As low heels become high stilettos, the risk of long-term damage grows

Women tend to sacrifice comfort for fashion, but their choice of footwear can cause long term damage to the body, a new study suggests. High heels are worn, the study found, place additional pressure on the woman’s lap, increasing the risk for the joints, and osteoarthritis. As low heels, high heels, the risks to economic growth. “Everyone knows that high heels are bad for you,” he said. Danielle Barkema, biomechanist new study at Iowa State University in Ames. “Wearing high heels even put people at even greater risk of developing osteoarthritis of the knee later in life can get to the point where contact with bone on bone and knee joint in order.” Compared with walking barefoot, previous studies have shown wear heels to add compression on the inside of the knee are women. In efforts to expand Barkema and his colleague over flat shoes with a 2-inch heels and a 3.5-inch heels. Under laboratory conditions, researchers sensors, cameras and other equipment used to measure the strength and the shock wave in the bone of women aged 18 to 40 years if they work in any type of shoe. Women held a series of tests carried out on their own selected speed or at a specified fixed rate. The goal was to get the natural tendency of women to go slowly in the heel, and his influence can have on the physical liabilities and run style. One of the results, the study showed that the ratio of women to wear heels changed, causing them to lean into the ankle and destabilized their ankles. There were significantly more load on the inner knee, even more in high heels