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Where is arthritis the most common in the world?

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Where is arthritis the most common in the world?

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As of 2020 statistics, arthritis is the most common in Russia. It is more common in men in Russia (37%) and in women it is 17%. The reason for the being the most common there is because they do not have good diets and Russians stand a lot and work very hard. All the pressure gets put down on their feet which causes them to get arthritis.

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Arthritis is quite common in woman over the age of 65. It doesn't just limit woman over 65. It can happen to men and women at any age.

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Arthritis can feel like a burning sensation. You can be fine for a few minutes or hours and then all of a sudden you get that super sharp pain and a burning sensation in your foot. Woman could barely stand and would have to sit down and soak their feet.

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As the woman grew her feet would usually grow with her. After getting their feet binded their feet would no longer grow along with the woman, they would stay small.

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There is not a treatment or cure. The only way to sort of get back to normal is breaking your feet back, but you would have to do that not much later after getting your feet binded.

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This tradition started in ancient China. The person who started this tradition went by the name of Yao Niang. She believed that since woman had smaller feet men and the mothers of the men would become more attracted to the girl/woman.

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It was considered attractive due to how small their feet were

It also showed how rich her family was (unbinded feet = she had to work → poor) (binded = she stayed home with the family → wealthy)

The only way to marry into a wealthy family or to marry a man with money was to have binded feet

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After having your feet binded girls and women would never be able to walk fluidly and smoothly again

They could not walk very far either

Foot binding is the breaking of the toes and the arch of the foot

Some side effects of foot binding is pain in the pelvis

Many experience pain there because many women have trouble walking and balancing and that leads to having a lot of weight down there and that causes pelvic pain

Many women later on have found that they have gotten really painful arthritis in their feet

It is so painful that they have to sit down and put their feet in a salt bath to try to sooth them a little bit

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No it is banned. Feet binding got banned in 1912. Some women still do it in secret to keep the tradition of it going. Foot binding is not forced anymore like it was in the 10th century.

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When a mother’s son was ready to get married the mother would choose his wife for him based off of the women’s feet and their appearance

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No they did not really have the choice. The mom of the girl would make the girls get the feet binding. It wasn’t the male who was forcing them to.

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Foot binding started at a very young age so that they could get the pain over with and then they didn’t have to deal with it when they were older

The process would start by soaking the girls feet in warm water and then scrubbing all the dead skin off and clipping the toes nails. When it finally came time for the binding they would wrap a bandage around the feet so that when the feet were broken and were in the process of binding the bandage would squeeze the feet tighter.

Girls had to undergo this procedure multiple times every couple of days (getting their feet re bandaged up)

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1. https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/china-history/chinese-foot-binding.htm

2. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8966942

3. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/lasting-damage-foot-binding/606439/

4. https://www.mymed.com/health-wellness/body-modifications/foot-binding/what-are-some-of-the-health-complications-of-foot-binding#:~:text=Foot%20binding%20resulted%20in%20the,and%20led%20to%20pelvic%20pain.

5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5106533/

6. https://www.kidzworld.com/article/2142-history-chinese-foot-binding/#:~:text=Foot%20Binding%20Facts&text=Foot%20binding%20was%20seen%20as,because%20they%20were%20always%20hidden.

7. https://listverse.com/2017/10/25/10-bizarre-facts-about-lotus-feet/

8. https://www.ranker.com/list/stomach-churning-things-you-didnt-know-about-chinese-foot-binding/jeffrichard

9. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8966942#:~:text=Footbinding%20was%20banned%20in%201912,a%20village%20in%20Southern%20China.