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

I like it. Of course it is painful at first, I started looser with it as it was painful on the pad of my foot. After wearing it several nights in a row, that has lessened and my drop foot is almost completely gone. My foot bends back further than it has in years. It also has helped with my tendons that had tightened up. I can feel it in my hip from having drop foot for so long. Having that stretched each night is helping in other areas. This is quality made and looks like it will last and help me for a long time. I think the only weaker points would be the clips but they seem strong and work fine but if anything in this brace were a wear point I think it would be here. Not sure if they make replacements. Over all its a very good and solid brace that certainly does what I'd hoped. I recommend it.

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! 👍

I like the quality of this, it's well put together. The materials are all good it seems comfortable. Like others mentioned the straps could have been set up to tighten down a little bit more since this is a small size. I have to really crank it down and maybe do some modifications to get this to fit my son. The only other criticism I could make is that the clips are really nice feature to not have to always unvelcro the straps but the clips can be really difficult to unclip. I was hoping that my son would be able to use the clips to take this off when he's done wearing it on his own. But he struggles to use those as the buttons need a lot of force. It's not really a big deal because he can just unvelkro and then I have to just reset those straps the next time he wears. Overall I think this will work out great It's better quality than the last stretch brace that we got from an orthotics office.

It is true to size for me. The straps are on the longer size but still usable. Issues: 1. the Velcro used for the foam block has low quality glue and the block slides out of position easily. 2. The plastic injection location on the outside of the heel is covered by a paper sticker. The sticker is coming apart and it's a mess. I removed and cleaned up the glue just to find underneath the injection location that is rough and catches on everything. I had to grind it down and smooth the area with sandpaper. As many China produced items this is another one where they cut costs of finishing the product by shipping the work to the end user.

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.

I had high hopes for the BraceAbility Sleeping Stretch Boot, hoping it would be the solution to my plantar fasciitis and heel pain. It’s clear that this brace is built to last—it’s sturdy, well-made, and feels like a quality product. But unfortunately, that’s where the good ends for me. The biggest issue? The straps. They’re so uncomfortable that they actually make wearing this brace painful. They dig hard into the top of my foot, to the point that I end up adjusting them throughout the night, and even loosening them doesn’t make much of a difference. For a product meant to help with foot pain, the discomfort from the straps feels counterproductive. It’s frustrating because the brace does seem effective in terms of stretching, but it’s hard to get those benefits when the pain from the straps makes it impossible to sleep. I ended up missing the return window, which I regret, because I’ll be searching for an alternative that’s less painful to wear. It’s a shame because the quality is there, but for anyone who’s sensitive to pressure on the top of their foot, you may want to keep looking for a splint that’s both effective and truly comfortable. If they ever update this with softer or padded straps, I’d be interested in trying it again. But as it is, I can’t recommend it for those needing all-night relief without added discomfort.

It fits great and very comfortable. I wear an 8 1/2 - 9 in shoe size so the medium works for me . Also my ankle and heel doesn’t hurt anymore in the Morning with my first step.

My podiatrist recommended I wear an ankle brace at night during sleep to keep my foot with achilles tendinopathy to be in a 90 degree angle. This device was the only ankle brace I have tried that successfully kept my ankle in the 90 degree angle. All the other soft material angle brace models I bought on Amazon did not work to keep my ankle at the 90 degree angle. However, for an unkonwn reason, after wearing this brace for about 15-30 minutes, and I am supposed to wear this all night per my doctor, my achilles heel began to hurt at a level of pain from 8 to 10. I tried to keep it on for another 30-60 minutes but the intense pain never stopped and the only way to get to sleep was to take it off. I notified my podiatrist about this unexpected severe pain while wearing it and he told me under the circumstannces to stop wearing it. I would give the device 5 stars for working the best at keeping your ankle at the fixed 90 degre angle, but only giving it 2 stars as wearing it for me, maybe not for you, caused me severe pain in my achilles heel. You should give it a try and see if you get better results, and I hope you do get better results than me and your achilles heel will heal as best as possible with physicial therapy and stretches and by using this brace at bedtime. Thankfully I can return it for a full refund.