Why wearing heels for a prolonged period is not good for your foot?

For a woman, good footwear is as important as good clothing. Wearing high heels makes our outfit look even more better and helps us to look taller. But it comes with a price!

Why you experience foot pain after wearing heels for a long time?

  • If you wear high heels regularly and for a longer period. You might have experienced foot pain some and other day.
  • This pain is caused because our body weight is shifted forward. Putting strain on the toes and ball of the foot. There is a generation of the electric signal from high pressure. Which travels from the foot to the spinal cord thereby to the brain. Resulting in the sensation of foot pain.

What complications can occur after prolong use of heels?

  1. It can disturb the growth of toe nail.
  2. It can also damage the joint of a big toe.
  3. Ankle injury can manifest.
  4. Might cause pinched nerve.
  5. Strain in the achilles tendon.
  6. Increase the risk of plantar fasciitis(inflammation of plantar fascia which is a thick band of tissue running across the foot).

Are there any suggestions how one can use heels but still protect their foot?

MBH/PS