Massage is not the only thing. Reducing lotions play an important part, and these can be bought and applied at home, so that the good work goes on between treatments.
Exercises, too, are employed, and these can also be done at home. There is the rotary one that you all know, crossing the right leg over the left and then rotating the right ankle fand vice versa), describing as wide a circle as possible.
Another good one is to stand on a small stool or something that raises you off the ground, and shake one ankle as vigorously as possible. This thoroughly stimulates the circulation, and in so doing helps to bring down the fattiness.
Standing on a book with the heels overhanging, then gradually lowering them to the floor and up again, standing on tip-toe, is an exercise which should be done regularly night and morning and whenever you can spare time during the day.
Follow this once a day, either night or morning, by soaking the ankles and legs in a basin of hot water containing reducing salts,
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