Hey


I was in an ortho boot with an air pump and everything after my break in June of 2006. I was in the boot from about July till the very end of November. To tell you the truth, it wasn't very comfy at all. At first when I got it (before dx with rsd) my foot was tiny. Then slowly, the boot was becoming smaller (from swelling) and then I got out of it in December when rsd spread to other leg and I was wheelchair bound. Then shortly after that, I tried to go back into the boot and managed to for like a week which wasn't very easy. Then I had a bad setback (severe allergic reaction, steven johnsons syndrome) that caused my foot to turn black, blue, green, and every color imaginable and it swelled up like 4 times its size. With rsd ontop of all of that, I thought I was gonna die. I stopped wearing the boot after that and just wore REALLY fuzzy socks cause I didn't want anyone to see my foot looking like that and my other foot kinda looking almost the same. My feet are still kinda swollen so I still can't really wear the boot. Excluding the swelling and allergic reaction, the boot didn't harm my rsd.

I do think that if you are incapable of wearing anything else to protect your foot(feet), then the boot helps with protection and support and desensitization as well. Just make sure to get a big enough size.