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Special Shoes for Diabetics?

Dr. Thomas L. Schwenk, in Journal Watch* noted that "Many physicians recommend various types of therapeutic shoes and orthoses 'also called inserts, or orthotics] to prevent foot ulceration in patients with diabetes." Commenting on clinical studies, he concluded, "....therapeutic shoes and orthoses conferred no protective benefit."

*June 15, 2002, pub. by Mass. Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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