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Using high heels can be elegant and make any woman feel louder, or even sexier. However, the cost can be high - and it is important to understand how to use this footwear can affect her health. In this article, we speak about how the use of high heels can harm your health, with impact on feet, legs and backs, as well as harming your stability, posture and even causing structural changes in your long-term body.

Change in posture, balance and mode of walking

When you use high heels, you are keeping your foot in an extended position, which increases the pressure on the front while stepping on. This takes off your balance, forcing a slope from the bottom of your body, while the top leans backwards, as a counterweight. This occurs almost imperceptibly and undermines the alignment of your body, creating a non-natural posture; And the higher the jump, worse is this change.

According to the orthopedist Luciano Miller, from the Israeli Hospital Albert Einstein, "When pushes the column back, you tighten the column joints, increasing muscle tension that, consequently, brings back pain and lumbar."

In addition, with high heels it is not possible to walk in a natural way. Usually, we stepped with the heel first, going to the part under the fingers and pushing the floor with my fingers. When using high heels, one can not "push the floor" efficiently, which demands a lot of hip and knee muscles.

Arthritis

The joints of our foot until the knee suffer a lot with high heels, especially if you use it very often. Wear of cartilages in the joints can cause arthritis, an inflammatory disease - still incurable - which makes it difficult for movement and causes pain and deformity in the body.

Pain

No one likes to feel pain, but those who use high heels for long periods can not avoid this symptom. Be a pain in the foot, or even in the column, legs and hips, high heels can cause uncomfortable for forcing your body to stay in position and change your walking mode. Diseases and deformities caused by prolonged use of this type of footwear also tend to be very painful.

Tendinitis

As high heel limits the movement and activity of the ankle articulation, it can cause contraction in the Achilles tendon - and therefore, inflammation in this tendon is a common complaint of those who usually spend a lot of time on jumps. In addition, as they increase the calf height, this type of footwear can shorten the muscles of the place, causing them to lose strength when walking or running.

Foot deformities and toes

Tight jumps can cause deformities in the foot or toes: less serious problems initially such as calluses, bubbles and wounds can turn junkies, neuromes of Morton or fractures. The Johonete, for example, is a bone swelling that forms at the base of the toe. He grows up and pushing his finger forward, consequently pressing the others. Morton neuroma occurs when the tissues covering the nerves of the toes are so pressured by the shoe that inflames, causing pain and numbness.

Fascade plantar

Finally, plantar fasciitis is another type of inflammation that can be caused by high heels - this time in the sole arch of the feet. If constantly forced, the tendons and ligaments of this place end up shortening, which causes pain and difficulty walking.

How to use jumps safely

There are those who worry about health, but who does not want to get rid of jumps from time to time. If this is your case, there are some tips to use this type of footwear safely:

• Use them only on special occasions.
• Do physical activities that strengthen your muscles and thus avoid pain.
• If you want or need to shove them during work, carry the shoes in a bag and just put it when you get to the place.
• During the day, remove the jumps to lengthen the calves and massage the feet from time to time.
• Give preference to coarse jumps and avoid those that have a very tight fit.