Painful Foot Disorders in the Geriatric Population: A Narrative Review Painful foot disorders are highly prevalent among older adults causing a significant impact on mobility, function, and risk of falls. Despite its significance, foot pain is often interpreted as a normal part of aging and relatively ignored by health care providers as well as by the elderly themselves. Accurate diagnosis of the cause of foot pain is possible for most cases via clinical evaluation without a costly workup. Clinicians should consider, not only musculoskeletal pathologies, but also vascular and neurological disorders in older patients with foot pain. Fortunately, a majority of patients improve with physiatric, non-operative interventions involving biomechanical analysis, function oriented rehabilitation programs and therapeutic exercise, the use of proper footwear and orthoses, and selected percutaneous interventions, as indicated. In this review, we discuss the physiologic changes of the aging foot relevant to foot pain, the impact of painful foot disorders on function and other key outcomes, and principles of diagnosis and intervention. We also briefly describe painful foot disorders of the elderly commonly encountered in a physiatric practice. Previous presentation of the data: not applicable Financial support: none Corresponding author: Mooyeon Oh-Park, M.D. Address: Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, 785 Mamaroneck Av, White Plains, NY, 10605, U.S.A. Email: mohpark@burke.org Painful Foot Disorders in the Geriatric Population: A Narrative Review Copyright © 2019 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.