How to Deal With Heel Pain When You’re Wearing High Heels
If you have pain in your feet when you wear high heels, here are four ideas to help you choose and wear more comfortable heels.
1) Choose a lower heel so that you can:
Reduce the amount of pressure on your ball of foot.
Reduce the amount of pressure your toes and toenails are under.
Stability and alignment should be improved.
To improve weight distribution, reduce the angle between the ball of your foot and your heel.
How to Deal with Heel Pain When You’re Wearing High Heels
2) Select a shoe with a larger toe box, such as a round or square toe, to:
Toe compression should be avoided.
Avoid rubbing your toenails against your shoe.
How to Deal with Heel Pain When You’re Wearing High Heels
3) Reduce the amount of time you spend in heels to:
Avoid being excessively stiff and uncomfortable in your leg muscles.
Reduce the possibility of toe and toenail injuries.
Reduce the amount of stress on your back, hips, and knees.
How to Deal with Heel Pain When You’re Wearing High Heels
4) To improve stability, choose shoes with a thicker heel.
How to Deal with Heel Pain When You’re Wearing High Heels
For specific concerns caused or exacerbated by wearing high heels, here are some useful treatment and prevention tips:
Pain in the ball of the foot on a daily basis:
Use cushioning pads, such as IDEASTEP Foot Cushions for High Heels, to relieve strain on the balls of your feet.
So that less weight is shifted to the balls of your feet, choose shoes with a lower heel.
Heel ache:
IDEASTEP Invisible Cushioning Insoles for High Heels (heels 2” and more) are a shoe insert that absorbs shock and provides extra cushioning.
To relieve tightness and soreness, massage and stretch your feet and calves.
Toenail encrustation:
While ingrown toenails are healing, wear open-toed shoes with lots of room in the toe box.
Use IDEASTEP Ingrown Toenail Pain Reliever, which contains both a pain reliever and a protective cushion.
Wearing high heels that are excessively small or tight is not a good idea.
To relieve pressure on painful bunions and reduce shoe friction, try IDEASTEP Bunion Cushions with Duragel® Technology.