REVEALED: WHAT STILETTOS/HIGH HEELS DO TO YOUR FEET

This is a Daily Mail report. I find it very revealing Read on.

*Stilettos push and twists bones out of line, often causing permanent damage*

‘With high heels, the toes are squashed inside the shoe. The more stiletto-shaped they are, the worse it is. The toes not only get squashed, but they become clawed too.’

Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Andy Goldberg, a foot and ankle specialist has revealed that all the body weight gets forced to the front of the feet, causing unsightly clawed toes that can become arthritic. Wearing stilettos pushes and twists bones out of line, resulting in knobbly bunions and other painful conditions. The picture above was taken with a new £200,000 scanner at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, North London.

Mr Goldberg said that the base of the big toe becomes ‘deviated outwards’, forming a  bunion, while the scanner also shows how these bones can become  ‘rotated and dropped’.

Pea-shaped bones under the base of the big toe – called sesamoids – get dislodged by the immense pressures put on them.

Mr Goldberg added: ‘There’s nothing wrong with being in this high heel position temporarily – it forms a part of your normal stride. And if you wear heels for an hour or two at an evening party, it’s not a problem.

‘But if you wear them for eight hours a day for years on end, you  will develop problems.’

It wasn’t just middle-aged women who suffered, he said. ‘It’s not uncommon for me to see teenage girls in my clinic. They are usually accompanied by their mothers, who tell them, “Look, the doctor says you should be wearing sensible shoes!” But I try not to get involved with family politics too much.’

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