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Most women do not know that over 74 percent of all people will at some point develop foot problems. Unfortunately most of this percentage are women. Commonly women begin to suffer with foot problems as they enter peri-menopause. This is a time when the structure of the body begins to change. The joints begin to stiffen and the bones begin to show their age. This means that the feet will notice these changes more rapidly because they are an extremity receiving less circulation and because they are stuck in shoes for so many hours daily.
Women tend to wear various levels of heels throughout their younger lives. The feet are held in shoes that often narrow in the toes. With enough years in these fashionable shoes, the toes will begin to take the form of the shoes worn the most. This means that by the time you reach peri-menopause and beyond the feet have been formed to the shoes most often worn. Because women do not think about the need to get their shoes out of their feet, the feet slowly but surely become stuck and no longer have their full function. They actually begin to calcify to the form of shoes. The little toes narrow in and so do the big toes. The metatarsal bones which are the long bones narrow in too, making it difficult for the muscles to reach the toes where they end cutting off toe function. The toes are actually meant to help the feet thrust forward. Being stuck in shoes they actually stop doing their function. The restrictions placed on the feet over all these years finally begin to create the discomfort that so many women feel.