Have a look at the feet of women who wear high heels or even low heel shoes or shoes that squash their toes in. Their feet become hideously disfigured and they do all sorts of damage further up their structure because their balance is put off, because their toes are supposed to be spread out. Their ankles are highly stressed because they are being asked to rotate around a new axis point. This throws the lower leg (tibia/fibia) forward, so now the knee has to rotate around a new centerpoint, and then the femur has to tilt back or she will fall down forward, then the hip has to rotate around another new axis and so forth up the line, creating a 'user created' scoliosis.
All the muscles from the tips of the toes to the neck have to work constantly causing tension pain, headaches and a whole plethora of diseases. For instance the tilted forward tibia/fibia muscles have to constantly be yanking the leg back. Then this self-induced scoliosis forces the torso to be tilted one way or the other so the person doesn't tip over.
The result of this is that the internal organs will be compressed or decompressed, which affects the way that they communicate/operate, because they are made the proper size to fit in the chest cavity and when they are squeezed for instance, they do not have room to move and peristaltic action for instance is inhibited.
The crushing of the toes damages the energy points (Acupuncture or Marma points) on their feet which causes disease in distant parts of their body.
AFAIAC the whole thing about osteoporosis (dowager's hump) is BS and invented to sell calcium tablets. The real cause and the reason why it's mostly women who have health issues generally is due to footwear. Makeup is a close second. Excessively tight clothing comes in third..... which of course causes men to have issues... but that's another type of problem... LOL
It's interesting that people point to the oriental fashion of binding women's feet for 'beauty' and call it barbaric etc., when in reality, fashion footwear the world over does exactly the same thing including men's cowboy boots. Indeed having any heel on a shoe is a fashion statement and completely unnecessary and indeed damaging to the feet for the reasons stated above. It's just a matter of degree.
During the American Revolution, historians say that one of the reasons why the Brits lost, is that at the time, some idiot came up with a boot for the soldiers that was made to be worn on both feet. Soldiers were told to switch feet every day. The poor slobs could hardly march and that's one way wars are won and lost, marching.
