- Hi, I'm Parris and recently I did a video
about relief from plantar fasciitis and some insoles
I found that worked really well for me.
Coincidentally a company contacted me at the same time,
asking if I would try out the flip flops they had
that were specifically to help with plantar fasciitis pain.
I said "sure send me some," and they sure did.
This is from The Healing Sole and these are so fancy.
It's like opening an iPhone.
The bag is silky that they send them in.
Let me show you what they look like.
I was reading on their website about
the technology behind these flip flops.
I just assumed they added some arch support
because that's all I really was aware of with the insoles
that I've added to my shoes that help a lot.
But there's a lot more going on with this.
Here is what they look like,
they smell like summer.
But let me tell you about and show you
some of the really interesting features that will hopefully
help out my feet even more.
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- Now to me these look kind of thick,
sort of like the flip flops people wear
who wanna look a little bit taller, but I think that's
so they can incorporate all the different features.
And some of these are solid,
but i'll try to show them all to you.
First of all they have the arch support,
here, I don't know if you can see that.
It's not as pronounced as in the insole
that I use in my shoe.
I've stepped in these once and it wasn't as jarring
as when I first put the insoles
in my shoes and tried them out.
Now an interesting thing here,
you may more easily see that the big toe
has it's own little elevated platform.
By doing that it helps you to walk in a way
that reduces the pain on your foot.
Now i'm not sure if you can see the sole of it here,
it's actually slightly curved,
this is called the 'rocker' design.
It also has some little indentations on it
so it won't be so slippery.
And the one thing I was making most impressed about
that I had no idea about, is in the heel.
I don't know if you can see this
but here's the shoe, this is the inside part of the heel,
that there's actually a punched out material here
to make this a little softer.
When you look at the other side of the heel,
on the outside of your foot,
it isn't there, so this is actually firmer.
And that's by design, because this way your weight
can be taken up on the outside of your foot
but the inside has a little bit of give
because a lot of people who have this pain
that's where it hurts, your heel, right around there.
That's exactly where it hurts on my left foot.
Let's see how they fit and how they look.
My toe's goin up there, big toe.
Okay.
They feel very squishy and maybe it's
cause' i'm on the carpet here.
And a little bit odd because of the design on the bottom,
that they're like a rocker rather than flat.
Let's try it out on the laminate flooring.
Just standing here on the hard surface,
the fact that they're not completely flat
and they have that rocker, actually has me working
to keep my balance front and back.
Almost feels like an exercise I did for plantar fisciitis
when I had it several years ago.
Which was to stand on the edge of a curb
and put your heal off the back of the curb
and let it go down, and to exercise one foot
and then the other.
Almost feels like that kind of exercise built in
by just standing on these.
For walking...
they feel a little bit heavy.
They feel like they're, I don't know how to describe it,
like they're walking a little bit behind me.
I'm not used to wearing sandals but they kind of pull up,
and then they catch up to my foot
before I put it down again.
But see that they sort of stay down as my foot goes up,
and then they catch up.
That's what I mean that it feels like
they're walking behind me.
But there are so many things going on to help my feet out,
I'm not sure exactly which of those is which
with what i'm feeling.
But they feel fine, i'm sure i'm pretty short order.
I can get used to wearing these.
I can tell you that stepping out
of The Healing Soul's sandals right now,
even though I stepped onto the carpet
I immediately felt that spot on my heal hurting,
as soon as I was stepping on the ground again.
So i'll have to investigate that a little bit more
but that's a good sign.
The big test for me, is to spend 30-40 minutes
in the recliner in the living room with the feet up.
Then try stepping into these and seeing how it feels.
I'll come back and report that to you.
Before I go off to 'work so hard' sitting 30-40 minutes
in the recliner, I did want to tell you something
interesting about this company.
The Healing Soul company was started by a woman
who's a doctor and an NBA, she's an orthopedic doctor.
She also served two tours of duty in Iraq.
And coming back to the States, presumably seeing lots
of patients with plantar fisciitis and heal pain,
decided that in addition to the standard medical treatments,
if there was some foot wear that you could wear everywhere
to help out with the condition,
there was really a need for that.
And her entrepreneurial spirit took over
and she decided to start this company.
I love stories like that.
Well, it's tomorrow but i'm back.
I was sort of foolish to think I was going to get
40 uninterrupted minutes in the recliner
until late last night.
So I finally did get to try sitting in the recliner
with my feet up, getting out of the recliner,
and stepping immediately into these flip flops.
Not pain free, my heel always hurts when I do that.
But I would say it was more, subdued.
And again, these aren't magic bullet
that's going to instantly take care of the pain.
What they do is they relieve the pain
so that you can function in your daily life.
And perhaps through the modifications that they made
to how you walk and step based on the elements
built into this flip flop, that they may help your
foot stop re-injuring itself over and over.
Which is why the plantar fisciitis
just doesn't seem to go away.
Since I finished recording yesterday
I did wear these to walk several blocks over
to pick up my daughter from the bus stop.
She thought it was sort of funny to see me
in flip flops because I never wear sandals or flip flops.
But I think they look pretty good
and they are certainly comfortable for walking.
Your foot gets used to that thing that I mentioned
earlier in this video, about how they seem to walk
a little behind you, catch up in mid-air,
and then ready to go down for the next step.
So I've gotten used to them,
I've been wearing them around the house this morning.
When I went to the shower, I thought okay,
well here's a chance to try them out.
Then I thought, are you actually supposed to wear
them into the shower, into the water?
So I checked on the website but it doesn't mention clearly,
whether getting them wet is a problem.
I wouldn't think so because they're
some kind of rubber, and this is neoprene.
So it seemed like it should all be fine,
so I wore them into the shower and that was fine.
It didn't slip on the shower floor,
and my feet didn't slip in here.
Thanks again to the people at The Healing Sole
for sending me these flip flops to try out.
I do like them, I believe they're helping
with some pain relief right now
and i'm going to wear them for a while
and see if they don't help to, again,
keep my foot from re-injuring itself.
They are not inexpensive, the price for these is $124.
I will link to their website where you can buy them
right down below this video and also on Amazon
where they just started selling them.
Whether buying them on their website or on Amazon,
you have to keep in mind that these are shoes,
which means the return policy is that once you've
worn them around, they're yours.
It would be nice if they were sold in more stores locally
but it looks like they're just in Louisianna right now
where the company is located.
But it'd be good if you could go into the store,
try them on, see how they feel,
make sure you're getting the right size,
and then take them home with you.
Hopefully The Healing Sole will get these out
to stores all around the country soon.
But if you can't wait, again,
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