”You” better not wear high heels!
Of course, higher than two and a half inches of high heels, no one should wear, but some people should not wear high heels more than others.
Immature, especially girls under sixteen years old: under sixteen years old bones are not yet mature, bones are not closed, high heels will affect the development.
Older people should not: older people have degenerated joints and fat on the soles of the feet, the shock absorption ability is significantly weakened, and the balance ability is not as good as before, wearing high heels will not only bring foot disease, but also increase the risk of falling.
Pregnant women should not: due to the increase in weight during pregnancy, which increases the burden on the feet, wearing high heels will also increase the risk of falling. By the same token, obese people should not wear high heels.
Those who have foot diseases should not: If you have bunions, flat feet and other foot disorders, or suffer from arthritis, knee surgery, or habitual ankle sprains are not suitable for wearing high heels.
Diabetic patients should not: diabetic patients with poor peripheral vascular circulation, wearing high heels will inevitably add insult to injury, wearing for a long time, if the foot wears a rupture, serious people will evolve into diabetic foot.
How to heal the “cost of beauty”?
Hot compress beauty health care method, is one of the secret recipes invented by the Empress Dowager Cixi herself, is also her most enjoyable eternal youthfulness of the magic formula. At that time, the palace maids called wash face, to be precise, is the use of hot air to vacate the face, which is the modern beauty of the so-called hot compress.
With a special silver basin, filled with hot water sprinkled with spices, and then a delicate soft cotton towel, soaked in hot water, according to the texture of the skin, carefully compress, feel like sliding on a fine soft satin.
Years and years of hot compresses, face basically no wrinkles, and always be able to maintain a bright and smooth, white and beautiful, rich in luster.
Cixi more will be hot compress the wonderful method applied to both hands and feet. Every morning, the court lady who served water, hands carrying a silver basin, the basin was filled with steaming hot water. Maids with hot hand towels first wrapped up the Queen Mother’s hands and feet, put in the silver basin of hot water soaking, and so the hot water becomes warm and cool, and then change the hot water, soak again, so change the water three times, the joints of the hands and feet are soaked warm, look white, tender and soft, to achieve the best results.
The palace maids all know that the Queen Mother’s hands and feet, decades as a day, is in their careful care and maintenance, so delicate, thanks to this whole set of beauty and beauty of the wonderful method, every morning the second tribute, the credit.
The use of cold or hot compresses can ease the pressure on the foot, usually cold compresses are suitable for acute muscle or ligament strains, to stop bleeding and anti-inflammatory effect. Hot compresses are suitable for long-term or chronic injuries, you can use about 60 degrees of hot water to soak your feet every night to promote blood circulation in the feet. Soaking your feet in hot water is the easiest and most feasible way to maintain your feet. When watching TV or working in front of the computer, you can put your feet in a tub of hot water for a time that is not too long, preferably not more than 30 minutes. After soaking feet, toenails are relatively soft, easy to trim and polish, keratin can also be properly removed, it is a fibrous protein, tough and elastic, with the role of protecting the skin from physical damage and resistance to acids and bases and other chemicals, to prevent bacterial invasion. Therefore should not be removed too thoroughly, with a polishing stone to gently polish the excess keratin, and then apply a moisturizing lotion or Vaseline, to the foot to a SPA.
In fact, due to long-term high heels and caused by foot pain, the use of evidence-based treatment method, the use of herbal tonics foot bath, every time you can reap the benefits of better. The soaking formula is often used to invigorate blood stasis, strengthen the tendons and bones, warming the meridians and dispersing cold, benefiting the kidneys and blood vessels, together with the warmth of the external lotion, soothe the tendons and channels to fix pain and remove paralysis. Commonly used soak medicines such as raw rhubarb, stretching tendon grass, penetrating bone grass, wei ling xian, millennium health, chicken blood vine, raw mugwort, lutong, deer artichoke, hook vine, etc.
Small needle knife therapy is effective for foot pain with clear pain points. A few inches of small needle knife, after anesthesia, stabbed deep into the treatment site to the lesion for easy cutting, peeling and other different stimulation, loosening, in order to achieve the purpose of pain relief and dispel the disease. It is particularly effective for achilles pain.
The principles of treatment for acute inflammation of Achilles tendonitis are: rest, ice, compression, elevation, and appropriate application of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. If surgical treatment or correction is required, consult a specialist orthopedic surgeon or foot surgeon. However, steroid injections are not recommended because they may cause rupture of the Achilles tendon. Chronic Achilles tendonitis that has not been treated with general therapy can be treated surgically, and if there is a heel spur, it can be removed as well.
For plantar fasciitis, soft insoles can be used to reduce the burden on the ankle, to strengthen the gastrocnemius muscle by stretching the plantar fascia, and to give non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Patients with persistent attacks are advised to wear a splint at night to maintain dorsiflexion of the ankle and extension of the thumb. Surgery may be considered if there is significant gastrocnemius atrophy and deformity. If there is a fixed pressure point, a small needle can be used to release the pain.
Callus, corns and plantar warts: the focus is on identifying the cause and reducing the pressure on the foot. You can usually rub some salicylic acid ointment on the affected area to soften the keratin and then trim it. Plantar warts can be treated with cryotherapy, laser treatment or scraping.
Asymptomatic flat feet do not require special treatment and can be treated with special insoles and shoes designed to strengthen the arch; those with symptoms should use a flexable arch support to strengthen the arch.
Metatarsal pain: Treatment is aimed at relieving the excessive pressure on the metatarsal area, usually by wearing wide toe shoes or placing insoles at the proximal end of the metatarsal area.
Hallux valgus: often combined with bunion bursitis. The treatment is mainly conservative and surgical. Conservative treatment is relatively simple, but the effect is not very complete. Elective surgery can usually completely resolve the bunion deformity. Nowadays, bunion surgery has been improved from the previous large incision surgery to small incision osteotomy manipulation, and the postoperative patient trauma is minimal and the results are satisfactory.
Epilogue: The history of foot-binding for women in feudal China is “long”, spanning nearly a thousand years according to historical records, and the foot-binding cloth seems to be a “Chinese characteristic”, a unique Chinese impression symbol in the Western perspective. High heels are a foreign object, but today, as a “fruit” of cross-cultural exchange, they are favored by both Chinese and Western women. At first glance, foot wraps and high heels may seem unrelated, but in fact, they are essentially the same. While choosing beauty, you may want to pay more attention to the health risks behind the beauty, wear confidence, wear beauty, wear health. May we all have healthy feet and walk the world. With healthy feet out of a beautiful life.