Can the right shoes relieve knee pain?

You want to know whether the right pair of shoes can ease knee pain, and the word right is doing a lot of work in that question.

Shoe wedges and knee arthritis

OrthoInfo (AAOS) speaks to one footwear add-on in its arthritis of the knee guide.

Placing wedges in your shoe is not recommended for relieving knee discomfort.

Wedges placed in a shoe are a different thing from shoes themselves, so this advice neither backs nor rules out any particular shoe.

Shoes and inserts sold for knee relief

A claim that a specific shoe or insert relieves knee pain needs its own named standard or study. Treat a footwear label that promises relief as unproven until it names its evidence.

Footwear questions for your clinician

Ask the clinician examining your knee about footwear, and about wedges in particular, before you spend money on either. In Totowa and nearby towns, that is a question any examining clinician can take. For wider reading, see MedlinePlus on knee injuries and disorders, WebMD's pain management center and OrthoInfo's page on arthritis of the knee.

Reading footwear advice for its basis

The documented point is a caution about wedges. Before you act on other footwear advice, look for the basis it names.