There are many myths around high-heeled shoes. It is no coincidence that State Duma deputy Oleg Mikheev proposed to ban high-heeled shoes. Orthopedic traumatologist, candidate of medical sciences Sergey Dedov told Woman’s Day how much hairpins can harm our legs.
Calf enlargement. This is not the result of wearing high heels, although there is an opinion that the calf muscles “swing” from the constant lifting of the foot. If the calves have increased, the shoes are not to blame. Perhaps you just got better, or your legs are swollen.
The appearance of varicose veins. If you have a predisposition to varicose veins, then sooner or later it will make itself felt. And this will happen due to hereditary factors, and not at all because you wore high heels.
Doctors advocate medium heel height, and there are many reasons for this. High, but stable heels place tremendous strain on the forefoot. At the end of the day, this load turns into pain, and not only in the feet, but also in the legs and knees. Gradually, this translates into circulatory disorders and joint diseases, for example, arthrosis.
Graceful fragile stiletto heels – a real instrument of torture for the legs. According to statistics, ladies with stilettos are more likely than many others to twist their feet, earn sprains and fractures of the ankles. A sharp narrow cape injures the fingers, they will not only hurt, but will begin to deform, “bones” and corns appear.
Sneakers and ballerinas – do not absorb, they bring pain in the heels, heel spurs appear, flat feet progresses.
How to be? Wear stable heels in the office with a height of 3–5 centimeters and with a rounded toe. When out of work, wear sneakers or boots with 1,5cm heels.
If your feet have already suffered from the wrong shoes, discard them. Find shoes with the right heel height and head to the orthopedic salon to have the insoles made. Individual orthopedic insoles are much better than factory ones, since they are made according to the patient’s foot, taking into account all the anatomical features and the necessary correction of flat feet, support and relief of the feet. Insoles with memory “remember” the foot of the owner of the shoe, it is, as it were, imprinted on the insole, and as a result, when walking, each finger takes its place. There is no correction effect from these insoles, it’s just convenience.
Advice! If you feel pain and heaviness in your legs at the end of the day, take a lukewarm sea salt bath. After that, you need to lie down and put a pillow under your feet, the blood flow will decrease, and the swelling will subside.
Hollywood celebrities have declared a real war on heels. Christine Davis (“Sex and the City”) admitted that she was ashamed of the propaganda of uncomfortable stilettos that injure her legs, and apologized to her fans. The actress herself prefers to wear comfortable low heels and sneakers. Uma Thurman does not part with slippers and appeared in them even on the red carpet.
Angelina Jolie in ordinary life, he wears ballet flats. Kristen Stewart (“Twilight”) prefers sneakers. BUT Emma Thompson she even threw out her shoes in protest at the heels during the Golden Globe ceremony and left the stage barefoot.