The authors of a recent study published in Clinical Interventions in Aging designed a “new shoe insole and explored the effectiveness of the insole in improving balance and alleviating foot pain in healthy older adults.” The authors enrolled older adult patients age 65 and older without abnormal gait patterns, or lower limb deformities. Each participant was assigned to good- and poor-stability groups and were required to wear the insole for 8 weeks. The authors found that “a heel cup with arch support insole is effective in enhancing the standing balance of the elderly,” and that it “may be of benefit in preventing falls.”
