TRADING HEELS FOR BALLERINA FLATS IS WRONG MOVE
posted: Oct. 30, 2019.
After being inundated with information about how bad stilettos are for your feet, it makes sense that you’ve resorted to their opposite: a flat, paper-thin shoe you can wear during your commute, then store in your bag or toss under a desk. But those ballet flats might be doing more damage than you realize. The barely-there soles offer little shock absorption, hence causing heel pain from the repetitive stress, says Dr. Michael Stempel, chief of podiatry at the GW Medical Faculty Associates.
Drs. Michael Stempel and Eleanor Wilson |
And those flats that you bend in half to fit in your clutch? Their flexibility means they offer almost no support. The foot then moves more and the tendons have to work harder to stabilize it, leading to tendinitis, says Dr. Eleanor Wilson, a local podiatrist with Kaiser Permanente.
Source: Caroline Cunningham, The Washingtonian
Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News.