Use one foot to pick up all 20 marbles.
Marble pick up rehab exercise.
Don t let the simplicity of this marble pick up exercise fool you.
According to american academy of orthopaedic surgeons you can exercise the metatarsals by picking up marbles with your toes.
I repeat this twice.
I realized the first time i did this how real my injury was.
Repeat with the other foot.
How to use marbles for foot therapy.
Sit in a straight backed chair with your feet flat on the floor.
This three part exercise will start to get your toes and feet moving.
This is by far the most difficult exercise.
Why foot exercises matter.
Use one foot to pick up all 20 marbles.
Learn how to do the marble pick up exercise.
Place a marble on the ground.
Repeat the exercise three.
Release and then pick the marble up with your second toe and hold it.
The marble pickup was designed to increase strength in the muscles on the underside of the feet and toes.
Foot strengthening exercises promote long term healing of plantar fasciitis by sharing the load of weight distribution and impact as well as stabilizing gait problems and pronation both of which commonly cause or worsen plantar fasciitis.
To do this exercise.
Pick up one marble at a time with your toes and place it in the bowl.
Pick up one marble at a time with your toes and place it in the bowl.
Curl your big toe around the marble pick it up and hold it for five seconds.
Repeat with the other foot.
Toe raise point and curl.
10 minute picking up marbles i hate this exercise.