Surprisingly, the participants, both women and men who wore heels regularly, walked better and more efficiently after the study, not only in heels but also in regular shoes. Here's why. You don’t need ...

Frequently wearing high heels could help you walk more efficiently in flat shoes, a new study found. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Georgia Institute of Technology found that ...

Anyone who’s ever wobbled around awkwardly in high heels may be surprised by the findings of a much-discussed biomechanics study of the footwear. In the study, young women and men who donned ...

While holding a 3-foot-long cane behind my back, I walked the plank — wobbling along a narrow wooden platform in a pair of hot pink, 4-inch pumps that I’d dug out from the back of my closet hours ...