1University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
2CMH Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan
3Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan
*Corresponding e-mail: anammahmood129@gmail.com
Online published on 1 October, 2020.
To determine pain in lower back and calf muscles among females due to high heels shoe wear.
A sample size of 87 females working women and students were recruited on the basis of the purposive sampling technique. Participants were requested to wear 5 cm stiletto high heels and they were asked to walk on treadmill at the-pace of 4km/hr for 20 minutes. Modified McGill Questionnaire for pain measurement was used as a tool before and after test data collection.
In this study observation of muscular pain was significant in lower limb and lower back muscles due to high heels i.e. 29.6% and 24.7% respectively.
Back and lower limbs musculature pain contribute only 8.6% whereas, only back pain had been observed in 9.9%. Paired sample t-test was used to-determine pain before and after test was significant with p-value 0.000.
Musculoskeletal pain (MSK pain), McGill Questionnaire, High heel shoe wear, Lower back pain (LBP), Calf muscles
