Device and method for foot massage

A method of foot massage for non-therapeutic purposes, using a device designed to be positioned under all or part of a foot and at least under an arch of the foot, the device comprising a front face designed to be in contact with the foot, the method comprising:

• providing, on the front face of the device, a plurality of non-hollow protuberances configured to come into contact with the arch of the foot to exert pressure capable of improving venous return, each protuberance having a base, a top, a height and a shape determining a volume occupied by the protuberance, the protuberances being made of a soft incompressible or moderately compressible material having a Poisson's coefficient greater than 0.30, and being shaped and arranged so that their flattening causes them to spread out, filling all or part of the volume between each of them and increasing a surface area of the device in contact with the foot,
• wherein the front face is configured to:
• provide a first phase of blood ejection by localized pressure of each protuberance on an area of the foot facing it, and
• provide a second phase of blood ejection after deformation of the protuberances under the effect of the pressure exerted by the foot,
• the compressed protuberances together forming an increased surface that exerts a venous return pressure on areas of the foot not solicited during the first phase of blood ejection.