Insoles
PCSsole Insoles Review: Everyday Comfort Tested
Ten months in a pair of PCSsole insoles, worn every shift on a concrete floor. What got easier, what did not, and who they are wrong for.
One woman, one sore left heel, and the order in which she bought five things. The insoles came first and stayed.
Ten months in a pair of PCSsole insoles, worn every shift on a concrete floor. What got easier, what did not, and who they are wrong for.
Ten months in one pair of work sneakers, three weeks in a gel pad, and an honest split on where each one actually wins.
A hardware store floor lead on ten months in one pair of PCSsole insoles, what changed, and what she would skip.
One woman, one sore left heel, and the order in which she bought five things. The insoles came first and stayed.
The order I would do it in if I had to start over: notes first, arch height second, the shoe you actually stand in third, and three weeks before you decide anything.
Ten months in one pair of work sneakers, on a concrete floor, with the awkward first week left in.
Seven months of wearing SB SOX compression socks under work sneakers on a concrete floor, with notes on fit, feel, and who they are wrong for.
Seven months of wearing SB SOX compression socks on every shift and plain cotton crew socks on every day off, and an honest note on which one does which job.
Seven months of wearing one pair of toeless ankle sleeves under the same work sneakers, on a concrete floor, ten hours at a time. What I noticed, what took a week to get used to, and who should not bother.
Seven months of wearing compression ankle sleeves under the same work sneakers, on a concrete floor, four days a week. What I noticed, what I will not claim, and who they are wrong for.
Seven months of wearing ankle compression socks under one pair of work sneakers, in the order that made them useful, plus an honest note about the parts they do not do.
Seven months of wearing them under one pair of work sneakers, four shifts a week. What the snug feel actually does, what it does not do, and the two kinds of feet that should spend their money elsewhere.
Eight months under a back office desk, five minutes at lunch. What a wooden roller does for a tired arch, and what it does not do for a heel that hurts at 6 a.m.
I rolled my left heel on a tennis ball for two weeks in February, then bought a wooden roller in March. Here is the honest split, including the two things the ball still does better.
Ten plain reasons a wood roller ended up on the floor by my chair at work, and the two situations where it will not earn its space.
A hardware store office manager on the one small thing that lives under her desk, and what it does and does not do for a sore left heel.
Five minutes at lunch, shoes off, in the one gap in the day that had nothing in it. What I actually do with a foot roller, what it does not do, and the four other things that do the rest of the work.
Eight months, one back office, five minutes at lunch. What the TheraFlow roller did for my feet, what it did not do, and who should keep their money.
Six months with one pair of slides, worn at home only, and an honest account of what they did and did not do for a sore left heel.
One pair is built to put something under your arch. The other is a slab of rubber with a toe post. I wore both for months and each one is better at a different job.
Six months of wearing them on the tile at 5:40 in the morning. What changed, what did not, and what I would skip.
Six months of one pair of slides kept beside the bed, and an honest account of what they did and did not do for a sore left heel.
Five things to check before you buy, from somebody who got it wrong first and keeps her pair beside the bed.
Six months with a pair beside the bed: what the KuaiLu slide does well, where it disappoints, and who should not buy it.
A plain account of nine months with a rubber calf stretcher on the bathroom floor: what it made easier, what it did not, and who should use the wall instead.
Nine months with one and a year with the other. What the device does better, what the wall does better, and why I still use both.
Nine months of daily use on one bathroom floor, ranked by what actually made me keep doing it.
Nine months with a rubber rocker on the bathroom floor, and the honest version of what changed and what did not.
The four minute morning routine I actually kept, in the order I do it, including the parts I got wrong in the first two weeks.
Nine months with a rubber foot rocker on the bathroom tile: what it changed, what it did not, and the three things I wish someone had told me before I ordered it.
Ten months in a pair of PCSsole insoles, worn every shift on a concrete floor. What got easier, what did not, and who they are wrong for.
Ten months in one pair of work sneakers, on a concrete floor, with the awkward first week left in.
Seven months of wearing SB SOX compression socks under work sneakers on a concrete floor, with notes on fit, feel, and who they are wrong for.
Seven months of wearing them under one pair of work sneakers, four shifts a week. What the snug feel actually does, what it does not do, and the two kinds of feet that should spend their money elsewhere.
Eight months under a back office desk, five minutes at lunch. What a wooden roller does for a tired arch, and what it does not do for a heel that hurts at 6 a.m.
Eight months, one back office, five minutes at lunch. What the TheraFlow roller did for my feet, what it did not do, and who should keep their money.
Six months with one pair of slides, worn at home only, and an honest account of what they did and did not do for a sore left heel.
Six months with a pair beside the bed: what the KuaiLu slide does well, where it disappoints, and who should not buy it.
A plain account of nine months with a rubber calf stretcher on the bathroom floor: what it made easier, what it did not, and who should use the wall instead.
Nine months with a rubber foot rocker on the bathroom tile: what it changed, what it did not, and the three things I wish someone had told me before I ordered it.