Why do women suffer more foot problems than men?
The answer to this is simple: Shoes. Someone, a long time ago, decided that women’s feet were a different shape to men’s, and made their shoes accordingly. Most men’s shoes are made to the exact same shape as their feet, whereas women’s shoes almost never much the shape of a female foot. And if you squeeze your foot into such shoes often enough, they will eventually cause pain and even change shape.
Another problem is that many women are wearing shoes that are too short for their feet. At times this is because they feel a longer shoe looks clumsy and less fashionable. At other times it is because they consider their feet to be a certain size, and try to stick to that size regardless of the fit of the shoe.
At Footsmart Podiatry we do not expect patients to wear ugly shoes, but we do have to stress that: if your feet hurt only in certain shoes, the shoes are causing damage to your feet.
