Baby massage mat

We know that human health begins with the spine. That is why the prevention of its diseases must begin in childhood. From birth, as soon as the child learned to walk, he needs to buy quality, in size, shoes with an orthopedic insole. For the prevention of flat feet and for the treatment of various deformities of the feet, it is necessary to give barefoot walking on the ground. Replacement of this procedure can be carried out at home. To do this, you should purchase or do it yourself a massage mat for children.

Foot massage increases blood flow, trains the muscles of the foot, helps the formation of the ankle joint, relieves fatigue, is the prevention of scoliosis and osteochondrosis. That is why it is so important to have a massage mat at home for your child.

But there are contraindications for a massage mat. This is, firstly, any damage to the foot. Secondly, fungal diseases.

To recommend the use of a mat for foot massage to the child should be an orthopedist. Even when viewed up to a year, it is already possible to identify some abnormalities in the work of the ankle and the foot itself, as well as the tone in the child’s feet. After which the massage should be issued.

It is almost impossible to harm the mat if it is not used for contraindications, and not to massage the child’s feet for up to a year.

In addition to strengthening the legs, the massage mat sends signals to the brain, thereby training it, developing the departments that are responsible for memory, thinking, and speech.

Children's foot massage mats have several types.

They differ in the material from which they are made. It can be silicone, plastic. Themselves can be made from chestnuts, bottle caps, various harnesses. The stiffness of the foot massage mats is also different. They can be soft and elastic, for children of the first years of life, and they can be quite tough for older children.Orthopedic floor mats are also available as separate puzzles. You can choose a different texture and lay out a rug of 8 modules, or you can cover the whole nursery. This typesetting mat would be better to imitate a walk barefoot in nature, and provided that the whole room is covered with it, the children will have to walk on it anyway.

Choose an orthopedic mat should be based on the child's age.

• For a child from 1 year to 3 years, you must choose a soft coating with small irregularities.

• For children 7 years and older, a mat with a hard coating and large protrusions is suitable.

When choosing a mat for children, you must check the certificate for the selected product. Orthopedic mat should not emit unpleasant odors, must dry quickly.

When using a rug, your feet should be clean, and it should be periodically treated with soapy water.

Now in the domestic market, massage floor mats are represented by a wide range of companies. Here are the main ones.

Fosta - produces massage mats for babies. The mats of this company are made of polyethylene foam and consist of eight modules that can be assembled like a puzzle, either in the shape of a rectangle or a circular path. Comfort - the children's mat of this company is identical to the previous model, although a bit more expensive.

Ortho Mix - massage mats for children, imitating different natural coatings. This allows you to choose coverage for any age. The sets of this company can also be taken softer - “First Steps”, and for older children with different types of puzzle hardness - “Forest”, and for teenagers more rigid - sets of floor mats with spikes, stones. The choice of Ortho massage mats is huge, and the price is much lower than its competitors.

The seabed - the mats of this model range of the Perseus Orthopedic Center have five types of coatings. All of them are made in nautical style. Here and shells, and skates, and corals. These mats are recommended for children from three years. The price is quite reasonable, and the various fish and other inhabitants of the seabed will surely please your child.

But you can not buy, and make a massage mat for your child themselves.

For this you will need:

• material for the base, preferably dense, so that the mat under the feet is not going to;
• Patch materials (chestnuts, plastic bottle caps, buttons, cords of various thicknesses, and more);
• thread and needle.

First we make the foundation. For it you can use a sheet of hard felt or other dense material. You can put inside a plastic insert, and sheathe it with any matter. Next, we sew all sorts of irregularities to the massage mat. Pebbles, beans can be glued.

If buttons and other small materials sew you hard, you can sew the pockets on the locks and simply put in them various fillers. It can be cloths - you get soft bumps, and various groceries such as buckwheat, peas, and beans — harder bumps. You can decorate a rug in different ways, which is enough for your imagination, but the funnier the rug is, the easier it is to attract a child to practice on it.

But how to add a child to classes on it? To force in any case impossible. Otherwise the whole effect will be lost.

The first option is to come up with some kind of game. For example, the setting of a fairy tale in which it is necessary to cross the bridge, which is a massage mat. When the child gets used to walk on it, you can proceed to classes.

If you buy a massage mat, then each box describes the exercises that must be performed. Here is a foot massage technique on the floor for the prevention and treatment of flatfoot. Lead time - from five minutes a day.

1. We warm up the feet. Hands on the belt calmly walking on the mat.
2. We walk on the inside of the foot, then on the outside.
3. Rolling from toe to heel.
4. We go on socks.
5. We walk on the heels.

Subsequently, you can add jumps on one and both legs, running, squats, walking "in single file".

Medical assistance of these mats is not proven, but even skeptical doctors are not against the use of this product.

The reviews about them are mostly positive. Many people write that these rugs are a great option for the prevention of flatfoot, but there are reviews and thatthat they helped cure vargus in children. Kids enjoy doing them, especially if the activities are designed as a game.

1. Put a massage mat near the bed, then the child each time coming up to her or getting up from her will be forced to walk on it.
2. A rug of bright balls will decorate the floors in the nursery and will become not only an accent of the interior, but with it you can develop the work of the child’s brain and massage the legs.
3. In the nursery, you can fix massage mats in the form of bumps, jumping from one to another, the child will receive a point massage of the feet.