The image we have of high heels in life is often associated with modern women. High heels can accentuate the beauty of a woman’s curves. Wearing high heels, the body’s center of gravity will shift forward, and the upper body must lean back to maintain the balance of the body posture. In this way, wearing high heels will make a person’s chest lifted, the state is full, and the legs look slender. High heels are popular among women and high heels do look part of the beautiful street scene. But high heels change the center of gravity of the human body after all, and while we appreciate its beauty, we also suffer in silence from the pain it brings. High heels due to the heel weight-bearing surface is relatively small, walking calf muscles to consume a lot of energy to maintain the balance and stability of the ankle joint, to avoid ankle sprain. High heels will cause fatigue in the lower limbs after wearing them for a long time, and fatigue will increase the damage to the ankle joint. Wearing high heels will often ankle sprains is a very common experience for women. High heels will carry more weight on the forefoot because of the padded heel. Most women who wear high heels for a long time have such feelings, is a day of high heels wear down the forefoot particularly painful, the forefoot over time will produce calluses, and very painful, toes also easy to produce corns to. High heels are usually the same as pointed leather shoes, the forefoot area is more pointed, five toes are often squeezed together. The following figure is a set of X-rays, the left is barefoot X-rays, the right is wearing a pointed high heels X-rays. From the X-ray film we found that the high heels will be tightly squeezed together, so that the toes are in a deformed state. Since wearing high heels puts more weight on the forefoot and toes, the tired and deformed toes will bear more weight than they can bear. The most common of the resulting joint deformities is the bunion. More severe bunions, like the one shown in the picture, where the five toes are squeezed together, are very common in middle-aged and older women. When a bunion is formed, in addition to the deformity, the patient often suffers from a variety of ailments, including big toe pain, forefoot pain, corns, painful calluses, etc. The patient is often unable to buy shoes to wear, let alone wear the more beautiful shoes she wants to wear. Patients with a long course of the disease may even develop lesions of the knee and lumbar spine. At this time, the only solution to the bunion deformity is to wear special shoes, braces, or even surgery. It was found that in the 1950s, fishermen women in the southeast coastal villages rarely wore shoes and almost no one suffered from foot deformities such as bunions. In recent decades, as their lives have improved, their offspring have begun to wear shoes, often with high heels and pointed toes, and the prevalence of bunions has begun to appear and is gradually approaching that of the urban population. It is now recognized in academic circles that wearing inappropriate shoes is the main cause of bunions and other foot and ankle disorders. We really have a love-hate relationship with high heels. Women who wear high heels are beautiful, but they are suffering from pain, which cannot be considered a modern version of “foot-binding”. Wearing high heels should master a degree. Some women are not suitable to wear high heels. For example, like a patient with a collapsed transverse arch. Usually wear flat heels on the center of the forefoot calluses are not suitable to wear high heels. Choosing the right high heels is important, from a health perspective, the heel of the high heels should have sufficient ground area to increase ankle stability. The toe area of the shoe should have a certain width. The time spent wearing high heels must be as little as possible. If you participate in more athletic activities when trying not to wear high heels. A day of high heels to wear down, back home to quickly change shoes, must be more active activities to toe, to do a gymnastics to the toe. In short, for the sake of beauty, women can wear high heels, but for the sake of health, wear high heels as little as possible. What should you do if you are at high risk for bunions or have already suffered from bunions? The first thing to do is to wear fewer high heels and more loose fitting shoes. If necessary, try using a small bunion brace. Walk barefoot on the sand more often and consciously grasp the sand on the ground with your toes while walking. Walking barefoot on the sand can exercise the intrinsic muscles of the foot, enhance the balance of the foot, and is a very good means of foot massage. Pebble paths are not suitable for everyone, as many people have thin plantar flesh pads and are prone to painful plantar injuries. A bunion that is already set in shape can only be treated by surgical orthopedic treatment. Bunions may seem like a minor disease, but there are nearly 100 surgical orthopedic methods, which indicates the complexity of bunion orthopedics. Different orthopedic methods should be used for different pathological stages. The purpose of surgery is to correct the deformity and resolve the pain, and different patients often have different requirements. The other thing is that the choice of surgical treatment should be made by seeking an experienced surgeon.