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Think about your knees when you're shopping for your feet: some shoes may benefit the foot at the expense of the knee.(BONES & JOINTS)

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| February 01, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2009 Belvoir Media Group, LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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The shoes you purchase to keep your feet in tip-top form may be wreaking havoc on your knees if you have knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to new study results presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, held in Boston, MA, in November.

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It appears that foot-friendly clogs and shock-absorbing stability shoes may place excessive loads on the knees of people with knee OA report researchers led by Najia Shakoor. MD an assistant professor of internal medicine in the section of Rheumatology at Rush Medical College in Chicago.

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