Over the past eight years I have had terrible foot, knee and hip problems. This involved taking a lot of pain medicine, getting cortisone shots, seeing physicians, and doing therapy. I finally turned to alternative medicine. The sciatica recurred several times, but was controlled by diet and stretching. Last summer I fell and injured my hamstring. I went through months of therapy, and the therapist damaged both of my knees. The orthopedic surgeon said I needed knee surgery on both knees and gave me more pills.

Over the past eight years, I have worked as a marketing director in the health care field. There have been times when I went to call on a hospital and could hardly get out of the hospital and back to my car. I have taken about every anti-inflammatory there is and some that have been removed from the market. I see a massage therapist on a monthly basis and am usually in pain.

One year ago, my daughter told me about some crazy-looking shoes that a friend of hers sold in Overland Park, Kansas. I finally broke down and checked them out. Crazy was not the word for them. I did some research about the shoes and finally bought a pair of the sandals. My knees were so swollen and my gate was terrible, so I only lasted about two days in the shoes. After several months my husband suggested that I try to wear the ¡°crazy expensive shoes¡± that I had purchased. I gave myself two weeks to wear them every day. I purchased a pair of clogs for winter, and just last month purchased a pair of tennis shoes, so I can start walking on the treadmill until spring arrives and I can walk outside.

I can now last at least eight hours a day, marketing. I can enjoy the weekends with my husband shopping, site-seeing, or whatever. I am planning on riding my bike on the bike trails in the spring and I am looking at playing golf again. I am down to one Aleve¢ç a day and am hoping to eventually get off of that. I occasionally get brave and try to wear my regular shoes for a short period of time, and then I have to pay the price of pain.

At first everyone laughed and made fun of how high I bounce—-all the ¡°spring¡± jokes. But now, being able to join in marketing events, walk, be out of most of my pain, and do trade shows for 10 hours and be able to walk out at the end of the day, is wonderful.

I market for your company every day—-to the health care employees. A physicians¡¯ office of 25 employees let me do a luncheon for them because they wanted to find out more about my shoes. People stop me on the street, at trade shows, hospitals, and so forth just to see what my shoes are all about and where they can get them. The younger generation thinks that I am cool, and yesterday at a of meeting of 60 health care professionals, an older couple wanted to know where I got them—-she was 80 years old and was down in her hips and had not been able to walk for a year. I am your walking testimonial that they work. My sciatica has not given me trouble in six or seven months.

I do wish they came in dress shoes!!!

 

Diana
Lenexa,  KS   USA

 

We were in the Kentucky hills this last August, specifically at the site of the Battle of Camp Wildcat. This is a very rough area, with sheer cliffs, steep hills, lots of trees, practically no roads and only rocky, dirt paths. It has not changed appreciably since 1862. There is one trail that leads through the hollow and up the mountain spine to the top, where the Union forces had dug trenches (which are still there).

Four of us started on the 3¨ö-mile trail. Two dropped out at the one-mile point; the other two, including me, went all the way to the top. This picture of me was taken there, and gives you an idea of the terrain. Unfortunately, there is so much broken ground, leaves, rocks and sticks, that you can't even see the shoes.

But since the most frequent question I get on your shoes is, "Don't they make you unsteady?" it is nice to show you what kind of ground you can cross with these shoes, and they actually are more stable than conventional shoes due to the firm heel support. . . . I enjoy telling people just how versatile and effective these shoes are and being able to prove it with the little story above.

I have been wearing Z-CoiL¢ç footwear now for something like two years and find they hold up very well - I haven't even had to replace the heels, which I hear is unusual. Even more, I am finding that when I am not wearing Z-CoiL¢ç footwear, my back and foot problems are much less severe. While I wouldn't say the Z-CoiL¢ç shoes are healing these problems, I do feel that the rest and support they give do help in the healing process.

 

Bill
Orange,  CA   USA