Buyer Beware: Bunion Bootie Fails to Make the Grade

Protect your bunion.

Straighten your valgus deformity.

Rehabilitate your hallux valgus.

This is exactly what the Bunion Bootie website suggests is possible with their .4mm bootie.

Visit Amazon to purchase the Bunion Bootie and it states, “Bunion Bootie is the complete package; protective, corrective, practical, comfortable, & discrete!” 

Let’s take a closer look, one claim at a time.

Then, we’ll consider whether these claims are simply too good to be true.

First Claim: Protection

Bunion sufferers know all about the friction this deformity creates inside a shoe.

Friction creates heat, tissue breakdown and blisters making an already painful condition worse.

We give the Bunion Bootie an A+ for protection.

This bootie is sleek enough to be worn under a sock providing an additional .4mm layer of protection against friction. 

Love it!

Second Claim: Straighten

Bunions are a sign your foot is not properly handling the stress of your body weight and gravity while standing.

This means, unless the proposed treatment can improve the way your foot handles gravity, is has ZERO potential to straighten the valgus stress responsible for your bunion deformity long-term.

According to the manufacturer, “By anchoring the Bootie around the ankle, the big toe is gently pulled away from the other toes, often improving balance and restoring a more natural alignment.” 

The Bunion Bootie may certainly help straighten the big toe, but only while seated or lying down.

Pointless.

As soon as you stand up…BAM!

Gravity!

In other words, the soft flexible nature of this product can never support your feet in their optimal arch-up alignment.

Without restoring proper alignment to the foot, you will never change how it handles gravity.

We give the Bunion Bootie a F for straighten.

Third Claim: Rehabilitate

Rehabilitate means to bring back to a normal, healthy condition.

Remember gravity?

Exactly.

We also give the Bunion Bootie a F for rehabilitate.

The Bunion Bootie can not rehabilitate your bunion because it fails to address the cause of your bunion.

Score: 33% (1 claim true, 2 false)

Buyer Beware: The claims being made by Bunion Bootie are clearly too good to be true!

Grade: F

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