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High heels lifestyle forums: Why sensible shoes do more harm than stilettos
Forums > High heels lifestyle forums > Why sensible shoes do more harm than stilettos (3 messages)
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lindaannbound Site Assistant
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Thu, Jun 09, 2011 15:44:20
Why sensible shoes do more harm than stilettos |
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For years, the medical profession has been telling women they are putting their health at risk by tottering along on stiletto heels.
Now - to the delight of lovers of high fashion - the boot would appear to be firmly on the other foot.
A study has found that, contrary to previous advice, sensible court shoes could actually cause more harm than skinny stilettos.
Skinny heels may be kinder to the knees than wider-heeled shoes, which are traditionally chosen for comfort.
Sophisticated tests show women walking in stiletto heels may be less likely to develop the problems that can lead to osteoarthritis.
Experts have long believed that a tendency to wear different footwear explains the marked difference between the sexes when it comes to osteoarthritis of the knee.
Twice as many women as men suffer from the painful condition, which can lead to replacement surgery in later life.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School, in the U.S., analyzed 20 women around the age of 34 as they walked barefoot, in wide-heeled shoes and in stilettos. They measured the pressures placed on the knee joints by the different types of shoes --which both had heels two-and-three-quarter inches high.
The stilettos had a base just half an inch wide, while the court shoes were one-and three-quarter inches wide.
Both types of shoes increased a specific knee-joint pressure called the varus torque, according to a report in The Lancet today.
But the wide-heeled shoes increased pressure by 26 per cent from the normal rate when standing, compared to a 22 per cent increase in pressure when women walked in the stilettos. Walking in the wide-heeled shoes caused 30 per cent more pressure than walking barefoot.
Researchers said women tended to choose court shoes for everyday wear largely because they thought they were better for them. They generally wore them for longer for the same reason.
Dr Casey Kerrigan, of Harvard's department of physical medicine and rehabilitation, said: 'We've shown that wide-heeled, women's dress shoes cause the same, if not greater, alterations in knee torques as narrow-heeled shoes.'
Footnotes:
Egyptian butchers in pre-Christian times wore heels to raise their feet above the blood of the animals they killed.
In 16th century Britain, if a bride wore artificially high heels her husband was entitled to an annulment.
Frenchman Roger Vivier is credited with putting the stiletto heel on the catwalk in the 1950s.
Soon afterwards, the Empress of Iran ordered 100 pairs a year.
A true stiletto heel is 3 1/2in or higher.
Stiletto comes from the Italian for dagger.
Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita (1960) and Frank Sinatra in High Society (1956) both drank champagne from a stiletto.
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AZ-Celt63 Premium Member
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Thu, Sep 27, 2012 23:00:26
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very interesting.. as an adendum, my girlfriend wears heels to work Monday thru Friday, always over 4.5". One day, she got a pedi during lunch and didn't want to ruin it with her 5" closed toe pumps, so she wore her flip flops back to the office. Sure enough, she rolled her ankle in a landscaping area before she even reached the office door. No surgery required, but she did have to use crutches and wear an air cast for 4 weeks. She wore heels to the follow up appointments like a good girl tho!!
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stuthestud Site Assistant
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Mon, Oct 01, 2012 06:00:10
4.5 inches generates yards of hard cocks.. |
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hhhhmmmm. oh my sexy office lady, she wears 4.5 inches of sexy hotshoeshot stilettos each Monday through Friday at the office. That made me wonder how many cocks she gets hard at work each and every working day in her office ?? .So I am posting a new office word problem for her to tell me the final answer.
How many inches of cock do her 4.5 inches of sexy slutty strutten stilettos produce each day on average from each man total weekly whom are gazing and viewing her sexy legs and feet in those lovely shoes on average in one week? ANSWER MUST BE TOTALED or Converted into COCK YARDS in USA standard measurements, PLEASE or your wil not be graded ! Tip 36 inches = one US yard.
That might be the equilvalent= of 6-12 inches on average lenght ( X ) Men in office = Cock yards. X ( times) days of week = total Weekly yards of hard stilletto produced cock yards.
For extra credit add any weekend overtime days.
Or a new cock to heel equation to ponder and add to your math word problems. Stick that one in your math book. The Shoe Professor, STU
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