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Yamuna Body Rolling Foot Saver Kit ( Yamuna )
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List Price: $44.99
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Product Description
Foot Savers Kit - DVD edition. Once you can easily do the Foot Waker routines, graduate to Foot Savers. These plastic half-spheres, smaller and harder than Foot Wakers, are an intense, powerful tool for improving foot function and preventing your feet from restricting you at any time of life. Foot Savers actually re-educate feet. They improve gait, alignment, and muscle tone, stimulate reflexology points, strengthen arches, increase range of motion, and stimulate and elongate the muscles of the calves, thighs, hips, and lower back. Working intensively with Foot Savers, you can rehabilitate foot problems and literally work your body all the way to your head. Foot Savers come with a video of the basic foot fitness routines. For a detailed foot routine tailored to your needs, contact a YBR practitioner in your area.
This product includes YBR Foot Fitness DVD and pair of Foot Savers.
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Unexciting but effective ( mumfosh )
I purchased these devices (things?) about six months ago; I have ongoing plantars fasciitis and had just developed an ache in the ball of my foot (technically Metatarsal joint pain). The instructions are well-written, and the DVD was amusing (unintentional) and clear. I found it difficult to balance on the things while doing the exercises, so I put my hand on a wall, or a doorframe, or whatever was handy. Doing the exercises was not pleasant, but it also was not painful - I would call it uncomfortable. But I did it. After about a week my feet started to feel better, and I stopped. About three months later my feet hurt again, and I started using them again. My feet stopped hurting after a few days, and I stopped doing the exercises. I seem to go through this cycle about every three months, and I suspect that if I spent the five minutes it takes to walk on the little blue guys every morning I would have happy feet all the time. I certainly think they are a good investment, as I continue to use them as needed.
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 Not what I expected! ( jabell )
Reading the title I expected rollers. Beware, nothing rolls at all. I should have done more research into "Yamuma Body Rolling" because I read this as "Rolling Footsavers". My fault! Once I was past my initial disappointment I tried the product and it worked ok. Relieved some of my foot pain initially but no lasting benefit.
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excellent product ( mmoursi2 )
this simple product really does help your feet. i have also used it on my back and my hands, as suggested by my physical therapist.
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 Blue moons cured plantar fasciitis ( suedove )
I worked as an Target employee for 3 months, and standing on the concrete floors for 10 hours a day (no real breaks!) resulted in the development of plantar faciatis, that never went away! I did all the usual treatments, freezing a can of coke and rolling it, stretches, orthotics, Ecco shoes, etc.. The ONLY thing that cured this, was this relatively inexpensive kit. YES, it was incredibly painful for the first, 10 times. YES, I had to do the routine, in a seated position, or with the aid of a pole, so not all my weight was bearing down. YES, I had to wear socks sometimes to reduce the sensitivity. However, this routine is incredibly powerful, if you stick with it, and use them on your own. I think this is a great theapy exercise, especially if you ice afterwards, or use heat or a foot bath before. These also work wonders on hands. Particularly with thumb pain. Put the moons on the floor, and get on your hands and knees, and press your palms into them. They are very good for deep and specific work. With regards to reducing the intensity of the sensation, on her website, she sells, purple nobby half moons, that are better for "waking the foot up" before advancing into the more specific and deeper penetration that the blue moons cause.
By the way, I talked to a Yamuna Body rolling teacher, and she said that Yamuna has a 2 hour foot routine! The tape is really the tip of the iceburg. If you really want to work on your legs and feet, work with someone trained in the system. Try her leg routine in additon to the total body dvd. The foot routine I've heard is the 10 minute warm up to the other routines. We never exercise our feet, or feel it critical until we rip an achilles tendon, etc... I think this is great! It's worth giving it a try. PLUS it's much cheaper than getting a massage or going to PT (or the perfect way to get more out of either, and continue the effects).
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Very Painful, Little Benefit ( sue_burton )
I don't think these will cause any lasting damage, but be aware that using them can be very painful--particularly in the arch region of the foot.
I think it is useful to work the feet with these massagers, but I find it rather difficult to balance on them and can't bear to put my full weight, standing, on them (except in the toe and heel parts of my feet).
I don't see any lasting benefit or improvement in my feet after using these, but I don't have any significant foot problems to begin with. If you like to work your feet, try them, or just get some of those prickly feet massage balls and sit down while you work your feet. I have also used racquetballs even though Yamuna says you shouldn't. I haven't experienced any damage from sitting down and rolling my feet over them.
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