Killer High Heels Look Great But Can Wreck Your Plus Size Body

One thing men and women around the world agree on, is that women look great in high heels. There is something about a 4 inch heel which can make even the plainest looking legs appear sexy and gorgeous as if by magic, and combined with the fashionable plus size clothes available from ladies plus size shops you can look incredible! While you may enjoy the way you look in them, you no doubt find the feeling you get from wearing them for more than the time it takes to fall in love with them, is a pain in the...well everywhere. The unnatural angle at which your body is forced to adopt when walking causes your body's natural dynamics to be thrown into confusion, placing a lot of pressure on the ball of your foot and causing increased pressure everywhere else. Here are just some of the serious problems wearing high heels can cause.

Hammer Toes

These nasty sounding afflictions are caused by squeezing toes into the end of those glamorous shoes for a long period of time. The pressure of your body being forced towards the end of your foot by your altered walking angle means your toes can get crammed into a hammer shape and eventually get stuck this way. The results can leave you permanently disfigured and in need of surgery to fix it.

Bunions

Badly fitting shoes can cause an unsightly bony swelling on inside edge of your foot. The swelling pushes your big toe out towards your other toes, the bump can be very painful and inflamed and your feet are left misshapen and in need of surgery to correct.

Leg Tendon Damage

When you wear high heels for an extended period of time, your Achilles tendon, running up the back of your leg from your heel will be forced to shorten is it is not properly stretched to its proper length. This can cause it to permanently shrink so that when you do eventually where flat heels it is forced to stretch again. This can be very painful and cause tendonitis. To fix, try flat shoes and yoga.

Knee Pain

With the weight of your body forced forwards onto the front of your foot, there is the knock on effect of added pressure on your knees. Over a period of time this can lead to arthritis, which is a painful degenerative joint disorder.

So next time you think about wearing those killer high heels, think again, or at least be prepare for the consequences especially is you wear plus sized clothes and shoes.