How do you tell if a shoe is a good fit? Take a short walk? Squeeze the front-end with your fingers to make sure there is space for your toes? What about a dangerous, 20-second blast of unshielded ...

Many of the greatest scientific discoveries are eventually changed and adapted for more practical and widespread use. Since its discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, the use of the X-ray has become ...

IT IS now common practice in many shoe stores and shoe departments of department stores to supplement usual shoe-fitting methods by the use of fluoroscopes known as x-ray shoe fitters. Because this ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — It was a tough time, back on March 24. When The Shoe Fits had just closed its four stores, and laid off nearly 25 employees. "We had to figure out what our best moves were to be," ...

Most of the time, sports podiatrist Rob Conenello, D.P.M., sees patients in his offices in Orangeburg, N.Y. There, he can take X-rays, relieve pain with treatments like injections and shockwave ...

As the saying goes, “if the shoe fits… wear it” But, sometimes it’s hard to tell exactly how your shoes should fit. For example, a size 9 in one brand might not be the exact same size in another brand ...

Uyeda's has been a fixture in Moiliili since 1957 mainly at University Square, serving generations of the same families and, since Claire Takashima has been in charge, providing comfortable shoes to ...

The shoe business has changed a lot in the last half-century. But the Miller Shoe Parlor in downtown Jackson has remained much the same. "We've stayed with the fundamentals," said Jim Shotwell, whose ...

The operators of Richard's Shoes in Wayne include couples Nick and Donna Olivia, at left, and Robert and Linda Gimon, at right. (Courtesy of Richard's Shoes) WAYNE -- After 44 years of fitting ...