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How do pointe shoes affect your feet?

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"The shoes cause blisters, bunions, warts, hangnails, scuffs, cuts, scrapes, athlete's foot, additional pressure and strain on the feet, and the worst of all: IN GROWN TOENAILS. The pain is unbelievable. Ankles also tend to get twisted and sprained and those ribbons can cut off circulation.

And after your feet (but really, your whole body) has conditioned itself to pointework, when those shoes come off, it is a horrific sight! Thick calluses of the feet are good, insulation for the foot against the harsh uncomfortable enviorment of the pointe.

Taping the toes and gel inserts are also recommended. Some bleeding of the feet early on is to be expected. But aside from all that, the general role is "walk it off. Deal with it. No pain, no gain."

Those who say, "My feet are killing me" and have never put on a pair of toe shoes in their lives... don't know what the Hell they're talking about. They have no tolerance for discomfort and don't have the slightest idea of what true pain and sacrifice really is.

Wusses.

So get yourself tested. Get a professional opinion.

Good luck. Keep dancing. And hurting. Bleeding, even."

--Wishing You All The Luck with your Dancing, Career and Life, Dane Youssef

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