Use one foot to pick up all 20 marbles.
Marble pick up rehab exercise.
Use one foot to pick up all 20 marbles.
I repeat this twice.
Pick up one marble at a time with your toes and place it in the bowl.
Repeat the exercise three.
Don t let the simplicity of this marble pick up exercise fool you.
Even after 3 weeks i struggle to do this.
To do this exercise.
Release and then pick the marble up with your second toe and hold it.
Sit up straight in a chair with the feet flat on the floor.
Why foot exercises matter.
According to american academy of orthopaedic surgeons you can exercise the metatarsals by picking up marbles with your toes.
Repeat with the other foot.
Toe raise point and curl.
Learn how to do the marble pick up exercise.
Repeat with the other foot.
I dump a jar of marbles onto a towel and have to pick one marble up at a time and drop it into the jar.
Curl your big toe around the marble pick it up and hold it for five seconds.
I realized the first time i did this how real my injury was.
10 minute picking up marbles i hate this exercise.
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.
Place a marble on the ground.
This three part exercise will start to get your toes and feet moving.
The marble pickup was designed to increase strength in the muscles on the underside of the feet and toes.
This is by far the most difficult exercise.