Podiatrists from the Valencian Community (ICOPCV) warn about “mistakes” in foot care tips given by influencers or celebrities.
The Illustrious Official College of Podiatrists of the Valencian Community (ICOPCV) has warned that an increasing number of influencers both on social networks and on television programs give recommendations to improve foot health “without any type of scientific basis or health training in Podiatry, and this can pose a risk “.
“It is very important that the population take into account that any information on foot health must be given by a professional who has completed these health studies,” said the president of the ICOPCV, Pilar Nieto.
Thus, as it has affected maite garciaVice President of the ICOPCV.
- “Recently we have heard atrocities from television presenters on national programs and from influencers with more than 70,000 followers on Instagram who claim how to correct bunions or other types of foot pathologies with techniques that are not approved by the scientific community, that are not proven and that can lead to errors or to spending money on products that are not really efficient,”
Are bunions hereditary?
In relation to bunions, the ICOPCV ensures that yes they are hereditary“even though they are saying no.”
“This does not mean that yes or yes, if my mother or father have it, I will have it. This means that I will be more willing to suffer from them and, obviously, depending on the degree that I have with prevention, I will be able to avoid their appearance or delay it,” he explains. Garcia.
- About silicone interdigital separatorspodiatrists assure that they do not cureThey do not treat anything at all, and they only stretch the intrinsic muscles of the foot.
In addition, they specify that it is only scientifically described that they have corrective and palliative effects of silicone orthoses which are made to measure.
The fashion that sparked a plague of bunions in medieval Britain
“Before dead than simple,” the song said. “To be handsome you have to suffer,” many of us say. Fashion is always present and the desire to look good is (almost) all of us.
We take more and more care of ourselves, do more sports and pay more attention to how we dress, how we comb our hair…
In the Britain medieval was also done. We are not the first to take care of everything that has to do with our image. But the difference is that now, for the most part, we do not put our health at risk to carry it out.
It is no coincidence that we refer to the history of Great Britain or to the medieval times. And it is that, researchers of the University of Cambridge have shown how their ancestors suffered a veritable epidemic of hallux valgus.
This is a plague of bunions!
Around the year 1300 in the middle of the British medieval era, as confirmed by the Cambridge analyzes of the skeletal remains found in the city where the university center is located, bunions became the norm among the inhabitants of that society.
A condition that subsequently led to a considerable increase in the number of fracturessomething more serious than bunions.
- «Modern clinical research in patients with «hallux valgus». has shown that the deformity makes balance difficult and increases the risk of falls, which would explain the higher number of healed broken bones we found in medieval skeletons with this condition,” Dr Jenna Dittmar, from the University of Cambridge.
This increase in “hallux valgus” coincides, curiously, with the moment when the famous pointed shoes that we will all have seen in the movies became fashionable in that medieval society.
In this minor deformity, as defined by experts, the longest toe leans outward and a bony bump forms at its base, on the inside of the foot.
“We investigated the changes that occurred between the high and late medieval periods and realized that the increase in hallux valgus over time must have been due to the introduction of these new styles of footwear,” says Dr. Dr Piers Mitchell of the Department of Archeology at the University of Cambridge.
Analysis of the remains found
The Bone remains found in Cambridge, United Kingdom, they appeared in the center of the city, in plots destined for the burial of wealthy members of that society, as well as clergy.
Remains that were found in four different locations within the British city environment: a charitable hospital, the grounds of a former Augustinian convent, a local parish cemetery and a rural cemetery next to a town about six kilometers south of the city of Cambridge.
This social stratum, due to its dominant economic position and being able to dress in fashion, would be more likely to have had bunions.
Moreover, only 3% of the analyzed citizens who lived in rural areas suffered, due to the signs studied, from this minor hallux valgus deformity. On the contrary, almost half of those found in the convent and the parish, 43% specifically, bore the marks of the bunions.
To reach this conclusion, the Cambridge researchers analyzed 177 skeletons and came to the conclusion that the remains dated between the 14th and 15th centuries had 21% more obvious signs of having suffered “hallux valgus”.
This conclusion, together with how the style of shoes changed significantly in the fourteenth century, makes the Cambridge researchers understand that it was this circumstance that caused the deformity in the feet of medieval Britons.
- “The 14th century brought a host of new styles of clothing and footwear in a wide range of fabrics and colors. Among these fashion trends were pointed, long-toed shoes called poulaines,” says study co-author Dr Piers Mitchell of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology.
A situation that was known and known by the society of the time as demonstrated by the laws promulgated in 1463 by the king Edward IV which limited the length of the tip to less than two inches in London.
An attempt was made to put a stop to the bunion plaguebut it was already late.
The study has been published in the scientific journal International Journal of Paleopathologywhere the project team After the Plague of the University of Cambridge maintains that these shoes «poulaine» were the cause of the rise in bunions in medieval Britain.