As you age, chronic pain can occur seemingly overnight. Joint pain symptoms can erode not only your active lifestyle but quality of life overall. Arthritis based diseases target the tissue and cartilage that cushions your knee, wrist and other joints causing inflammation and ongoing soreness.
If you are among the millions of aging women across the country, you are dealing with daily health issues with chronic joint pain being at the top of the list. Certainly, physical activity and sports related injuries can cause stiffness and lack of mobility in your knees, ankles and toes. But your feet can also be affected by age related diseases like gout, which can target the same areas and be excruciatingly painful.
In addition, many women can look to their footwear as a direct reason why they are having issues with their feet and toes. Overuse of these types of shoes may cause a woman to experience tenderness and pain resulting in conditions such as bunions or corns. Bunions, corns and calluses are caused or aggravated by poor fitting footwear that do not allow the feet to position themselves naturally when standing or walking. Continue reading ‘Is Your Joint Pain a Symptom of Old Age Or Your High Heels?’ »