Twentysomething Women Are the Most Likely to Get Injuries From High Heels
by Traci Bratton
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham crunched the numbers from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. They estimated that 123,355 high-heel-related injuries were treated in emergency rooms in the U.S. from 2002 to 2012, and the rate doubled during that 10-year span.