"Pro-Tec Metatarsal Pads, Forefoot Support, Metatarsalgia Pain Relief, Foot Support, Ball of Foot Support, Men & Women, Pain Relief, Easy to Use, Working Out."

These hurt my feet at first and now I hate going without them! I say this because don’t give up on them the first few times you use them. It takes some adjustment but they really do help if you get pain in your metatarsals like me!

I am VERY glad that I took the time to look at reviews before making my purchase. I *highly* recommend these because of the thickness and quality!! A runner on here loved them, and I knew they understood HOW they are supposed to work to be effective. My podiatrist said that patients so easily give up on metatarsal pads because they are painful. He explained that the foot needs proper time to adjust to the new support for them to work effectively as they are designed. This make take up to two weeks. So, for two weeks I put my big pants on and toughed it out, and my feet are finally happy with great support. My prominent metatarsal head does not hurt now. I am in steel toed work boots for up to 10 hours each day, walking on uneven stones and rocks. After I found the correct placement, I taped them to my Prostep insoles so they had no chance of moving around in warm boots. A+++

I have metatarsalgia.They work.Position - I'm an ultra perfectionist and your feet may not be identical, believe it or not. So finding the right position took me a while personally.Adhesion - I saw complaints about the adhesion. There's two obvious ways to get around it. You can use a contact cement and be careful not to get it anywhere but directly where the pad will sit.Or you can do what I did. I stuck it under there insole. It makes it seem bigger than it is but it hasn't bothered me. Doing so solves the adhesion issue and the transition is smooth. You don't feel ridges or anything. It feels like my insoles naturally have a support there rather than I've added something.

When they adhere, they work great, last quite a while. But sometimes, one just doesn't stick and I have to throw it out before it is ever used. Disappointing quality.

Way too bulky and hard. Felt like I was running on a couple of rocks. I had to stop midway through my run and sit down on the curb, take off my shoes and rip them out on the first run I tried them on. Unfortunately, now I have sticky spot on the insoles of my new running shoes - so now I have to deal with that. Might work for others but a big NO for me.

These are really small ! And hard, too. I don't see what this would help with.

I have recently been diagnosed with Morton’s neuroma and afternoon weeks of crippling pain in my foot and not being able to wear heels of any height, I tried these last night. I only wore one on the foot I have the neuroma in. I didn’t use the adhesive, just put it in my sock and then put on three in. Heeled boots. I was amazed!!! It felt a little odd at first simply because I wasn’t used to it, but my foot never had the first twinge!!! I’m a bargain shopper so I was leaning toward the cheaper pads but they looked so thin I figured I’d be throwing my money away. These sold me on the visible thickness. I love how these worked so much that I’m ordering more today. My foot felt normal last night and I was able to dress as I usually would instead of wearing flats or tennis shoes. Btw, a chiropractor diagnosed my neuroma and after adjustments, helped to decrease the pain while wearing flat shoes. I recommend chiropractic adjustments and these pads if you want to feel normal again!!!!Btw, I purchased a couple of different styles (Full and partial insole, etc) and options from different brands and these are the best ones I purchased.

Once I got the pads in the right spot, they have significantly reduced the pain/inflammation in that area of my foot. I had my PT place them. Went to see my podiatrist today, and he recommended I get more for my other orthotics, rather than going through the company they use for orthotics. I thought it would be better to have them built in, but he said these were very sturdy, won't collapse, and the sticky is SOLID.I will say that I wasn't able to go straight to wearing them full time. Took a few days to break them in and get adjusted.