Relationship between high heels and X-leg and O-leg

High heels can improve the figure and make the legs look longer, which is often standard for many women in formal occasions. Although high-heeled shoes are good, they are not comfortable enough, which will often damage the health of toe joints, ankles and legs, cause motor dysfunction, and may even pay a heavy and permanent price.

We have noticed that many people associate high heels with the problems of X-legs and O-legs. Is there any basis for this concern?

High heels make ankle joint in plantar flexion state for a long time.

Wearing high heels has an inevitable disadvantage: the ankle joint is in a plantar flexion position (toe state) for a long time, which makes the muscles, achilles tendon and plantar fascia at the back of the calf in a relatively tight state. This state will not cause direct motor dysfunction, but when we wear slippers at home or wear flat shoes when hiking, the tight muscles, achilles tendon and plantar fascia will be unbearable, forcing the body to take compensation or functional limitation.

The relationship between high heels and pronation, figure eight and high arch.

When we are used to wearing high heels, but we have to wear slippers, flat shoes or even bare feet on some occasions, our feet will seek compensation for the lack of ankle dorsiflexion (the tension of muscles and ligaments behind the calf is the main reason for the lack of ankle dorsiflexion), and the related compensation phenomena mainly include foot pronation and external figure eight. If the Achilles tendon and plantar fascia are too tight, and the tibialis anterior, posterior tibial muscle and peroneal longus muscle are too weak, it will also cause problems such as high arch and plantar fasciitis.

High heels may indirectly cause the knees to buckle and move outward.

It must be emphasized that the pronation of the foot is one of the most common causes of knee adduction, and there is a causal relationship between knee adduction and X-leg. The external figure of eight is closely related to the O-leg problem. In other words, if you wear high heels for a long time but don't pay attention to the stretching of the muscles at the back of the calf and the training of ankle dorsiflexion strength, it may lead to a series of compensatory phenomena and motor dysfunction such as foot varus, valgus and high arch. In the long run, it will indirectly lead to problems such as X-leg, O-leg and X-leg.

Moreover, problems such as pronation, figure-eight, knee internal buckle, out-of-knee displacement and high arch often lead to complex motor function syndrome, and many problems of knee, hip and spine may be related to these syndromes, which have an immeasurable impact on motor function and body posture.

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