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How can elevating your feet be good for you?
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Swelling: Elevating your feet will decrease the swelling in your legs and reduce the pressure on the nerves and vessels as well.
Answered 7/13/2012
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Blood flow: Because blood might have been pooling in your feet/ankle region and by elevating you are removing the gravitational effects and essentially helping to return blood back to the heart.
Answered 3/24/2018
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