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People should stop wearing high heels in general. For as long as anyone can remember, they have been a ubiquitous fashion accessory particularly for women, despite the fact that they force the foot and body mechanics into highly inefficient and uncomfortable positions. Many women working in professional careers wear this type of footwear as their primary daily driver. For many of these people, the mechanical damage to the body is both unavoidable and obvious. Gait abnormalities, bunions, foot pain, pelvic and low back problems and more. All for the sake of adhering to a fashion norm that offers no functional benefit whatsoever.
There are all kinds of modern and trendy science fads claiming things like barefoot shoes or open sandals or even extreme minimalist footwear huarache sandals can cure everything from foot pain to cancer. Whilst many of these claims are simply ridiculous or at least, largely backed by studies conducted by companies wanting to sell you shoes; high heels on the other hand feature no such uncertainty regarding the harm that they cause. Forcing a person to walk around all day on tiptoe with their foot crammed into a shoe that forces their toes into a tiny point and causes them to bear all their weight on the ball of their foot is indisputably an unhealthy practice, especially when done frequently. Furthermore the mechanical instability experienced by anyone wearing these shoes, regardless of their experience and skill level, statistically predisposes them to a much higher likelihood of significant injury from tripping and falls. My experience in the medical community has never once led me to a conversation with a PT, OT, MD, DO or any other medical professional of merit who does not agree that this type of footwear is fundamentally harmful. A concession they often make while sheepishly looking down at their own feet, crammed into the very same footwear.
Finally, if beauty is the goal, once again, with with remarkable consistency, it is clear that chronic use of these shoes tends to result in anatomical changes to the feet that are almost universally perceived as unattractive such as bunions, hammer toes, severe callouses and permanently crooked joint alignment. A strange practice, to make your feet irreparably uglier in an attempt to make them more beautiful, when they can only retain this "beauty" while crammed into an uncomfortable vessel that both impairs your movement and predisposes you to chronic injury.
I get that high heeled shoes are often seen as professional, or highly sophisticated statements of fashion, And of course everyone should be allowed to and do whatever they like. It's your body, and your life, do what you like with it. However, the ubiquity with which these types of footwear have now permeated our society for so long, has largely numbed us to the actual consequences of wearing them, and, it has likewise conditioned us to find them both attractive and a standard expectation of fashion in many contexts. A woman unable to walk in heels will struggle to measure up fashion-wise in many professional circles. I am not advocating that we get rid of them entirely, but their ubiquity as a pinnacle and standard of fashion, professionalism and femininity really should go the way of the dodo.
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There are all kinds of modern and trendy science fads claiming things like barefoot shoes or open sandals or even extreme minimalist footwear huarache sandals can cure everything from foot pain to cancer. Whilst many of these claims are simply ridiculous or at least, largely backed by studies conducted by companies wanting to sell you shoes; high heels on the other hand feature no such uncertainty regarding the harm that they cause. Forcing a person to walk around all day on tiptoe with their foot crammed into a shoe that forces their toes into a tiny point and causes them to bear all their weight on the ball of their foot is indisputably an unhealthy practice, especially when done frequently. Furthermore the mechanical instability experienced by anyone wearing these shoes, regardless of their experience and skill level, statistically predisposes them to a much higher likelihood of significant injury from tripping and falls. My experience in the medical community has never once led me to a conversation with a PT, OT, MD, DO or any other medical professional of merit who does not agree that this type of footwear is fundamentally harmful. A concession they often make while sheepishly looking down at their own feet, crammed into the very same footwear.
Finally, if beauty is the goal, once again, with with remarkable consistency, it is clear that chronic use of these shoes tends to result in anatomical changes to the feet that are almost universally perceived as unattractive such as bunions, hammer toes, severe callouses and permanently crooked joint alignment. A strange practice, to make your feet irreparably uglier in an attempt to make them more beautiful, when they can only retain this "beauty" while crammed into an uncomfortable vessel that both impairs your movement and predisposes you to chronic injury.
I get that high heeled shoes are often seen as professional, or highly sophisticated statements of fashion, And of course everyone should be allowed to and do whatever they like. It's your body, and your life, do what you like with it. However, the ubiquity with which these types of footwear have now permeated our society for so long, has largely numbed us to the actual consequences of wearing them, and, it has likewise conditioned us to find them both attractive and a standard expectation of fashion in many contexts. A woman unable to walk in heels will struggle to measure up fashion-wise in many professional circles. I am not advocating that we get rid of them entirely, but their ubiquity as a pinnacle and standard of fashion, professionalism and femininity really should go the way of the dodo.
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