BraceAbility Sleeping Stretch Boot - Plantar Fasciitis Night Foot Splint Adjustable Achilles Tendonitis Brace for Fascia, Tendon and Calf Stretching, Heel and Bone Spur, Arch Pain Treatment (Medium)

This thing works so well! I’d gotten new insoles for my plantar fasciitis, which worked for about a month or two before the pain came back with a vengeance. I was limping and not walking without moaning every vowel of the alphabet with each step before trying this contraption. I’d also tried two other night supports with no success. They kept my foot warm at night but didn’t hold it in the alignment I needed to heal correctly.The very first morning after wearing this boot, I felt significant relief from the typical morning/after-rest pain of re-tearing my healing fascia. The wedge is great for a nice toe stretch, as is the way it can flex the ankle further than 90 degrees.The straps velcro to adjust, but to put on and take off it’s just a clip. This means you don’t need to tighten/loosen constantly, which is nice because the grip of this velcro is serious! And you don’t need to mess with the looping buckle adjuster thingies all the time—although, in this case, the buckle adjusters are actually a cinch to work (😉) in the event you need them and when first fitting the boot. When you’re ready to wear again, you just snap yourself back in. It is a little awkward sometimes to find the part you need to press to release. That’s on the right end of the straps which is on the outside in my case since it’s my right leg, but it’s really nbd. I’ll be using it on my left soon enough to fix some creeping Achilles tenderness and they will be more accessible. We all get a turn!The toe wedge is great to have, but I can only use it during the day when I can feel when I need to wiggle my toes, since my foot falls asleep from the pressure. That happens to me when I’m sleeping in the boot even without the wedge in place, and has happened with past boots and casts I’ve had for other injuries, so it’s wholly a me thing.I’m a back sleeper, and the numbness was waking me up at night at first. Since turning over on my side when I lay down to sleep the numbness issue is completely gone. I also keep all but the lowest strap pretty loose. I fasten them all to keep the boot on, but that last one on top of the foot I keep more snug—but not tight! They really don’t need to be tight! The key is to have that ball/sole support keeping your toes from dropping/pointing and your ankle flexed all night.I will keep this contraption around even after I heal this pain for the next time I get old again. If you’re reading this, give it a try! 👍

Recommended by the Michigan Foot Doctors, a very helpful YouTube channel.My right ankle was immobilized 9 weeks (mostly in a cast, but then in a boot for about 3 of those weeks). Great for setting my fractures but terrible for my Achilles tendon. I got right into physiotherapy and progressed from the lightest stretches to some more aggressive stretches. But after a nearly a month of that, I was not happy with my progress.I'd do stretches as prescribed, but my ankle still throbbed with stiffness and pain. A prescribed MRI revealed that I had plantar fasciitis to boot. I had been watching some of the great online physiotherapist videos and because of them I bought and was using really good strong orthotics, but because of the MRI result, I finally stumbled on the Michigan Foot Doctors discussion of how to cure Plantar Fasciitis. There are quite a few excellent tips in that video about how to deal with the pain, immobility and inflammation of that fascia. And that's where I saw this device, referred to as a night splint.Dr Biernacki says that it's just as effective (and way more comfortable) to wear the device for 40 minutes daily while watching tv, rather than trying to sleep with it on. So I tried that. What a difference!No amount of active physiotherapy - prescribed stretching would really do anything for the constant mild pain of walking (Classical Stretch DVD workouts have helped and make my whole body feel great so I do recommend those as well). But after 40 somewhat uncomfortable minutes in this BraceAbility stretch boot (whole time I felt new areas of the foot being stretched), I realized that the long passive stretching was getting to not only my Achilles tendon, but picking up adhesions and atrophy-bound bits and pieces of fascia, tendons and muscle in the entire area. I took the boot off and my foot felt AMAZING. Like my ankle and foot haven't felt this free and loose since before the fracture.I highly recommend it. Worth every penny.