You’re a contemporary fashionista who dresses to impress. You faithfully don your high heels to conform to business
dress standards, impress your employees,air jordan retro shoes boss, or coworkers, and look fierce, maybe even sexy. You’re aware that
wearing your fashionable heels may result in painful footsteps, but, well, you’re willing to squeeze them on for the sake
of good looks.
In this article, we offer several top tips on how to safeguard your feet and toes from the perils of a contemporary woman’s
urban existence. We discuss a middle path that will allow you to maintain office decorum and retain your femininity yet
spare your digits the devastation commonly wreaked by women’s conventional dress footwear (not to mention the
footwear that will be seen at the upcoming New York Fashion Week). Please proceed with an open mind and an
adventurous heart. The truth will set you (and your toes) free.
Practice Clandestine Foot Health in Your Cube
If you spend a good portion of your day sequestered in your office or cube, you have the perfect opportunity to practice
clandestine natural foot health. Away from the gawking leers of your peers, and under the cover of your designer
bureau, you can let your feet run as wild and free as these true marvels of human anatomy were designed to be.
That’s right. We’re talking about ditching your heels and going barefoot in your office as often as possible (*a collectiv
e gasp is heard throughout the corporate world*). If the idea of baring your feet while on the clock is beyond comprehe
nsion, consider a constructive alternative: Bring a pair of flats or sandals to work and wear them outside of business
meetings or high-powered exec lunches. If you can’t eliminate high heels from your business life, minimizing your
time in them certainly is the next best option.
Consider, too, taking a few minutes for yourself several times each day to perform key stretches at your desk or
console. Chief among these stretches (and especially important for heels-wearing women) is the bunion stretch—a stretch that can help you prevent that much-feared and loathed bunion.
Check out this bunion stretch video in which Dr. Ray McClanahan, inventor of Correct Toes toe spacers, demonstrates
proper bunion stretch technique and explains why this exercise is so important for big toe health. Two other office-friendly foot exercises we recommend include the toe extensor stretch, which relieves ball-of-foot pain, and the plantar
fascia release exercise, which helps massage your plantar fascia (the thick band of tissue that runs from your heel to
your forefoot, on the underside of your foot). Perform the plantar fascia release exercise by rolling the bottom of you
r foot back and forth over a hacky sack, golf ball, and/or other balls of various sizes and firmness.
Stand (or Sit!) Corrected
All fashionistas can benefit, to some degree, from Correct Toes—a revolutionary toe-spacing device that realigns
your toes in their normal anatomical position. Even if you can’t permanently retire your heels, you will undoubtedly
enjoy spreading your toes on a regular basis when sitting at your desk or living your life outside the office. You can
use Correct Toes to help treat or prevent many common foot and ankle ailments, including bunions, hammertoes,
and Achilles tendinitis, among other problems. air jordan shoes Wearing Correct Toes during weight-bearing activity should be done in combination with compatible footwear (i.e., footwear that is widest at the ends of
your toes, not the ball of your foot).
Consider placing metatarsal pads in your non-work shoes to help preserve your foot health. A metatarsal pad—a
small, soft, and unobtrusive pad that sits within your shoe—helps spread your transverse foot arch and stretches
tight toe extensor muscles. It also helps realign your forefoot fat pad to a position that cushions the heads of your
metatarsal bones. Without proper cushioning for your metatarsal heads, and with the excessive stress and pressure
high-heeled shoes place on this region of your foot, you are vulnerable to several common foot problems, especially
interdigital neuroma. Check out this helpful video that demonstrates how to optimally position your metatarsal pads.
Educate the Powers That Be
Your boss or coworkers need to be sympathetic to your situation and support your decision to wear the healthiest
possible footwear for your feet, even if your shoes stand out in the office like a cravat on casual Fridays. If your office
has a dress code in place that requires you to wear foot-deforming shoes, consider making an earnest plea to you
r employers about the necessity of appropriate footwear for long-term foot and lower extremity health. Impress upon
them how much more productive—not to mention pleasant!—you could be if you were allowed to wear comfortable
shoes all day long. If appealing to their hearts doesn’t work, appealing to their wallets might: Adopting foot-healthy
footwear may save your firm, office, or agency big dollars in health care expenses, especially if your foot problem
gets you bounced to a podiatric surgeon.
We recognize that fashion exerts a strong influence on what’s acceptable and what is not, and that office realities
certainly do exist, but there is no harm in becoming an advocate for reasonable footwear in your office, and possibly
much to gain. Nature intended your foot to be widest at the ends of your toes, possess excellent toe splay, and have
strong, sturdy arches. Crooked and mangled toes, bunions, and ingrown toenails do not need to be your destiny,
Fabulous Fashionista, as long as you respect nature’s brilliant design by using tools (such as Correct Toes) and
footwear that allow your foot to function like a bare foot inside your shoe. It’s time to redefine what’s beautiful in feet
and footwear and put conventional office footwear in its rightful place (i.e, something only seldom worn). So, we have
to ask ourselves what’s uglier: A wide toe box shoe with no heel elevation, or crooked toes and a big, throbbing
bunion at the base jordan retro of your big toe?
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