Are the soles of your feet stinging when you wear sandals?Himchan Hospital's Summer Shoes and Foot Pain Causes
Jul 10, 2025
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In summer shoes, the soles of the feet or toes absorb the shock completely, causing pain easily. In addition, many people worry about cracking their heel skin as it thickens and turns white. It is caused by a lack of moisture in the skin that does not cause old dead skin cells to fall off, and it can be dried even by cooling, so it is important not to dry out.
Kim Yoo-geun, head of Bupyeong Himchan Hospital Orthopedic Surgery Hospital, said "The deformation and disease of the foot increased rapidly after wearing shoes"First of all, you should wear shoes that suit you, and you should choose shoes that are soft and easily shock-absorbing on the sole of your foot.'
◇Wearing wrong shoes, causing various foot disease
Shoes with too low or too high heels, thin shoes with little cushioning, and shoes with a design of one-sided center of gravity do not properly absorb the impact on the foot when walking and are not stable, causing pain. In particular, shoes with bands or straps that only cover the back of the foot without a heel, such as slippers and sandals that are often worn in summer, apply particular force only to the front of the foot. Shoes should be stabilized by fixing their feet back and forth, but if their entire feet are not fixed, it is easy to strain their foot muscles or tendons or sprout their ankles while walking.
Common foot diseases caused by shoes include oesophagia, plantar fasciitis, and hepatic neuropathy.
Anorexia refers to a condition in which the big toe is severely bent toward the second toe and the joint of the big toe protrudes inward. The big toe part of the shoe you actually wear protrudes, indicating that there is anorexia where the big toe bends.
The big toe sticks out and the bone touches the shoes, causing pain. If only the big toe hurts, the pain disappears if you don't wear shoes, but if the other toe starts to hurt, you have pain even if you don't wear shoes. Women's shoes are considered an important cause among the causes that occur more in women than in men. It is also important to choose shoes that fit the length and width of your feet, but you should also consider whether the bent toe matches the bent shoe.
Plantar fasciitis, in which the soles of the feet hurt, is a disease caused by repeated micro-damage of the plantar fascia that maintains the arch of the foot and absorbs shock. If you often wear shoes that lack cushioning, the impact of stepping on your feet is not properly absorbed, causing repeated damage to the plantar fascia and inflammation. It hurts the most when you wake up and take your first step, and when you sit for a long time and start walking, it hurts at first. The pain gets better. You should wear cushioned shoes on your heels and stretch your plantar fascia and Achilles tendon steadily
The hepatic neuropathy, called the Malton clade, causes pain when the tissue around the plantar nerve distributed in the toes is stimulated for various reasons and hardens. It is a symptom of numbness in the toes due to thickening of the nerves to the toes under pressure. It is easy to occur when shoes such as flat shoes, which have narrow feet and thin soles, are often worn. It is easy to leave your shoes because the pain disappears when you take them off, but soft shoes with ample cheeks are good.
◇Efforts to reduce pressure on feet are important
Shoes with too high hooves or hard heels put excessive pressure on the heels, causing pain as the skin thickens, and shoes with too loose feet increase friction to create calluses. If it's a simple callus, removing it lowers the pressure a lot, alleviating the pain. Removing thick skin can temporarily subside symptoms, which can be organized using a dedicated exfoliation tool when the skin softens after a bath. However, if calluses occur repeatedly even after removal, there may be a causative disease, so the causative disease should be treated after confirmation with a test such as X-ray. The more calluses are removed, the thicker they become, or the risk of infection with bacteria during the removal process and inflammation should be noted.
The heel has a particularly thick stratum corneum on the skin's surface to protect it from external irritation. If your skin is dry, it can crack and cause severe pain, but in the summer, it can also be dry with air conditioners such as air conditioners, so you need to apply moisturizing cream or foot cream steadily.
It is also important to reduce the pressure on your feet during your usual activities. It is recommended to wear shoes such as sneakers that are less burdensome, and you should choose shoes made of fluffy material that can absorb the impact of the soles of your feet. You should avoid shoes that fit too tightly or have narrow front cheeks and wear shoes with wide feet. The upper part of the shoe is soft, the bottom is well padded, and it is recommended that the heel does not exceed 5 cm. Both feet may have different sizes, so when purchasing, you should measure the size of both feet and choose according to the larger feet.
Kim Yoo-geun, director of the hospital, said "The foot plays an essential role in walking in daily life, so if you feel any pain or deformation different from usual, you should check it to prevent it from getting worse."Efforts to strengthen the power of the intrinsic muscles that move the toes are also necessary to maintain healthy feet," he said. If the toe is more than 5mm wide, it has normal muscle strength, and people with deformation or pain of the foot do not spread widely.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
