Favorite Russians summer shoes hit the lists of dangerous
Summer sandals with flat soles, which in Russia are often called slates, turned out to be footwear hazardous to women's health. This conclusion was made by specialists at the Wake Forest Medical Center in North Carolina.
They conducted a large-scale study and found out that in shales, a person has to bend his toes to keep slippers on his foot, to prevent it from falling.
This leads to gait changes and a displacement of the fulcrum.
If you often wear such shoes, experts say, planar fasciitis may develop, accompanied by severe pain in the heels and a gradual curvature of the spine.
But you should not refuse sandals if they are your favorite shoes. You just need to choose them correctly.
To avoid problems with the health of the musculoskeletal system, experts advise buying models that, when walking, can bend in the same place as the foot.
Slates need to be taken with a soft and flexible sole.
According to the researchers, don’t wear such shoes, if you have to spend all day on your feet, moving a lot, and also do not drive a car in them, because one of a pair of shoes can easily get stuck between the pedals of a car.
A good alternative could be this summer. platform sandals, such a fashion hails from the 90s, but this season it is very relevant.
Too high a platform can also pose a threat to health, and therefore it is better to choose platforms whose height does not exceed 3 centimeters.
