Your feet play a big role in keeping you active. Do they hurt? Try the following:

🚶Keep good fitting shoes
🚶Avoid heels and shoe inserts
🚶Stay away from processes foods to alleviate inflammation
🚶Maintain a healthy weight
🚶Massage feet
🚶Stretch

Also be aware that swelling, pain, and. can be signs of more serious conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke.

Exercises to help with foot pain (especially plantar fasciitis) include:
1. Point and Flex
One foot at a time
Point the toes away from you
Bring the toes up toward you
Repeat for 10
Repeat exercise on other foot
2. Ankle Circles
One foot at a time
Rotating your foot, making small circles with your
ankles.
Repeat for 10
Repeat exercise on other foot
3, Toe Stretch against the wall
One foot at a time
Standing
Use the wall to press toes back
Heel on ground
Hold for 30 seconds
Repeat with other foot
4. Calf Stretch on step
One foot at a time
Standing
Put the front of your foot on the step with heel
hanging off the step
You may hold on to something for balance while
you lift your opposite foot off the ground
allowing your weight to stretch the calf.
Hold for 30 seconds
Repeat with other foot
5. Seated Toe stretch with Band
Sit on the floor with legs straight
Place a band, strap, or rope around both feet at the
toes
Pull back and hold for 30 seconds
Repeat
6. Standing Calf Stretch
Stand about a foot from the wall
Step your Right foot back about a 1.5 feet
Bend your left knee
Keep back straight
Hands on the wall
Press into your heel
Hold for 30 seconds
Repeat with other foot

Additionally you can massage your foot and/ or calf using the following props
A Frozen water bottle
A roller
A lacrosse ball

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