Foot Massage Health Care For The Elderly Using Literature Research

ObjectiveFoot massage is an important Part of Chinese traditional massage, which originated and developed in China. Foot massage is a nature of non-drug therapy which has an ancient and emerging history, and it has met with great favor home and abroad with the function of health care for the elderly. Foot massage is therapy of using massage on the foot acupuncture points, main and collateral channels and various reflection area, to causing the benign stimulation effectively, to regulate the corresponding viscera organ and the function of the system, open the human body main and collateral channels, improve systemic blood circulation to prevent and cure diseases, health care, eliminate fatigue.In this article we will know about the original of foot massage, writing of the ancient article, mechanism of contemporary researeh and provisional application of Foot massage in the elderly. And the writer not only point about theoretical basis of foot massage, and the different characteristics of foot massage in ancient times and modern, but also put forward his views about manipulation, operation time, foot reflection area selection requires of foot massage.This is a summary of the research literature on the foot massage. This article can help us exploit the treasure house of Chinese traditional medicine in the foot care massage, and it is important for a scientific understanding of foot massage in the modern national fitness service. The article is helpful to make the foot massage play a positive role in its prevention and treatment of diseases in elderly people’s physical and mental health care.