tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post5929810532290346622..comments2024-03-29T11:10:24.423-04:00Comments on Femulate: High Heels are Good for You!Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-27700599913567125622016-08-08T12:18:18.148-04:002016-08-08T12:18:18.148-04:00I agree with Pat that low 2-3 inch heels helps wit...I agree with Pat that low 2-3 inch heels helps with ones back, I’ve aired my experience and the pros and cons on this in one of my posts (ObserVation: Heels for Health..). <br />Thanks Jeanie, well put. <br />I would take it that these doctors would also say that the young Chinese girls forced to bind their feet in the 10th/11th century to form “lotus feet” was also beneficial to their health. Abigale's Airingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10969935988651312500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-19109551457699162622016-08-06T16:45:33.092-04:002016-08-06T16:45:33.092-04:00For me wearing heels tends to help with back pain....For me wearing heels tends to help with back pain. Raising my heel a few inches tends to realign my spine. It creates a bend in my knees and changes the curvature of my lower back in a way that takes pressure and stress off my low back leading to my feeling better.<br />PatPat Scaleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00148601231866277374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-84866432176175515452016-08-05T14:55:55.984-04:002016-08-05T14:55:55.984-04:00Highs...PASS, flats for me.Highs...PASS, flats for me.Robbinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14640487820243200828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-60836962366316862112016-08-05T11:50:18.878-04:002016-08-05T11:50:18.878-04:00I'm getting ready for a consultation with an M...I'm getting ready for a consultation with an MD about a groin hernia (possibly double). In the meantime, wearing a panty girdle and heels has lessoned the discomfort in the lower region when compared with not wearing them. Go figure. <br />JoanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-14525089034953066522016-08-04T17:45:06.849-04:002016-08-04T17:45:06.849-04:00Eggs are bad for you -- now they're GOOD for y...Eggs are bad for you -- now they're GOOD for you. Caffeine is bad for you -- then it's GOOD for you. I prefer to have my eggs and coffee for breakfast, then slip into my stilettos and take on the day!Julie M Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11335088569492502222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-20862011067622844932016-08-04T16:29:16.155-04:002016-08-04T16:29:16.155-04:00Sorry Stana, but the British doctor must have been...Sorry Stana, but the British doctor must have been on crack. We did computerized gait weight bearing/pressure studies that showed tremendously high forefoot pressures that were detrimental to the plantar forefoot fat pad, crowding of the metatarsal heads resulting in neuromas and other metatarsal head pathologies (metatarsalgia) and digital deformities. Heel pressures were increased but only as the foot rocks back on the heel after tremendous forefoot contact pressures. In normal gait, the heel contacts first which is altered in wearing high heels. In my practice everyday I found lesions associated with high heel wear. Also to keep them on the feet, they are frequently too tight in the forefoot region since that is where most of the holding power is because the waist of the shoe is totally open without a vamp which either incites pathology or aggrivates existing pathology. I do agree that they don't generally cause shortening of the achilles tendon and calf muscle and I do agree that they do cause a shift in the center of gravity. But it does go a little far to suggest that they are all beneficial or good for you. Physique and psyche OK but the medical detriments unfortunately outweigh the medical benefits by far. Wear them if you like them since there is no law to say one can't. But to be totally truthful, with the good is the bad. The benefit would largely psychological but with not as much medical benefit as the Brit seems to suggest. I doubt if the report was in a peer reviewed journal as well. So sorry from a medical profession on this side of the pond. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078428309977169175noreply@blogger.com