Style takes its toll.
That’s the result of a large population-based study of foot pain and shoe style, according to Alyssa Dufour of the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, and colleagues. But the finding applies only to women and only to one type of foot pain, Dufour and colleagues said in the October issue of Arthritis Care & Research. Women who wore “good” shoes were 67 percent less likely to develop hindfoot pain — in other words, pain in the heel area of the foot — than those who wore “average” shoes, they found. – From ABC