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PT told me something I didn't want to hear: "Stop beating your foot up with the Theragun. The fascia doesn't want more percussion — it wants blood flow." That single sentence saved my foot and cost me $180. I'd been using mine on my arch after every run for months. Sometimes it helped for an hour. Then the pain came right back. I thought I was doing it wrong, using the wrong attachment, wrong pressure. So I bought the correct cone tip. Watched every Therabody tutorial I could find. Still woke up every morning and the first three steps felt like glass. Went to PT. Told her I had a Theragun, I was using it religiously. She didn't tell me to stop using it on my calves. She told me to stop using it on my foot. "The foot is a terrible place for percussion. Hit a bony area wrong and you can flare it for weeks. And even when you do it right, you're treating the symptom. The fascia heals when blood flow gets restored to the tissue. Percussion doesn't do that." I went home and searched. Found a thread where a guy said the exact same thing: his massage gun was fine on calves, did nothing for the foot. But his TENS unit was "wonderful." He'd stumbled into it by accident. That word stuck with me. TENS. Electrical nerve stimulation. Circulation-first, not percussion-first. I almost didn't buy the Soleus. Honestly thought it looked too simple. A fabric wrap. No intimidating attachments. No 3200 RPMs. But I read how it actually works: heat to open the vessels, vibration low enough that it promotes circulation instead of trauma, EMS to wake up the nerves that go quiet when circulation is poor. The whole thing is built around what the foot actually needs — not what feels aggressive. I used it the first night for 15 minutes before bed. The next morning the first step still hurt. But the first two seconds, not the first two minutes. Four weeks in. Running again. Still have the Theragun. Still use it on my calves, hamstrings, quads. It's a great muscle tool. It just was never built for what my foot needed. Different tissue. Different problem. Different fix. If you're in the same spot — have a massage gun, use it on your foot, get temporary relief at best — tap the link. Soleus has 50% off right now. 30-day money back if it doesn't work. Nothing to lose except the limp.