Heel Blister Patches (2 Patches) | Tennis Shoes, Athletes, Runners, High Heels, Dress Shoes

Long story short, these things are no gimmick, and have saved a pair of shoes I was expecting to have to retire after a couple of hikes. I was skeptical, but I'm a believer now.I have terrible feet - I pronate badly and have big heel spurs from a lifetime spent in ski boots. This makes finding shoes that work for hiking without blisters a real challenge, and I usually have to run a mid-height boot to hold my heel in the pocket with lacing from above. I've been getting into mountain running, and after my old standbys that are discontinued finally crapped out on me, I found a pair of La Sportivas that seemed to work on short runs and hikes - up until I used them for a longer approach to some spring skiing and started getting bad blisters on my heels.I'd given up and was ready to try another pair of shoes that may have caused the same issue, and then tried these out not expecting much. I'm blown away. I've put in a couple of 20 mile running/fast hiking days in these shoes now without any blister issues, and the patches are holding strong on the shoes. You can feel the movement, but there is so little friction it doesn't even cause a hot spot. Definitely worth the minimal investment.

Although these heel "pads" weren't what I THOUGHT I was looking for, they worked out great! The backs of my heels protrude somewhat more than most, and I usually wear out the fabric at the rear of my athletic shoes before anything else on them dies, so initially I was really just looking for a way to repair my favorite old pair of sneaks and extend their service life. These pads did the trick - just not quite in the way that I expected.The surfaces of these self-adhesive pads that will be against your socks are ultra-slick and smooth - almost no friction at all. So I'm going to order more and put them in my next pair of athletic shoes when they're brand-new, because I think that they will protect the fabric in the heels and make them last longer, and the slick surface will make my shoes so much easier to kick off at the end of the day.These are sold as "Heel Blister Prevention Patches", and they probably work really well for that, since there are two ways to prevent blisters: 1) don't allow any relative motion between your foot and the shoe, and 2) allow smooth sliding with almost no friction between your foot and the shoe. My local drugstore has patches that do the former, but these "Engo" patches take the latter approach. The big plus is that these patches let you slip out of your shoes at the end of the day without even untying them first! I have elastic laces in my athletic shoes to prevent pressure points on the tops of my (rather high) arches, and the combination of these pads and the elastic laces has turned my sneaks into a pair of very comfortable slip-ons! Although I no longer wear my sneaks while working up on the roof of our house, because they're now so easy to slip out of (bit of a safety issue there), I really love wearing my athletic shoes much more than before.Great product! I just wish I'd learned about it years ago, and that there was a cheaper way to buy six pairs at a time! Guess I'm going to have to buy the 30-pack for fifty bucks and give some to my friends.

I wear the Nike Tiempo Legend 7, and these soccer cleats are notorious for causing blisters on the back heel. These heel blister prevention patches solved that problem instantly. The moment my blisters healed, I taped these on the back of my soccer cleats and have never experienced any more blisters. Been playing with them for about 3 months now. I removed 1 star from this review because they tend to fall off after a month of playing (I play twice a week). To overcome this problem, I super-glued a second set of patches and they haven't detached since.

Don’t know that I ever wrote a product review but this one is exceptional. I spent decades in the army ruck’ing more miles than I care to recall, where the heck were these things then?! Seriously, I have severe bone spurs on both heels and as an avid walker (roughly 50 miles/week) was wearing holes in the heels of some good walking shoes nearly monthly. Useless at that point so had to discard them with plenty of tread remaining on the soles$$$😫.I tried these as a last resort based on reviews (I was skeptical). Get rid of the moleskin and any other stuff you have tried, these are phenomenal. VERY sticky, durable and can’t even tell they are there. Apply them anywhere inside your shoes per the instructions, you will not be disappointed especially at the price, well worth it! I expect to get double the miles from my shoes which do the math pretty good deal👍🏻.I am not a “paid reviewer” or whatever they call it no one asked me to do this, I just appreciate a great product when I spend my hard earned $$ on something. Well done Engo!

I purchased these patches for putting on my running shoes. The product is easy to apply, it apparently holds well to the shoes, is thin enough not to feel them inside nor change gait, and works great for hot spot/blister relief, if you keep them dry, because they came off the minute I stepped on water. It was the second time I was running with the shoes I applied them to. It had rained during the night and I ended up stepping on water when I went for a run in the morning. One step! It wasn't deep water, but as it splashed, the shoes got wet. Not soggy, but they did get wet. After about a quart of a mile I was feeling something rubbing inside my shoes. I had to stop and check. The patch had totally come off, which was very frustrating, since it was written "durable" and "waterproof".I guess the material is waterproof in the sense that it won't absorb any moist from your feet, but the product as it is intended to be used is definitely not waterproof.