Plantar Fasciitis Night Splint Drop Foot Orthotic Brace, Adjustable Plantar Fasciitis Brace, Improved Dorsal for Effective Relief from Plantar Fasciitis, Achilles Tendonitis, Ankle Pain

I love this brace. It works well plus helps with my foot drop

This product worked for my plantar fasciitis. It was a little difficult to figure out how to use at first but once I figured it out it worked great and healed my persistent PF in about a week only wearing it a few hours a day.I have found the best way to put this thing on is opposite what the instructions say. Fasten it snuggly but not overly tight around your toes so those are lined up correctly. Your toes should be sticking out and the strap wrapped around the ball of your foot. Then flex your foot toward your calf and fasten that. I had to bend the metal bar to a deeper angle than it came but that was easy to do and held up for a few days of stretching before bending back again and I would have to adjust.At the start, I didn't think the stretch was as deep as it should be but after wearing it the first time my foot started aching in that way that you know you are getting a good deep stretch. By the end of the week, my foot no longer ached while in the device but my pain when walking had completely disappeared as well.This device is a little less bulky than the boot style braces which is why I chose it and the padding makes it very comfortable. My toes inevitably feel asleep after a couple hours of wearing it but when that that happened I would just take it off and put it on again later in the day or the next day.This is a great budget option for people looking to try to help their foot pain before having to see an expensive specialist. It definitely worked for me!

Easy to use except that the Velcro kept coming undone on me making it frustrating to use. The bent piece aluminum that rests over the top of the foot can become uncomfortable, but these splints are designed for stretching the tendon--not comfort. I didn't even bother with the extra red massage ball. The night splint is an okay option if you have no medical insurance. My podiatrist gave me a similar night splint, which was covered by insurance, with three Velcro straps that was a little more comfortable. Plantar Fasciitis will eventually heal, but it takes months of stretching and massaging the tendon, and perhaps having a cortisone injection to help with the pain. Losing weight helps to avoid Plantar Fasciitis. Good Luck!

Edit 11/13/2019 - When I first wrote this review, it was after purchasing the splint, and the strap immediately broke. However, the company saw my review and said they had improved the design to be stronger, and sent me a replacement. They did sent me a replacement, and the strap didn't break immediately, but the thing is... I didn't need it any more. Thing is, my heel spurs are completely gone.I wore the broken, original splint with the strap hanging loose every night for about a month and a half. Very gradually my heel started to get better. The metal bar inside the splint seems to be enough. Unlike the outerdoo splint that I also bought, the bar never broke through the cloth to poke at my leg. Also it was much more comfortable than the big bulky padded splint I also had (can't think of the name, but it is grey and wears like a boot). So I'm not sure the strap is even necessary.Anyway if the strap does break for you, *do not* try using rivets as I did. The cloth just tears around them and now the dangling strap has rivets in it.Original review:The strap that pulls your toes towards your knee broke as I was trying to bend my foot to a 90 degree angle. The fabric that goes around the ball of your foot is very cushiony and has a lot of give so I was using the strap to compensate (its purpose, I assume). But the velcro piece at the end of the strap is just glued on or something and it snapped then I used it to pull. I'm going to try using a rivet or the like to attach it back tomorrow. I still give this 3 stars because even without the strap it is better than the Outerdoo splint I was using earlier, which has less padding and jabs the top of your foot with the metal bar inside.

Flawed design to say the least and will likely cause additional pain as it did me. I wanted to give it a try rather than using the bulky boot type supports. Not only was it ineffective because the flawed design, it caused new pain at the top of my foot. The idea is to have your toes pointed slightly upward toward your body to stretch the foot. Instead of the hard part (metal support) being at the bottom of your foot like other braces for this purpose, this was designed with the metal top of the foot with only fabric wrapping around the bottom of the foot. The fabric stretches so the top of the foot never really comes forward which is what is needed but even worse, with your foot not able to point upward toward your body the metal support digs into the top of your foot. Not only does this NOT help the bottom of the foot, it causes more pain at the top of the foot (the boney part). If you want something that effectively works, get the boot type support with the hard bottom that goes from your toes, around. your heels and up the back of the calf with straps on top of your foot and the front of your leg. I've had issues with heel spurs on and off for years.... the boot type with hard bottom and straps on top of the foot is the only effective design. I'm not saying the boot type with the hard bottom will be comfortable to sleep with but it will certainly be more effective than this very flawed useless thing. Don't waste a dime on this one.

I don't know if this night splint/brace will help because after one night (partial night because I took it off about 1/2 way through the night) the top adjust strap on one of the braces/splint tore nearly all the way across.Poor quality in that aspect. If it didn't make it through, let's say one full night, how is it supposed to benefit me for months of treatment to try and get some benefit !?!?The only reason it's 2 stars vs 1 is because it's comfortable. No hard plastic putting pressure on different spots through the night like others I have read about. But the simple question is, what's comfort if it won't do its job?I will look for a different solution.