High heels were made famous by Louis XIV of France who started wearing them. The popularity of high heels has been around for over 400 years. In the beginning, it was men who wore high heels. But later women wore high heels more popular. Why do men not wear them and women wear them? Maybe because the muscles supporting the ankle joint are different for men and women, maybe because of the differences in skeletal alignment between men and women, or maybe it’s both.
Women wearing high heels can make the body appear more slender, walking more graceful. From a physiological point of view, the female ankle joint is physiologically turned out, in order to offset the turned out, the heel should be higher than the toe. In this posture, the plantar tendon membrane on the bottom of the foot is tense, pulling the heel bone forward, with the result that the valgus of the ankle is counteracted. Thus, wearing high heels looks unstable, when, in fact, it is stable for the ankle joint. However, when the heel is lifted, the foot is also in a state where it tends to slip forward. Therefore, if you don’t find a way to prevent the foot from sliding forward, wearing high heels still tends to cause the mother exostosis. So a good high heel shoe has a flatter bevel in the heel area to better support the weight. Prevent the foot from sliding forward.
But high heels make the heel elevated, the body weight is transferred more to the forefoot, so that the metatarsophalangeal joint under greater pressure, coupled with the metatarsophalangeal joint is in an overly dorsal position, in the long run, easy to cause metatarsophalangeal joint lesions. High-heeled shoes are also generally narrower in the front, easy to form the forefoot extrusion.
The lightness of the shoe is changed by the increase or decrease of the shoe’s support material. Generally speaking, there is no particular problem with lightness and weight. In daily life, it is better to have lighter shoes, and in hiking, it is better to have heavier shoes. For the elderly, lighter shoes should be worn. In short, the function of the shoe is more important than the lightness or weight of the shoe.