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December 07, 2003
Another Reason To Be Glad You're A Man
To quote one of the Ugly Step-Sisters, "Ughh!! I'll make it fit!"
- ...Sheree Reese went to her doctor and said that she would do almost anything to wear stilettos again. ...Dr. Reese, a 60-year-old professor of speech pathology at Kean University in Union, N.J., had been forced to give up wearing her collection of high-end, high-heeled shoes because they caused searing pain.
So Dr. Reese, like a growing number of American women, put her foot under the knife. The objective was to remove a bunion, a swelling of the big-toe joint, but the results were disastrous. "The pain spread to my other toes and never went away," she said.
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A 1991 study found that almost 90 percent of women routinely wear shoes that are one to two sizes too narrow. A 1993 study found that women have more than 80 percent of all foot surgeries, primarily because their shoes are too tight.
Narrow shoes can cause the big toe to bend outward, permanently changing the shape of the bone and causing a bunion, or swollen big-toe joint. Women have more than 94 percent of bunion surgeries, the 1993 study found. By scrunching up the smaller toes, fashionable shoes can also cause or worsen claw or hammer toes, a condition in which the smaller toes are permanently bent downward. Painful and unsightly corns or calluses often form on the tops of such toes.
Posted by crandal at December 7, 2003 10:02 PM