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Physio to stay fit “8” Shaped Walk Maintain Good Health

A Srichandra, Chief-Physiotherapist SIMS Hospital

A Srichandra,
Chief-Physiotherapist

Among the walking exercises, the best exercise is “8 shape walk method”. It is supreme of all. This is one of the best methods which give miraculous benefits. It should be practised daily for 15-30 minutes. Only at the time of driving license we think about 8 and drive the vehicle in the 8 shape circle and get a license. But if we walk in the 8 shape line we will maintain good health. We will see the method of 8 walks, how it should be done properly, and what are the benefits. Nowadays 8 shaped walk footage is avail in several parks.

8-ShapeWalk SIMS Hospital

Procedure To Do “8” Shaped Walking Exercise:

Practice this in the morning, evening or in empty stomach, in the open or in a room in the north-south direction. Draw parallel lines from east to west or west to east in the north side and leave ten feet gap and draw 8 shape line; now practice “8” shaped walking.

Walk North to South and South to North clockwise and anticlockwise 15 minutes each. Practice “8” shaped walking first and then you may do some simple exercise and breathing exercise.

During this walk we will necessarily concentrate on walking in the 8 shape line. Possibility of chatting with friends in person or in mobile like in normal walking is avoided. Proper and normal breathing is possible.

In our hand palm and leg palm all reflex points of our entire internal organs are located. Due to the pressure in palm, at the time of walking (we should walk in the barefoot without shoes/chapel, if feasible) all our internal organs are activated and we get relief from concerned diseases.

Benefits Of Doing “8” Shaped Walking Exercise:

During a walk in the 8 shape our entire body (hip, abdomen etc.) is twisted and all our organs are activated.

At the end of thirty minutes of 8 walking stuffy nose is cleared and feel free breathing from both the nostrils.

In the meantime we can feel the cough in the lungs and sinus cavity get dissolved. The phlegm is eliminated either by spitting out or getting assimilated into the body and your asthma is reversed.

As five kilogram of oxygen is inhaled due to complete respiration, phlegm in the lungs is released. Intake of five kilograms of oxygen energizes the body.

Headache, Digestive Problems, Thyroid, Obesity, and Knee pains, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and constipation is reversed.

It reduces the sugar level in the blood and reverses your diabetes and its complication within a year of regular 8 walkings, twice daily for half an hour.

Improves eyesight. Due to concentration in the 8 shaped line, short sightedness and other eye related problems are improved /curtailed.

Hearing power is improved. Gentle walking reduces the blood pressure.

Practicing this for half an hour twice a day cures foot cracks, all types’ pain and knee pain.

Aged persons and those who are unable to do this by themselves can do it with the help of others and get benefited from even paralysis.

Shoulder, neck, back, lumbar, knee, heels, cervical and lumbar, spondylitis, sciatica, disc prolapse, paralysis, depression, epilepsy, migraine, diabetics blood pressure, thyroid, kidney and gall bladder stones, asthma, sinusitis, piles, colitis, nervous debility, sleeplessness, heart diseases, kidney problems are benefited through this “8” walking.

Practicing this exercise regularly, brings back youth to us, reverses all our diseases.

Happily practice “8” shape walk” and enjoy good health free from all diseases.