High heels are favored by most women.High heels are favored by most women. Wearing them not only makes one taller but also helps to shape the body and enhance one’s appearance. Wearing them not only makes one taller but also helps to shape the body and enhance one’s appearance. However, many women have a mixed feeling towards high heels – they love them but also hate them. However, many women have a mixed feeling towards high heels – they love them but also hate them. Because while high heels bring beauty to them, they also cause physical harm.
In fact, the design of high-heeled shoes does not conform to human biomechanics. When wearing high-heeled shoes, the body tends to lean forward. As a result, most of the weight is placed on the sole of the foot, concentrating the force on the toes and preventing them from relaxing. Over time, this can lead to deformation of the toe joints. If the toe cap of the shoes is too sharp and squeezes the big toe, it may cause corns or thick calluses, or even lead to diseases such as hallux valgus.
f high-heeled shoes are worn too high, the pressure on the feet will be greater. As the plantar fascia is located at the bottom of the foot and extends from the base of the toes to the heel, it is a thick fibrous tissue that maintains the stability of the arch of the foot like an archer’s bowstring. The higher the heel of the shoes, the longer the posterior arm of the arch becomes, and the greater the tension (pull) on the plantar fascia will be. Over time, the plantar fascia becomes relatively relaxed, and the arch of the foot subsequently drops. In severe cases, it can cause flat feet.
Wearing high heels will cause pressure on the knees and waist. Over time, this can lead to the wear and tear of the cartilage in the knee joint, triggering and exacerbating knee joint diseases and lumbar muscle strain. Lumbar muscle strain will accelerate degenerative changes such as bone hyperplasia and reduced ligament elasticity.
How to choose high heels? Usually, it is most suitable to choose high heels with a height of 2 to 3 centimeters. Because the arch of the human foot already has certain elasticity and good stability. Wearing shoes of an appropriate height can make the body naturally upright, the chest cavity open, breathing smooth, the entire body lifted upwards, and it also plays a role in protecting the arch of the foot, increasing the strength of the lower legs, and making the proportion of the waist and abdomen better. However, high heels over 4 centimeters will impose a greater burden on the body.
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