BraceOn AFO Swedish Drop Foot Stabilizer for Walking and Exercise, Drop Foot Braces for Men, AFO Brace & Foot Drop Braces, Foot Boot for Injured Foot, Men, Left

I have Charcot Marie Tooth (CMT) Disease, which causes a lot of imbalance, high arch, pain, drop foot, and more. I took a chance on these braces (both left and right) as an affordable option to the ones you’d get through an actual doctor (which are custom fit and extraordinary, I myself just haven’t gone yet). Prior these braces I clomped quite a bit and my feet would tire out so fast that I’d have to sit and let my feet relax for a few minutes till I got back to walking. They’d be so weak I couldn’t lift my feet to walk. After the braces, I can still feel my feet being tired (there’s no escaping that), but I can keep walking without worry of my foot dropping and messing up my walk. (Granted my walk is still messed up, but that’s from my condition.) When I push my foot forward and release, the brace immediately brings my foot back into place. I even try to drop my foot behind me as I walk o purposely trip myself, and the brace prevents it. It’s actually pretty remarkable.They fit in my lightweight boots perfectly without trimming (size US Men 10.5), but I did take out all inserts (the initial insert I had already removed and replaced with a dr scholls insert). I do have corrective plastic heel molds, to which I slid into the boot on top of these braces and they fit just fine. I keep both the brace and heel insert in full time, and just take my foot with sock on out. I can’t really say just yet how the front half of my foot is going to feel walking on plastic all day after awhile, but so far it’s just slight discomfort toward the end of the day (like any shoe really). The portion that goes up your thigh, I would recommend high crew socks or just under the knee socks. The top edge of the plastic does rub, but that’s expected. There is no padding, which honestly I don’t think it needs it if you’re wearing socks. Virtually unnoticeable in pants, incredible.The Velcro (generic hook and loop) is okay, there’s extra so be sure to trim it up. They’re held on with some glue, the one already came off. But honestly that’s fine: I intended on replacing them with black straps anyway. I wasn’t sure if the bottom strap was really necessary, but I’ve come to like it. The top strap is a must.All in all, I’d give these a 4.9/5; with that .1 being the very very inconvenient strap issues. The fit, they WORK (the main point), relatively comfortable and unnoticeable, and are a bargain. Even if they loosen up / wear out / break, I’m willing to buy them again because they’re a deal.Miscellaneous context: 6’ 0” male, average build, 185 lbs, 10.5 US men’s shoe, physical activity and exercise level 6 to 7 out of 10, CMT Disease. Real review, not a bot or paid. Hopefully this helps others out.

If you need an AFO, do not buy this because it’s weak. It will not help you and it slips around. Poor construction, bad material and useless.

This light-weight brace helps keep my foot positioned correctly as I walk, without unduly limiting the action of my ankle. I was concerned that the foot plate would be too flat, since my orthotic would not fit either inside or beneath it in my athletic shoe, but it has enough built-in arch support to prevent my plantar's fasciitis from kicking up (though it might not be the right amount for everyone). I do want a little padding from ankle socks when I wear it. And I put some moleskin cloth on the inside of the calf panel to keep my skin from sticking to the plastic. But overall, it's relatively easy-on, easy-off, particularly when I leave the brace in the shoe and simply unfasten both the shoe and the velcro straps to slip my foot out. In putting it back on, the calf portion of the brace acts as a kind of shoehorn, letting me slip the foot back into place before retying the shoe and fastening the two velcro straps. The straps are quite long; I shortened mine and added another bit of velcro to avoid having extra-long pieces flapping around between my calves.

I would’ve given this a five stars if it had came with some foam padding at the very top of the brace. Since I have a very sensitive and numbing sensation on my calves, this brace dug into my skin and caused a wound. The brace did the trick, but if it had a little more padding or if I would add some padding before wearing them again, it’s a good brace.

It was to tight around ha calf needs to have padding

Good sturdy splint

For two days this brace did a good job on my drop foot. However on the third day when I unraveled the velcro strap. a 2" X 2" piece of flesh came off my leg with it. I bleed all over the carpet and finally wrapped the wound with gauze and hoped for the best. I am in the 3 rd week since the injury and still await the raw flesh to heal. I've applied antibiotic cream and have been wrapping it in hopes that it will not became infected. It still stings like hell, but does appear to be slowly healing. My leg swelling has gone down a bit also. So sorry everyone to have to prepare this review. The product is well made and stable and for the first day or two was great, but please Mr. AFO, design some other type of fabric strap so your other customers don't possibly go through what I have gone through. I suppose when my leg completely heals, I'll try the brace again and be sure that the velcro doesn't touch the skin, and cover the leg with a fabric first before installing it.

The braces were for my foot drop, and while they're well made, clearly supportive, and definitely affordable, the quality control could use some work-Shown in the photos, you can see that the left brace had a single strap at the top, but the right brace had two straps- one near the ankle, and another at the top.All straps are merely glued onto the plastic brace with industrial strength adhesive. I'm not sure what this means in terms of strength or use and wear and tear from prolonged usage.There is nothing to hold the foot into the brace- I'd have to install more velcro straps, using similar adhesive or even rivets to hold the velcro straps in. The provided straps are far, far too long, and were perhaps intended so users could cut the straps shorter when needed. Understood, but as they are, they are ridiculously long.As they are, and as they're intended, they're perfectly fine. They're sturdy, flexible, comfortable and easy to customize for each individual's specific needs.Note that I did take out the original shoe's inserts- the soft, spongy footbed insert/insole in order to get the braces to fit inside my shoes.