Waking Up Your Sleeping Foot

This one is going to sound strange but please bear with me. You know that annoying sensation of your foot 'going to sleep' and you are left to wait, often limping and tripping, until it wakes up. This happens when you are sitting for an extended period of time, perhaps doing something like surfing until you find the last page of the internet, researching what happens when you mix soda and mentos as a possible means of future space propulsion, or maybe you were doing some calculations on the power laws and political blogs. Whatever the reason you had for sitting in a position that leads to this annoying discomfort wait no longer, I may have the remedy. But first a little background for this unusual discovery. Way back when in a long forgotten centruy as a physics student I was talked into attending some martial arts classes known as the Grandmaster "Iron" Kim style school of Oom Yung Doe. I was intimately introduced to pressure points and how those could be used in fighting. Needless to say I am not that familiar with the whole concept of pressure points nor do I really want to delve into the mystagogical(is that a word?) aspects of accupuncture. Neverless I did soon realize that knowing about these points could be quite useful. Nothing like an instructor hitting those points to demonstrate how effective they can be when hit. I digress! Around the same time I came across an article discussing why one's appendage's 'fell asleep'. It was attributed to the pinching of the nerve which inhibited ion transport down the nerve channel. As usual during one of my physics classes that dreadful sensation came up again. Then an intriguing idea occured to me: If the hypothesis of appendage sleep was correct then what I needed to do in order to 'wake up' my sleeping foot was find a way to pump those ions through the nerve channel in order to get sensation in the foot and not have to deal with that annoying sensation plus avoiding tripping or falling because of it. So there I was in class and I said to myself, hey there is a pressure point that I might use to initiate the pumping action. So I reached down and began searching for the point which is located on the back of the calf and began pressing it a few times to pump those ions. Lo and behold IT WORKED! Within moments I lost that annoying feeling, or lack thereof, and could use my leg again. The pressure points I am talking about can be located very easily if you know where to look. Here is a link to a site that has this mapped out and where I got the image in this blog. The point I am talking about is what that site calls BL57( I assume BL means Back Leg) or BL56. I have found it a little difficult at times to determine which point works best so you may have to figure that one out for yourself. Nonetheless, give it try and you may be surprised at the results. It works for me and I use it often when I am anchored here at my puter or some other place where I tend to put my foot to sleep. It may be difficult for you to find those points but when you find them you will know when you press it, it can be a little painful. Please let me know if this works for you. Thousands of years of ancient asian wisdom can be put to practical application to something as mundane as waking up you sleeping foot! ;)