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How thousands of plantar fasciitis sufferers are finally walking pain-free.

Summary: for 30 years, Dr. Susan Whitmore prescribed the treatments every podiatrist prescribes. She trusted them because that's what medicine teaches. Then she got plantar fasciitis herself, and decided to do the research nobody else had.

If you've had plantar fasciitis for months or years, you already know the feeling.

The first steps out of bed that make you dread waking up. The treatments that worked for a few weeks, then stopped. The sinking realization that maybe this is just your life now.

I know exactly how that feels.

Dr. Whitmore portrait, warm natural light

Three years ago I sat on the edge of my bed at five in the morning, trying to work up the courage to stand. I'd been a podiatrist for thirty years. I'd told thousands of patients what plantar fasciitis felt like.

I had no idea.

I did what everyone does.

At first, I stretched.

Calf and arch stretch against a wall, home setting

I had been prescribing stretches to my patients for 30 years, so I stretched every morning and every night. I stretched until the calves and the arch screamed at me to stop. I waited for the mornings to get easier.

They didn't.

I tried the frozen water bottle.

Frozen water bottle rolling under a bare foot

Everyone who has had plantar fasciitis has tried this one. You fill an old Poland Spring with water, you freeze it overnight, and in the morning you roll it under your foot while you drink your coffee.

It helps, for about an hour. Then it goes soft and warm. Then the pain comes back. I still have the bottle in my freezer. I don't know why I keep it.

I bought the insoles.

Three pairs of orthotic insoles lined up

Three different pairs, none of them cheap. I wore them in my slippers, in my walking shoes, in the pair of sneakers I bought specifically because a podiatrist friend told me they were the best on the market. My feet still hurt.

I did physical therapy. I iced. I wore a night splint that looked like a medieval torture device and made my husband laugh every time I put it on.

I stopped laughing with him.

And then, because I was desperate, I got a cortisone injection. For about 5 weeks, I thought it had worked. I got out of bed one morning and took my first steps without flinching, and I actually cried. Quiet, relieved crying. I called my sister. I told her I finally had my life back.

The pain came back on a Tuesday.

Empty bedroom window, early morning light

I sat on the edge of my bed that morning and I was not sad. I was not frustrated. I was something emptier than that.

I had spent thirty years as a podiatrist. I had just spent eighteen months running every treatment I used to prescribe on my own foot.

And none of it had healed a thing.

That was the morning I realized nobody in my profession had ever actually tried to fix plantar fasciitis. We had only ever tried to manage it.

And I decided I was done managing it.

The thing hiding in my old textbook.

I did something that, looking back, feels almost embarrassing. I pulled down one of my old anatomy textbooks from medical school. I opened it and started reading like a first-year student.

And there it was. In diagrams I had seen forty years ago and forgotten.

Anatomy textbook open to plantar fascia diagram

The plantar fascia has almost no blood supply. It's one of the least vascularized tissues in the human body.

Hold out your hand and look at the back of it. You can see the veins right under the skin. Now look at the bottom of your foot. You don't see any, because there aren't many. There never were.

Every step you take creates microscopic tears in the fascia. In any other tissue, blood would rush in, deliver repair materials, and the tears would heal overnight.

Microscopic tears in the plantar fascia

But the fascia has no blood to rush in. So the tears don't heal. They pile up into scar tissue. The scar tissue tears again the next morning when you stand up. The cycle repeats. Every day. For years.

That's the broken glass feeling.

Scar tissue in the plantar fascia — the broken glass feeling

It's not inflammation. It's not overuse. It's scar tissue that never got the blood it needed to heal.

And suddenly every treatment I had tried on myself made sense:

Why nothing had worked

  • ×
    STRETCHINGPulls on tissue that's already torn, tearing it further.
  • ×
    ICENumbs the pain for an hour, but doesn't heal anything.
  • ×
    ORTHOTICSShift pressure off the heel without ever touching the fascia.
  • ×
    CORTISONESilences inflammation, but the starved tissue underneath doesn't change.
  • ×
    PHYSICAL THERAPYStrengthens the muscles around the fascia, not the fascia itself.
Failed treatments — working around the problem

Every one of them was working around the problem. Not on it.

Some people do eventually heal. A tiny amount of blood does reach the fascia every day. If you stay off your feet long enough, and if you're lucky enough not to re-injure it, that trickle can slowly repair the damage over time.

