Six UAE doctors advise against fashionable high heels for girls

Six medical practitioners have discouraged the early passage to adulthood of girls by way of the families’ yielding into fashion and society pressures.

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

In particular, Al Zahra Hospital (Dubai) Clinical Health psychologist Dr. Mona Youssri, NMC Specialty Hospital Tower (Abu Dhabi) Neurology specialist Dr. Vasireddy Sindhu, Burjeel Hospital for Advanced Surgery (Dubai) Orthopaedic Surgery consultant Dr. Allaedin Elbadawi, Thumbay University Hospital (Ajman) Paediatrics & Neonatology consultant Dr. Osama Elsayed Rezk Elassy, LLH Hospital (Musaffah) Paediatrics consultant Dr. Sridevi Patra, and NMC Royal Hospital (DIP) Rheumatology consultant Dr. Che Helene unanimously rejected the fashionable high heels, originally a trend over a decade back.

Patra said: “It affects physical growth and shifts the centre of gravity, moving from the soles of their feet to their limbs; leading to poor posture and spinal issues with long-term back and knee pain. The growth of plates in the feet do not fully close until around ages 14 to 16.”

Gulf Today consulted, since by late October and over Facebook, while a lady wowed two dolled-up looks of a girl that appears to be barely in her primary grade, the lady also commented: “Oh poor little girl” in reference to her Mary Jane pumps.

For the past three years, a Sharjah career woman has been persistently “sweetly” nagged by her preteen daughter: “She will enjoy at the proper time.”