Ben Wang, January 06: Recently, Ms. Zhao, a reader of the newspaper, consulted this newspaper. Her 4-year-old daughter saw nursery children wearing thick-soled shoes, wearing air-cushioned sports shoes or even platform shoes, and arguing about buying them. Ms. Zhao would like to consult such a shoe is not suitable for children to wear?
Huang Jianping, director of Pediatrics at the First Hospital of Peking University, pointed out that preschool children are not recommended to wear shoes that are too thick or air-cushioned. Platform shoes are not particularly recommended. Studies abroad have shown that children under the age of 7 should not wear thick-soled shoes. Because the height of the heel of such shoes is increased, the curvature of the child's spine is also increased, and the stress of the lumbar spine and the cervical spine is concentrated, and it is easy to form a chronic injury. And children like to keep running and jumping. The shoes need to bend and contact with the ground as they move. The thicker the soles bend, the more effort they make, resulting in foot fatigue and affecting the health of the knee and lumbar spine.
And the platform shoes are often higher than the height of the heel, which destroys the balance of the foot surface. It is recommended that children choose a shoe with a sole thickness of 1 cm or less and a heel height of 1.5 cm. Others that are too thin and thick should be avoided.
October 23, 2018