What causes hallux valgus?

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Beauty is a woman's nature, high-heeled shoes is naturally essential for female friends, but high-heeled shoes bring beauty, but also bring health risks, hallux valgus is a common one, more than 100 million people in China are troubled by hallux valgus. So, in addition to wearing high-heeled shoes, what other reasons can cause hallux valgus? Now let's take a look!

What causes hallux valgus?

Hallux valgus is a kind of deformity symptom that the big toe bends to the outside, leading to the protruding of the big toe bone. If the hallux valgus is not treated for a long time, it is easy to produce friction due to wearing shoes, causing swelling and inflammation of the inner or dorsal side of the big toe joint, and the outer side of the protruding bone is also easy to form thick skin and bursa, causing permanent deformation of the toes, and pain is also accompanied.

Congenital factors: caused by joints, nerves, muscles, etc. For example: flatfoot, genetic and plantar muscle strength reduction and imbalance, so that the sole function is reduced, resulting in instability and deformation, become the cause of hallux valgus.

Acquired factors: related to bad shoe wearing habits. Usually, because the heel is too high, too sharp and too narrow, the heel is not easy to fix, causing extrusion, friction and compression on the toes. It not only affects the extension and activity of the toes, causing discomfort and pain, but also destroys the function of the original three footholds. When walking, the whole body weight falls on the front of the foot, and the toes will gradually deform due to the weight compression, which will cause hallux valgus. The price women pay for beauty is that they are four times more likely to have foot problems than men. The complications of hallux valgus, overlapping toes, corns, foot cocoons, foot collapse and other foot diseases and bone negative errors caused by long-term extrusion of toes are constantly occurring, which seriously affect the normal walking ability and health.

matters needing attention

We often say that the foot is the second heart of the human body. If the foot is not healthy, it will also leave hidden dangers to our health. Therefore, we should pay enough attention to hallux valgus. Through the above introduction, we know that the causes of hallux valgus can be divided into congenital and acquired. In addition to the congenital inevitable factors, we should also avoid the acquired factors, Protect our feet.