That is the entire treatment plan medicine has been giving plantar fasciitis sufferers for decades. Rest, and hope.

So I started reading everything I could find about how the body forces blood into tissues that don't want to cooperate. Burn recovery. Diabetic wound care. Cardiac rehab.

Stack of open medical journals on a desk

Fields that had nothing to do with feet, but everything to do with circulation.

That is where I found it. A mechanism buried in research from a completely unrelated branch of medicine. Overlooked by every podiatrist, including me.

When I traced it back, tested it, and tried it on my own foot, my mornings started changing within two weeks.

The answer came from a different problem.

For decades, researchers in burn recovery and diabetic wound care had been trying to get blood to reach damaged tissue that had lost its circulation. The challenge was the same one I was facing with my fascia.

How do you force blood into tissue that can't get it on its own?

Their answer was vibration.

Not the big, aggressive kind you feel in a massage chair. A very specific, gentle frequency.

When you vibrate tissue at the right rate, the capillaries inside it physically open wider.

Close-up microscopy of capillaries, soft focus

Blood flows through. Vessels that were barely functioning start carrying real volume again.

Used consistently on damaged tissue, this is what allows the body to finally repair what it couldn't reach before.

The question was: what frequency?

I took my retirement savings and put them into testing. I did the research I wished my profession had done decades ago.

I looked up how many Americans were dealing with plantar fasciitis right now. Two million. Two million people being told to stretch, ice, and wait. I wanted to build them a real answer.

So I tested. For months. Dozens of frequencies.

43 hertz.
Low enough to feel calm on the skin.
High enough to reach the capillaries inside the fascia and open them up.
For the first time, my starved fascia was getting real blood flow.

2M
Americans with PF
30 yrs
In practice
43 Hz
The frequency
43 Hz — the frequency

But I needed more. The damage had been piling up for three years. I needed to accelerate what the blood was doing once it got there.

That is where the cream came in.

So I formulated a topical blend with three documented vasodilators. Camphor and menthol dilate the blood vessels even further. Methyl salicylate penetrates through the skin and reaches the fascia directly, carrying repair compounds to the exact tissue that needed them.

Hand applying cream to arch of foot
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The cream doesn't sit on the surface. It travels in on the blood.

And the cold? The cold was for the mornings. The mornings when you still need the pain to stop right now, while the tissue underneath is being rebuilt.

That was the system.

The three-part system

  • 1
    VIBRATION AT 43 HzTo open the capillaries inside the starved fascia.
  • 2
    A TOPICAL CREAMTo drive repair materials in on the blood.
  • 3
    COLD THERAPYTo manage the pain in the meantime.

I had every piece of what my fascia needed. So I started building it with my husband.

Two weeks after I finished building it, I stepped out of bed and didn't wince for the first time in a year and a half. I almost cried.

We called it CryoFlex.

CryoFlex — the at-home recovery system. Fits in your palm.

It's a small handheld device that fits in your palm. Inside the head is a phase-change liquid that you freeze overnight, the same way you'd freeze an ice pack.

In the morning, you twist the head on, apply a small amount of the recovery cream to your arch and heel, and glide the device over your foot for 15 minutes.

That's it. That's the whole routine.

Person using CryoFlex on their foot, seated on edge of bed

The vibration runs at 43 hertz. You feel it as a gentle hum. The cold head stays cold for the whole session. The cream goes on light, absorbs quickly, and carries the repair compounds down into the fascia while the vibration is opening the capillaries to receive them.

You can do it sitting on the edge of your bed before you put your feet down.

Within two weeks, you start feeling real relief. Within thirty days, most people are done.

That is when you put CryoFlex in a drawer and forget about it, the way you forget about any tool you don't need anymore.

I healed in about a month. I haven't used it since.

Woman walking in a park, morning, confident stride

My mornings are ordinary now. I get out of bed, I walk to the kitchen, and I don't think about my feet.

Since we released it, thousands of people have done the same thing. They healed what their doctors told them they would have to live with, and then they went back to their lives.

What people think about CryoFlex

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Margaret R.
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Margaret R. Verified Buyer · Ohio

"I'd been limping for almost two years. I honestly bought this expecting nothing. Three weeks in, I walked the dog a full mile without stopping. I cried in the driveway."

Diane T.
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Diane T. Verified Buyer · Texas

"I'm a nurse. On my feet 12 hours a day. I tried orthotics, physical therapy, two cortisone shots. CryoFlex is the first thing that has actually made my first steps in the morning feel normal again."

