As a result of a ruptured disc in my lower back, I have some lasting nerve and muscle damage. I now suffer with a disability known as ¡°dropped foot¡± or ¡°foot drop.¡± I cannot lift my left foot at all, must concentrate on every single step I take, walk with a limp, and sometimes stagger. My whole left side takes an extra jolt every time I put my left foot down when I¡¯m walking. Chronic pain becomes a constant companion. To avoid pain, I walk as little as possible.

I would buy good running shoes with thick cushioning in the heel. The shoes would last two months, at the most, before the cushioning in the left shoe was mashed down from the pounding. I also tried every gel and cushion insole available.

I decided to try Z-CoiL¢ç shoes. I took a pair home and wore them for four hours that evening. I was torn between crying for joy and shouting from the rooftops because of the difference these shoes made for me in every step I took. Usually it was pain that kept me tossing and turning through the night, but this night it was excitement over my new shoes. I was NOT in pain and I truly felt like I had been given a new lease on life. I decided that I would buy more styles of Z-CoiL¢ç shoes and I would live in them.

Z-CoiL¢ç shoes both increase my stability and significantly reduce the impact of stepping down. I can now walk down stair steps without holding on to both banisters! The limp is barely perceptible and I walk with FAR less pain and with more balance, including on uneven surfaces like gravel. I can walk faster and be on my feet longer. I do not have to concentrate on every step now.

I wear no other type of shoe. Z-CoiL¢ç shoes are on my feet from the time I get up until the time I go to bed. I recently wore other shoes and I felt hobbled, limping and shuffling. I felt like a cripple again, struggling with every step. I had actually forgotten just how disabled I am when I¡¯m not wearing Z-CoiL¢ç shoes.

Based on my own experience, I can highly recommend Z-CoiL¢ç shoes to anyone with dropped foot. I would be very surprised if the shoes didn¡¯t make a significant difference in the quality of their health and life.

Susan
Stafford,  VA   USA

 

I have several congenital birth defects. The worst is my feet. Both of my feet were so badly clubbed, the big toes and index toes rubbed my heels. Consequently I had three corrective surgeries on each foot. Next, muscle grafts were added to my Achilles tendons on both legs. Then both legs were broken below the knees and reset, as they rotated in. My pelvis and hips also rotate in. I spent years in hip casts and braces to help correct the anomalies. I was a patient of the Scottish Rite Hospital for Children for 19 years. I had a total of 24 corrective surgeries.

As a result of the birth defects, I have slight scoliosis. Three discs in my lower back are herniated, along with two in my neck. Walking and running have been very painful for years, so much so that I took 2000 mg of Naproxen¢ç daily, plus other pain-relief medications.

I have had my Z-CoiL¢ç shoes for two months, [and] . . . I have not had 2000 mg of Naproxen¢ç total in two months. I walk two miles daily and that is building. I've lost 15 lbs. without making any other change, such as diet. I am a living testimonial that these shoes really work!

I bought two pairs: one pair of sandals and one of tennis shoes. I have given all of my other women¡¯s shoes away and don't give a flip that they look orthopedic. They are real conversation starters! I've been able to refer a lot of people to these shoes and everyone loves them. Next I will be purchasing a pair of clogs for dress wear. I'm sold. I'll never go back to pretty shoes again. It's not worth the pain.

The very best thing next to being almost completely pain-free is I no longer need help setting up my face-painting booth at local carnivals, fairs, and art shows. I can now paint my windows and signs without experiencing a week of agony after a day of painting.

THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!!!

Freida L.
Megargel,  TX   USA

 

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