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If you're icing your feet every night — this might be hard to read. I did it for two years. Frozen water bottle from the freezer, under my arch, rolling back and forth while we watched TV. Every single night. It was the only thing that gave me any relief. My physical therapist told me to do it. My podiatrist told me to do it. Reddit told me to do it. Then I read something that made me feel sick. Ice constricts blood vessels. The plantar fascia — that thick band on the bottom of your foot that's causing all the pain — already receives less blood supply than almost any tissue in your body. It's one of the hardest tissues to heal BECAUSE of poor circulation. And every night, I was pressing a frozen bottle against it and cutting off the little blood flow it had left. That's why mornings never got better. That's why the pain always came back. I was numbing it at night and starving it at the same time. Everything I tried — the ice, the compression socks, the orthotics, the splints — was mechanical. Supporting. Bracing. Compressing. Numbing. Not one of those things increases blood flow. What finally changed everything was the opposite approach. A foot therapy wrap that uses heat to dilate the blood vessels in the foot. Compression to physically push blood through those vessels. And nerve stimulation to activate the nerves that had gone quiet from oxygen deprivation. You wrap it around the arch. 15 minutes before bed. Then you sleep. The first morning I didn't grab the nightstand, I didn't even realize it. I just stood up and walked. My husband noticed before I did. The frozen water bottle is still in my freezer. It doesn't have its own spot anymore. 50% OFF right now -- link below