Is Your Style Causing You Pain?
July 16, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Women can be their own worst enemy sometimes. The fashions that we put up with can cause pain and even disfigurement if we’re slaves to certain fads. We don’t have to look too far back to learn about women who were disfigured in the name of beauty. For hundreds of years, the practice of foot binding was common place in China. The idea was to bind the feet of young girls to form them into tiny, more desirable feet. The practice only ended in the early 1900s.
Although not as dramatic as foot binding, we can’t say that we don’t do …read more




