This year the height of the heels on shoes and boots are probably higher than they have been any other year and the question is whether this sort of foot wear can, in the long term, injure your health, primarily you back and your foot.
Well apparently yet it can and it does. Three out of every four women who constantly wear high heels have some sort of foot problem or indeed a problem in their back or their knees.
You have to remember that any heel over two inches high is going to affect the way you walk and change the way you balance yourself. You are going to be placing much more weight than is usual or good for you just on the ball of your feet and this in turn will eventually lead to blisters, corns or calluses. Because you are almost tilting forward while you walk in heels there is going to be much more pressure on your toes which will be pushed up against the toe of the shoe. There is also the danger that on such a high heel you could fall and sprain an ankle or simply hurt yourself during the fall. Continue reading »