You would think that women generally take much better care of their feet than men do. Men aren’t expected to take the time to have clean, well-manicured, pretty feet. They don’t have to wear open-toe sandals or other fancy shoes. How lucky for them. For us women we get the pedicure every two or three weeks because we tend to wear those open-toe shoes quite often. We indulge in buying those sexy high heels and we must prepare our feet to look good in those back damaging, bunion giving, feet deforming, killer high heels. So why do we put all this preparation into making our feet look beautiful if we just stuff them into high heels that can potentially damage and deform so badly that we’ll eventually need foot surgery to fix them up again?
High heels force your feet into a painful and uncomfortable position. In high heels your foot is slanted forward and your weight is primarily on the balls of your feet instead of evenly distributed across the arch of the foot. Toes are bent upwards and crunched together, and the position of the heel raised upward causes the Achilles tendon to shorten. This makes the high heel not only horrible for your foot but likely to cause deformities like Hammertoe, bunions and corns. High heels put you in enough pain without having to have hammertoe surgery, bunion surgery, or having to remove constant soft corns or worse having to have hard corns painfully burned or cut off by your podiatrist Los Angeles foot doctors recommend switching to wider more comfortable if possible flat shoes to prevent all these problems. By opting out of high heels you are not only preventing these foot problems you are preventing problems all over your body.
If you absolutely can not live without heels there’re are a few things that might help to lessen the pain and problems high heels bring to your body. When shoe shopping you must focus on fit, this does make shoe shopping a bit more difficult because of the sizing varies on style and manufacture of the shoe but it will all be worth it later. Think about the width of the shoe as compared to your foot, then the thickness of the heel and the shape of the toe. Wearing heels 1 ½ to 2 inches shorter will reduce the severity of pain and the stress on your body. Where high heels to events that do not require a lot of stand time, or where them to work if you work in an office area where you are sitting most of the time. Comfort insoles like Dr. Scholl’s in your high heels and other shoes for comfort will minimize damage and pain, or when possible bring extra shoes. We all know that a pair of comfortable shoes makes a world of difference.
