Lows of wearing high heels

WASHINGTON: You think christian louboutin evening high heels enhance your appeal? But they can actually spoil the beauty of your feet.

Thirty-nine per cent of women in the US say they wear high heels every day, and 75 per cent of them admit experiencing regular foot pain and bunions, arthritic big toes, calluses, hammer toes and warts.

“Many women wear shoes to work every day that look great but they are simply too small,” said Pedro Cosculluela, orthopaedic surgeon with The Methodist Hospital, Houston.

“The biggest problems we encounter are related to the height of the christian louboutin platforms heel and/or the narrowness of the toe box,” added Cosculluela.

The narrow toe box makes it hard for many women to properly fit their entire foot. This poor fit can lead to toe deformities in many women. These include bunions, hammertoes, and calluses. A bunion is a bump along the inside of the big toe, just before the joint.

Bunions are deviation of the toe that is caused by external pressure from shoes that have a small toe box. With time, and ongoing improper shoe wear, the deformity and the bump become permanent and can worsen.

“As the deformity worsens, the big toe loses its ability to properly carry the load, which can lead to increase pressure along two through five. This can lead to pain and cause hammertoes and cross-over toe deformities,” Cosculluela said. “This, and other foot problems women experience because of poor shoe wear,is a gradual process happening over a period of years.”

High heels also bend the toes up and can move the padding under the knuckles of the foot further down, exposing more bone to the bottom of the christian louboutin wedegs shoes, causing a great deal of pain.

He adds that frequent use of high heels can lead with the development of tight calf muscles. This can lead to other painful foot problems such as plantar fasciitis, flat feet and Achilles tendonitis.