What are the side effects of wearing flat shoes?
Yes, you could be causing damage to your feet. I recommend you get some shoes with arches. Birkenstocks and Neots have built in arches. You can buy a pair for cheap at Sam’s Club or go all out and buy yourself a nice pair at a store. Also, you can get a pair of SAS shoes that are more padded in the foot. They look like an old fogey shoe store but the shoes are hand made with a built in arch and I wear them due to severe pain in my feet. Whatever you do, stop walking barefoot in the house, this makes things worse. Also, you can get yourself a Thera-med cold pack. They are great and easily conform to your foot. I take a washcloth, cover the foot, wrap my foot in the flexible gel pack (stays cold LONG) for fifteen minutes. I do this whenever my feet ache and it does help.
