Skirted-UK

Here we go again,

Experts warn of high-heel danger

High heels can cause serious ankle injuries
Women are paying the price for fashion in the form of broken bones and sprained ankles, a doctor has warned

see this link, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5235630.stm

Nigel

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'Alcohol and heels are a bad mix'


Damn, hic.

I saw this on telly this morning, but had a 'summer cold' and thought I was dreaming.

the woman news reader with the stupid style glasses does not do heels, I have even seen her wearing trainers under the desk.

huh, what does she know,

I also watched Lazy town today, the baddy, robby rotten, wore heels and struggled with them, he then shouted out tht the preson who invented high heels, must have been.............................................................................. short.

no kidding!

great day one way and another for heels.

Nigel

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balacau

Stilletos can cause serious injury to other people too, that has happened to me. I got my foot stood on by a woman wearing a pair of high heel shoes.

The bruise lasted a long time and it wasnt too much of a nice experience lol. Luckily she was lightly built!!

But yeh it doesnt take a rocket scientist to imagine what kind of damage you can do if you lose your balance while in high heels :(

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micha

Hmmh, since decades I have read publications and warnings of pompous doctors. Concerning the wearing of high heels, Dr. Rupert Evans has naturally no own experience. Nevertheless he is claiming to be an expert. His advice to limit the heels height to 4 cm seems to me ridiculous. For me that are grandmother shoes!

From my own experience platform shoes might be dangerous, especially if I've drunken too much. But I have never sprained a foot in a sober state on 3 or 4'' high heels. Even drunken with stiletto heels on the worst pavement it was never a problem. Its simply a question of experience and of training :drinking:

Every year hundreds of hikers are dieing in the Alps. I'm pondering also since decades how they managed their suicide successfully. The big majority of them wasn't wearing high heels on a glacier But is this fact an argument to warn against mountain tours?

Shafted

I have had a much harder time walking across pebble strewn parking lots with a chunky heel than a stiletto. If you step on a pebble with a stiletto heel its already centered under your heel, so you can easily walk through it. But those chunky heels on the same surface I really have to watch my step, as I have put my ankle right over sideways when my heel hits a pebble off center. Those things are dangerous. Fortunatly I have very strong flexable ankles, and as a result no injury. So for me, the stiletto is safer.

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hoverfly

I am willing to bet it's a risk most young women are willing to take to get the selvs laid!!

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Shafted

I'm willing to bet that a lot of the women he treated didn't wear high heels on a regular basis either.

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micha

I join to your bet! How many girls are wearing in summer always flip flops but at saturday night they like to pull on high heels for the dance floor ...

HeelD

Badly fitting shoes is the real problem here. Many girls squeeze their feett into little toe boxes of stilletto heels thus creating problems like bunions in the future (look at Victoria Beckhams feet as an example). Many girls will wear ill-fitting shoes (even clothes) to appear "trendy". An ill-fitting shoe is hard to walk in - I speak from experience (you end up twisting your ankle a lot more). A stilletto shoe that fits well will cause far less foot problems in the future.

Walking in high heels all the time can't be good for the feet, as is walking in 100% flat shoes all the time. I think a variation in heel height is the best way to approach it. (Why I own shoes of various heights).

All things in moderation.

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Phoenix

BEWARE of steps in heels. Wow, talk about an adventure. I admire women who can navigate steps in heels.