Why are ‘calf muscles’ called ‘second heart’? Actually, the way you take care of your heart, in the same way you need to take special care of calf muscles. According to the specialist, your calf muscles do the work of maintaining proper blood circulation in your lower body. According to Dr. Subhendu Mohanty, Heart Specialist, Sharda Hospital, Noida, it may surprise a little that how important it is for the calf muscles to remain as healthy as the heart.
Calf muscles act as blood pumps
Calf muscles also clean the dirty blood of the heart and conduct it in the entire muscles of the body. It improves blood circulation in the veins. You can understand it like a machine that pumps blood. Like the heart, it also takes venous or deoxygenated blood from the body and then oxygenates it and transfers it to the veins of the body. Your heart valves become damaged or weak. So your second heart also gets damaged. Blood affects your second heart with full speed. Due to which there is a risk of getting diseases related to other types of nerves. Like- varicose veins, spider veins, etc.
During long flights or drives or sitting in one place for a long time, there are many types of diseases related to calf muscles. Or the person who does not exercise at all. After which blood clots start forming in the calf muscles. This is the cause of deep vein thrombosis in the legs, which can be very dangerous.
This link is connected between calf muscles and heart
Dr. Ali Irani, Professor and HOD of Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre, Nanavati Max Super Specialty Hospital, said that the calf muscles act as a venous pump, contracting when you walk and when you sit. relaxes, which helps push the blood back up. Pushes blood towards your heart. It supports the function of valves in the veins, preventing blood from pooling in the legs and feet. Prevents diseases related to nerves.
Do this work to keep the second heart i.e. calf muscles healthy and active
Do this exercise on the stairs
raise legs
do leg exercises
Turn the feet outwards.
do ankle exercises
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