Hylton Menz, PhD, deputy director of the Musculoskeletal Research Center at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia. Currently a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Institute for Aging Research at Harvard Medical School in Boston, he is the author of the textbook Foot Problems in Older People: Assessment and Management (Churchill Livingstone) and a coauthor of Falls in Older People: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention (Cambridge University).
Don’t wear thick-soled sneakers and other surprising ways to protect yourself. Each year, about one in every three people over…
