High heels, though a staple of nearly every woman’s closet these days, aren’t exactly the most reasonably designed footwear. We wobble and slip and turn our ankles on every uneven stone, but refuse to trade them in for more sensible flats and sneakers.
High heels are fashionable, but uncomfortable, and can even lead to chronic foot damage. It doesn’t make sense to favor footwear which harm and hurt feet, plus render it difficult to run from ancient and modern predators.
A woman should wear high heel shoes as rarely as possible. Long term use of these shoes poses a great health risk to women. When a woman wears high heels, the bulk of her body weight is on her heels, which can cause hardened heels. Many women right now have heels and soles that feel like sandpaper due to wearing high heel shoes long term.
As heel height increases, body weight shifts towards the inside border of the foot and under the big toe. Over time, this increased pressure on the big toe may cause it to be forced towards the second toe.
Damage to the big toe joint in the form of bunions (hallux valgus) has been associated with prolonged wearing of high-heeled shoes. And women who frequently wear high heels commonly have a larger forefoot area and a longer big toe.
High heels caused a change in the way that the muscles and tendons worked together while walking. Normally, a tendon stretches and shortens, making walking easy on the muscles of the calf. However, heels wearing caused the tendons- and especially the achiles tendonto shorten, leaving the strain on the muscles of the calf to do all the work. Strides were also more forceful and shorter in these women, even without heels on.
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