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Every bunion product on the market falls into one of two categories. Both of them are designed to fail. I've been a podiatrist for 14 years. I have bunions myself. And I've spent most of my career recommending products from both categories, watching every one of them end up in a patient's drawer. Here are the two categories. Category one — too rigid to wear. This is the plastic corrector. The hinged brace. The night splint with the velcro straps. The hard shell device that comes with twelve diagrams and a downloadable instruction sheet. These products are doing real corrective work. The mechanism is right. They apply force to the toe and hold it in alignment. The problem is you can't wear them. A plastic corrector starts cutting into your second toe after 90 minutes. A hinged brace doesn't fit inside any shoe ever made. A night splint pulls your foot into a position your whole body fights against, so you can't sleep through the night. So you wear it for an hour. Maybe two on a good day. Then it goes in the drawer. Category two — too small to do anything. This is the toe spacer. The gel pad. The bunion sock. The cushioned wrap. The little squishy thing that slides between your first and second toe. These products are comfortable. You can wear them all day if you want. The problem is they don't do anything. A toe spacer doesn't hold the joint in alignment. It just sits there between two toes. A gel pad doesn't correct the bunion — it pads the bump so your shoe doesn't rub against it. A bunion sock is a sock with a hole cut out of it. None of them apply the corrective tension a bunion actually needs. So you wear them for months. The bunion keeps getting worse. Eventually they go in the drawer too. That's it. That's the entire bunion aisle. Category one works on the right principle but can't be worn. Category two can be worn but doesn't work on the right principle. For 14 years I told my patients that one of those two categories was going to be the answer for them. Try the splint. Try the spacer. Try the gel pad. I'd send them home with a recommendation and watch them limp back into my office six months later with the same bunion, slightly worse. I had the same drawer they did. Plastic correctors. Toe spacers. Night splints. Gel pads. None of them had worked for me either. The reason I couldn't fix my own bunions wasn't because I was missing a product. It was because the products I needed didn't exist. The actual solution required something neither category had figured out how to do. Soft enough to wear for 16 hours a day, in any shoe you already own, without pain or shifting or falling out — and structured enough to apply real corrective tension to the toe joint. A toe separator and a corrector and a sleeve and a gel pad — all in one piece. Not stitched together. Engineered together. That's what I built. The TrueAlign Fabric Sleeve. A soft, stretchable medical fabric sleeve. A built-in toe separator that holds your big toe gently back into alignment. A gel pad placed directly over the bunion joint so it doesn't rub against your shoe. You pull it on with your sock at 6 AM. By 6:15 you forget you're wearing it. It stays on for the next 16 hours while you walk, stand, work. Let me be honest about what it is and what it isn't. It isn't a miracle. It's not going to make the bump on your foot disappear — nothing non-surgical will. Once the bone has shifted, the only way to physically move it back is to cut into the foot. What it does is something category one and category two never could. It applies gentle, sustained corrective tension to the joint for the hours your foot is actually under load. The hours your bunion is actually forming. 16 hours a day, every day. That's how it stops the bunion from getting worse. That's how it eases the pain that's been making your end-of-day a 10-minute recovery on the edge of the bed. If you've got a drawer full of category one and category two products at home — please read the longer article I wrote about why both categories were broken from the start, and what the third option actually looks like. 👇 The article. I wrote it for the woman who's spent the last ten years bouncing between rigid and useless.