Skyfoot Orthopedic Heel Lift Inserts, Shock Absorption and Cushioning Height Increase Insoles for Achilles Tendonitis Relief, Heel Spurs, Heel Pain and Plantar Fasciitis (Small - 2/5" Thick)

Due to a neck injury (C1,C2), any jarring causes pain and discomfort. I long searched for different solutions to help ease this as your typical shoe would just send shock waves straight up to my head. I’d shuffle my feet, walk super slow and gently, walk on the balls of my feet and/or the sides.. anything to avoid my heels hitting the ground with any amount of force. These really helped alleviate that. Paired with soft soled shoes, I could walk fairly normal again. I tried a few other inserts they were just too firm and caused more issues. I need to feel like I’m walking on clouds, and these are the closest accessories that I’ve found.

I have a hip that goes out of place which results in one of my legs longer than the other. I use this when I am having pain and it helps greatly. They are soft and comfortable and stay in place. Easily changeable from shoe to shoe.

I put a lot of pressure on my heel when using the treadmill, so this helped a lot. However, I wish there was something that provided 4/5 inch of heel support, while also supporting your arches. I tried combining an arch support insole with this heel support insole and that made my foot too high where it was nearly coming out of the shoe.

I have a double bone spur situation on my right heel. Large per the X-ray. So my situation may not apply to others. These are a nice quality and do offer some support. I tried them on an open sandle first and they felt good there bc of the rise of the heel with the tendon pressure lessened on one spur. But I bought them for my walking shoes. There, they do push the heel up and offer some rigid cushion but consequently they pushed my bone spur higher up in the shoe at the same time, therefore caused rubbing with the back of the shoe because the heel was at a different height than the shoe was designed for, like most running: I asking shoes are designed. I went for a walk to test them fully and felt like I was a young child trying to walk in high heels but my bone spur rubbed the back of my shoe the whole time reminding me was I wasn’t young. I may use the supports on my sandals that do not have a rear strap. But using these supports for bone spurs in my walking/running shoes, they didn’t help me. They weren’t super cushiony because they seem more designed for raising the heel than cushion support. I don’t know why they worked best on the sandal other than the foot wasn’t restricted to acclimate like within the confines of the closed shoe with the extra space taken up by the support. A painful conundrum. Oh well.

My son uses these in all of his tennis shoes, it helps with pain and are very supportive .. easy to slip right in shoe .. very durable

I had hurt my Achilles tendon and noticed that it only hurt while wearing certain types of athletic sneakers. Literally ONLY my running shoes would make my leg/tendon hurt because the back of the shoe aggravated or poked at the wound. These little inserts lifted my foot just slightly in the shoe so that the back of my shoe was not hitting the wound. I bought the 2/5" because I thought the others would feel strange. Needless to say, they worked perfectly and I can now wear my running shoes again.As for Stickiness - I would say they do not stick well but that was ok for me. I transfer them from shoe to shoe. That being said, they do not move around once I have my foot in it.Hope this helps others too. The pain was debilitating and I am a happy walker again.

I have severe Achilles Tendonitis and a really heavy footfall. This is a bad combination. These Skyfoot heel inserts are amazing to cushion the heel and stop the jarring impact of it slamming into the floor and causing me extra inflammation. I love them so much I purchased them twice. I started with the thicker ones and was able to graduate to the thinner ones. They are really valuable for thin uncushioned flats but they work in all types of shoes that have an enclosed heel that don't flop. The bottoms have a little grip but aren't really sticky after a use or two. They stay in place really well with just the weight of your foot and fit of the shoe. They're really easy to just pull out and stick into whatever pair of shoes you want to wear. I won't be without them!

The issue was Achilles Tendonitis. However, as can happen with a bioengineered aid, these inserts are subject to different applications experiencing different results. In this case the inserts were tried in three different pairs of sneakers plus one pair of dress shoes. Firstly, the inserts are lifts. The heel is consequently raised and this potentially could result in the toes being pushed forward. In the case of a pair of Nike sneakers this is exactly what happened in the left shoe. The smaller toes became pressed against the end of the shoe. This became uncomfortable very quickly. The right shoe was not affected. This is not a criticism of Nike Sneakers. Obviously, we are all different - even to the point where our left and right feet are not exactly the same. Next to try was a pair of Skechers sneakers. The inserts were perfect as was the case with the Reebok sneaker and the dress shoes.The primary reason for this review is to highlight the point that any one given solution regarding an issue such as Achilles Tendonitis may not work for everybody or even every shoe. Where it did work the results were excellent and the inserts are still recommended but with foregoing as a caveat.