and more people choose slates as summer footwear. Slates are not everyday footwear, they are suitable only for certain places (pool, the beach, rest, the nature).
The The Huffington Post newspaper prepared infographics about advantage and harm of slates:
- Fingers.
Slates stand on feet at the expense of a thong which passes between a big and middle finger. It leads to excessive load of muscles of legs. As the result, inflammation of sinews (the increased risk of their gaps), bursit (inflammation of a circumarticular bag) and formation of molotko-shaped fingers.
- Bones.
To hold slates on a leg, the person strongly strains ankle joints and the arch of foot. Foot loses ability to amortize blow of a sole about the earth. There can be a bone fracture.
- Bacteria.
According to data of the researches TODAY show and University Mai, on house bedroom-slippers over 18,000 bacteria, including very dangerous live (bacteria from excrements and golden staphylococcus)
- Between fingers.
The membrane constantly rubs about skin between a big and middle finger. As a result, the callosity or a fungal infection (mycosis) can be formed. Usually mycosis extends from a nail plate to a sole and on each side feet.
- Anklebones.
When you carry bedroom-slippers, you automatically squeeze toes, creating tension in a zone of anklebones, legs and hips. Fans of slates have chances to ache fastsiity and diseases, belonging to neuralgia.
- Foot pillow.
During walking the pillow of foot is exposed to friction, reddening and formation of callosities.
- Foot arch.
Carrying slates can lead to stretching of a plantar fastion (a part of a leg – from a heel and to a front part of foot), to emergence of the plantar fastsit and a calcaneal spur, heel pains and the arch of foot.
result from heel pain (plantar fastion).
Recommendations about the choice of bedroom-slippers:
- The size of footwear has to correspond to the size of your leg. Do not buy footwear, smaller by the size, when yours the heel and fingers hang down.
- Bedroom-slippers should not be too flexible, especially in the middle. The most flexible zone of shlepanets has to be a nasal part.
- Instep support. Choose bedroom-slippers with an instep support (gorbik in the middle for the foot arch) and with a thick sole.
- Choose footwear with wide thongs behind and wide front straps.
- Choose natural and soft materials (for example, skin).
- Change Vietnamese at least once a year.
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