor Circulation

Poor circulation and high blood pressure can both lead to horrible symptoms. If you are trying your best to walk a little for exercise, and to help your condition, pain in the calf muscles can cause you much stress and discouragement. The most obvious of symptoms are:

Causes of Poor Circulation

Circulation and high blood pressure have several factors linking them. The commonest are:

Atherosclerosis, which is a narrowing of the arteries, can be caused by high blood pressure, and visa-versa, atherosclerosis can cause high blood pressure. Either way they both are high risk factors for poor circulation.

This condition of restricted blood flow brings with it complications due to a lack of oxygenated blood. Tissues, and muscle are starved of oxygen to revitalize them.

Now consider too the blood flow in the venous vessels which lead back to the heart. Poor circulation causes the blood to pool in the legs where blood clots can form. This happens due to failing valves in the veins, and the blood not being pushed back to the heart efficiently.

Varicose veins also cause circulatory problems, and they develop through habitual standing for long periods, and age related problems, such as reduced elasticity of blood vessels.

Poor blood circulation is also a by-product of diabetes where small blood vessels become damaged over a long period of time. The disease also causes fluid retention, numbness and swelling, a trigger for poor blood circulation and high blood pressure.

Now most of us don`t like to hear that we need to do more exercise and in particular, walking. Some of us lead very sedentary lives and sit in the same position for hours upon hours.

Now, if you`re cringing at the thought of daily walks when the weather is cold, wet and windy, well I don`t blame you!

Relax! You have alternative choices on days like that which will bring beneficial results. And besides, not everyone finds walking easy. Some have debilitating sicknesses that make life rather a struggle.

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The Solutions

The alternative solutions to helping poor circulation and high blood pressure are relatively common and they involve exercise, good diet and supplements. But other ways that can boost those efforts, are well worth knowing about.

Watching our diets can be tricky if we are not good at planning and shopping for healthy meals, or used to eating lots of fruit and vegetables. Even the reliance on prescription drugs doesn`t merit the trust that we once had in them. And as we have mentioned, walking is not always easy to do or keep up with, depending on the weather or how physically mobile we are. So what can we do to ensure good results?

Supplementing our diets with minerals, vitamins and herbs will always do us good if we know how to use them. There are herbs that can help strengthen blood vessel walls and open up arteries. Vitamins and minerals that give our liver, heart and kidneys the nutritional support they need to help manage circulation and high blood pressure because they cleanse us of pollutants and wastes.

There are excellent therapies like massage, reflexology, acupuncture.

Electro Stimulation Home Devices are available internationally, which can safely get the blood flowing again using revolutionary therapeutic technology.

It has been scientifically proven that using these devices at least for 30 minutes twice a day can significantly increase blood circulation and also have dramatic improvement for ailments such as -

Dr Anders Cohen, Consultant, Kings College Hospital London said of the electro-reflexology unit that it helps the muscles to contract. When the muscles contract they push the blood up the veins. The veins have valves to stop the blood going back and that keeps the blood flowing to reduce the risk of DVT and also the risk of a serious condition called Pulmonary Embolism where the clot moves from the legs into the lungs. This is an excellent idea…”

The same principle works with special socks that are interwoven with silver fibres to distribute electrical impulses to the muscles. This kind of unit is great for travelling when you are more likely to be sitting for long periods of time, for example, during flights or long car journeys.

The socks have a long lead to the controls and they are washable.

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Another physical aid you could include is the spa bath mat. I have used this therapy aid and really felt the effects when I emerged from the bath. Great if you don`t have a built in spa tub.

You can also use foot and body rollers to massage the bottom of your feet and leg calves stimulating the blood flow. I learned on a recent trip to Abbey Mills Market in Mitcham, that using an instrument called a hand acupressure roller, used in Koryo Hand Therapy, can increase blood circulation of the entire body. When I tried the therapy out, within seconds my hands were generating a lot of heat. The same principle must work with foot rollers too which are covered in nodules.

You may be interested on how to inprove blood circulation using massage, hydro-massage and hydro-therapy.

I was most surprised to see how easy it is to carry out home therapy, and how many ways you can help to keep the circulation in your legs moving. I have even used a tennis ball when seated at my computer, to massage the bottom of my feet. Not only did it feel good, it helped to lessen the tightness I was feeling in my legs when walking, after sitting long hours.

You may be looking for herbal medicine or Chinese herbal medicine to help bring down the blood pressure. Whatever your personal needs are, why suffer much longer with bad circulation and high blood pressure when you can do something about it. Act now before your condition spirals out of control.

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