Link has an important role to play in this care, by making up the appropriate therapeutic shoes to allow for quick recovery.

She also wore therapeutic shoes prior to the auction, and was only walked on soft ground.

Horses with lameness problems may require handmade or specialized therapeutic shoes.

Medicare will help pay for certain therapeutic shoes although paperwork limits the diabetics who try them, says Lavery.

In some cases, your doctor might recommend special therapeutic shoes, so you are not trying to wedge your changed feet into regular shoes.

A 2000 meta-analysis by the Cochrane Collaboration concluded that "there is very limited evidence of the effectiveness of therapeutic shoes".

When foot problems in patients with diabetes are caught early, treatments such as therapeutic shoes can cut down on their risk of later needing an amputation, Wrobel said.

Application of various types of therapeutic shoes, pads, and wedges, can be used to help alter stress placed on structures within the foot or the lower limb.

Orthofeet partners with medical professionals and DME providers throughout the US to provide patients with a great selection of therapeutic shoes, insoles and socks.

Most independent pharmacies provide durable medical equipment (DME), such as diabetes testing supplies, therapeutic shoes for diabetics, prosthetics, orthotics and other supplies to meet essential health needs.

Around me flows a river of amblers and striders and brisk walkers and lollygaggers: a splay-footed woman lugging packages, a man in boots galumphing along, two older women wearing therapeutic shoes.

Diabetic shoes, sometimes referred to as extra depth, therapeutic shoes or Sugar Shoes, are specially designed shoes, intended to reduce the risk of skin breakdown in diabetics with co-existing foot disease.

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Rip and I drive there one night because Du-par's is crowded with teenage boys coming from toga parties and old waitresses wearing therapeutic shoes and lilacs pinned to their uniforms who keep telling people to be quiet.

Mr. Markell, also 27, is the executive assistant to his father, who is the president of the M. J. Markell Shoe Company; the company is a family-owned wholesaler of orthopedic and therapeutic shoes in Yonkers.

"It was surprising," said the lead author of the study, Dr. Gayle E. Reiber, "because the convention is that foot specialists say therapeutic shoes and inserts should be prescribed freely to all patients with diabetes and prior foot ulcers."