ENGO Heel Blister Prevention Patches (2 Patches)

Blister Prevention Patches I bought these after suffering with recurring heel blisters. I read lots around the subject on a blister prevention website which offered great advice and a variety of options to try including these. I decided they were worth a go. Wow! What a difference - firstly, you need to understand what this product is. The patch does not provide any cushioning and is a very thin, smooth patch fitted directly to the inner heel area on the shoe which effectively reduces the friction which causes the skin to blister. (Counter intuitive to me initially as I felt the firmer the shoe gripped my foot the better!) By allowing a small amount of movement between the shoe and sock the friction is dramatically lessened. I generally walk approx 4.5 miles each morning and today I was able to do so for the first time in ages without any discomfort. This appears to be the answer I was looking for. Do your research and I hope it helps you too.

Although these heel "pads" weren't what I THOUGHT I was looking for, they worked out great! The backs of my heels protrude somewhat more than most, and I usually wear out the fabric at the rear of my athletic shoes before anything else on them dies, so initially I was really just looking for a way to repair my favorite old pair of sneaks and extend their service life. These pads did the trick - just not quite in the way that I expected. The surfaces of these self-adhesive pads that will be against your socks are ultra-slick and smooth - almost no friction at all. So I'm going to order more and put them in my next pair of athletic shoes when they're brand-new, because I think that they will protect the fabric in the heels and make them last longer, and the slick surface will make my shoes so much easier to kick off at the end of the day. These are sold as "Heel Blister Prevention Patches", and they probably work really well for that, since there are two ways to prevent blisters: 1) don't allow any relative motion between your foot and the shoe, and 2) allow smooth sliding with almost no friction between your foot and the shoe. My local drugstore has patches that do the former, but these "Engo" patches take the latter approach. The big plus is that these patches let you slip out of your shoes at the end of the day without even untying them first! I have elastic laces in my athletic shoes to prevent pressure points on the tops of my (rather high) arches, and the combination of these pads and the elastic laces has turned my sneaks into a pair of very comfortable slip-ons! Although I no longer wear my sneaks while working up on the roof of our house, because they're now so easy to slip out of (bit of a safety issue there), I really love wearing my athletic shoes much more than before. Great product! I just wish I'd learned about it years ago, and that there was a cheaper way to buy six pairs at a time! Guess I'm going to have to buy the 30-pack for fifty bucks and give some to my friends.

Have been using these for several years now, and not only do they help with improving comfort and preventing blisters, they help avoid the wear and tear that causes the inside heel fabric to tear itself apart and cause discomfort. For their price, and the extra life they give on pair of runners, they really offer great bang for buck.

I run at least 10km daily, I was having issues with friction against my heels causing painful blisters and holes in the backs of my shoes making the blisters worse, I bought these and put them over exactly where the holes were starting where my heel rubs. I have had them in about 2 months and haven't had an issue since! I see some people commenting on them peeling at the corners, mine haven't budged but I did also cut mine in half to make it smaller because I didn't think I needed it that big, maybe that's why mine haven't peeled and have laid flat. Highly recommend!

Expensive for what they are. Tricky to peel off backing before being fixed into place inside heel of shoe. They have been effective and pretty hard wearing. In my case I used the patch to reduce friction between shoe and a heel prominence. The reason they probably worked (in my view) is as follows: I was getting a heel blister possibly because a prominence on my heel meant that all the friction required to lift the shoe heel off the ground at each step was concentarted locally on the prominence and therefore focused too much of the shear force between my outer skin and subcutaneous area, leading to a breakdown of fascia and consequent blister. By reducing friction between shoe and heel prominence, the task of lifting the shoe heel at each step was transferred from the prominence to a wider area of my heel so that shear forces were more distributed and less likely to break down the fascia below outer skin.