Many women complain about having to change shoe size after pregnancy. A U.S. study confirms and explains this phenomenon. Many pregnant posting on health forums "bigger feet after pregnancy" women. Capture decran 13 March 2013 17.19.52 Why has the feet of pregnant women sallongent? Now science can confirm the link between cause and effect, but also knows how to explain it! According to a study published this month in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a first pregnancy can save up to 1cm long feet! The study was conducted by an orthopedist, Dr. Neil Segal, a professor at the University of Iowa. He measured the feet of fifty women during the first trimester of pregnancy, and five months after the baby is born. 60 to 70% of them had, after childbirth, longer and wider feet. Dr. Segal gives two reasons for this purpose "big feet". A relaxation of the ligaments of the feet as a result of two hormones, estrogen and relaxin. The displacement of the center of gravity of the pregnant woman forward as her belly grows that the feet compensate for this weight s "flattening". They thus earn 2 to 10 mm in length. Unlike other morphological changes during pregnancy as the abdomen, wrist or spine disappear after delivery, this morphological change is irreversible. Fortunately, the feet become longer than the first pregnancy ... Damage to the shoe salesmen who have seen their sales explode with the mothers of large families!
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