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DO HIGH HEELS HAVE PHYSICAL EFFECTS ON YOUR BODY? Most women will tell you that after wearing high heels for only a short period of time, they start to experience some degree of foot pain.  That is understandable, but, does it have any further affects on the body? The short answer to this is yes.  The foot was designed to act like a shock absorber the feet cushions your body against the insane amount of pounding it receives in a average day.  When you put the foot into a gorgeous pair of high heels, much of your body mass is shifted entirely to the balls of you feet and the delicate bones of the toes.   One study has concluded that by walking in 4" high heels, the pressure transferred to this area of the foot increased the pressure by 30%.  Because of this your natural gate is replaced by a staccato walk, which over a long period of time could cause bone and nerve damage and also blisters and ingrown toenails. Wearing of heels causes you to bend your ankles in a unnatur

There was an interesting experiment that was done by a psychologist by the name of Paul Morris. T he experiment was to test what heels do for a woman's attractiveness.   The reason I found this experiment so interesting is that a lot of women think that men are attracted to women because the woman is already sexy or extremely good looking.  This experiment proves it is not only how the woman looks physically that attracts the male to her.   Now, I am not saying that that fact does not help, but there was other interesting things that were found out in the experiment. What they did is that they had females walking in flats and the same female walk in high heels.  What they needed to do is to take out the factor of attractiveness, weight, age, height, ect. and then they placed glow in the dark markers at the same points on each of the women's bodies.   Then what they did was have each woman walk on a treadmill in complete darkness. The only thing that anybody could ob

The following article is w ritten by Michael J. Musacchio, Jr., M.D. HIGH HEELS AND BACK PAIN - ARE THEY RELATED? A widely held belief is that wearing high heels causes back pain. This thought process has become so widespread that it is simply taken as fact. However, this may not necessarily be true. The theory behind high heels causing back pain relies on the thought that wearing them causes strain in the thighs and hip flexors which forces an increased curve in the spine, and this increased curvature of the spine causes back pain. Having never worn high heels, I cannot say for whether or not this is true; but, from what I’ve read and experienced with my patients, I’m not so certain that this is correct. As a matter of fact, I’ve had several patients with back pain and pinched nerves tell me that specifically wearing high heels has helped relieve their pain significantly. So, when there is controversy and uncertainly, one must turn to the medical literature (and