Linda S.
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Linda S. Verified Buyer · Florida

"Day 9 and I can stand up from the couch without holding the armrest. I'd almost forgotten what that felt like. My husband noticed before I did."

Robert K.
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Robert K. Verified Buyer · Arizona

"I was skeptical about the vibration thing. After 30 days I'm doing my morning walks again. It's in a drawer now, exactly like she said."

This is what I want for you.

Not another product that manages the pain for an hour. Not another protocol that asks you to rest and hope.

An actual way to heal the tissue that has been hurting you for months or years — 30 days from today, in your own home.

Try it for 90 days. Use it every morning.

If your plantar fasciitis is not meaningfully better, send it back and we will refund you in full. The risk is ours, not yours.

You have been carrying this for long enough.

It is time to put it down.

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Comments

  • Wilma Devon

    Wilma Devon

    Can anybody vouch for this?

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    • Mary Vernon

      Mary Vernon

      CryoFlex has really helped with my heel and arch pain. I'm on my feet a lot at work and using it when I get home has made a real difference.

      ·  Reply ·  ·  16 min
  • Doris Skylar

    Doris Skylar

    I bought mine for the full price and now it's 45% off? That's not fair!

    ·  Reply ·  ·  51 min
  • Skyler Greig

    Skyler Greig

    How long does shipping take??

    ·  Reply ·  ·  1 h
    • Marie Campbell

      Marie Campbell

      Hey Skyler, got mine after a week.

      ·  Reply ·  ·  24 min
  • Leonard Boyd

    Leonard Boyd

    I like how the cold feels. I like the design and the way my foot fits in it. It's comfortable. I enjoy using it.

    ·  Reply ·  ·  1 h
  • Emma Emerson

    Emma Emerson

    Hey Lois, this is what you need instead of the expensive physical therapy sessions

    ·  Reply ·  ·  2 h
    • Lois Clive

      Lois Clive

      Wow, this is crazy, have ordered one now!

      ·  Reply ·  ·  1 h
  • Alfred Johnson

    Alfred Johnson

    Did you buy one, how long does it take to get it

    ·  Reply ·  ·  2 h
    • Edith Ashton

      Edith Ashton

      For me 7 business days.

      ·  Reply ·  ·  2 h
  • Debra Peyton

    Debra Peyton

    Good product for plantar fasciitis. Different settings and modes helped me dial in what works.

    ·  Reply ·  ·  3 h
  • Paula Remington

    Paula Remington

    Wow looks amazing, does anyone actually have one and has it helped?

    ·  Reply ·  ·  3 h
    • Sarah Dudley

      Sarah Dudley

      I bought this for my dad since he often has heel pain. He loved how it felt and said his morning first-step pain was noticeably better after a few days.

      ·  Reply ·  ·  2 h
  • Agnes Graeme

    Agnes Graeme

    I just ordered mine! Cannot wait for it.

    ·  Reply ·  ·  3 h
  • Barbara Bradly

    Barbara Bradly

    I want one so bad, I'm gonna buy it this weekend when my paycheck hits lol!!

    ·  Reply ·  ·  3 h
  • Ethel Dean

    Ethel Dean

    Does anyone know how long the shipping takes? Want to buy one for my friend.

    ·  Reply ·  ·  4 h
    • Clara Milton

      Clara Milton

      Hey Ethel, mine arrived after about a week

      ·  Reply ·  ·  2 h
    • Emma Shelby

      Emma Shelby

      Your friend will be happy! Perfect gift for anyone with foot pain

      ·  Reply ·  ·  1 h
  • Harry Keegan

    Harry Keegan

    I got this as a gift for my grandma and she loves it. CryoFlex is perfect for someone struggling with plantar fasciitis and heel pain. The product is comfortable to use and the price point is great!

    ·  Reply ·  ·  4 h
  • Bridget Prescott

    Bridget Prescott

    Love this thing totally!

    ·  Reply ·  ·  4 h
  • Anna Madison

    Anna Madison

    I've never had anything like this and it is amazing and worth every penny especially if you're on your feet all day! I needed this years ago but I love it. The cold actually reaches the tissue.

    ·  Reply ·  ·  5 h
  • Clara Milton

    Clara Milton

    I absolutely love my CryoFlex, had to get one for my daughter today since she won't stop using mine!

    ·  Reply ·  ·  5 h
    • Kate Orson

      Kate Orson

      OMG I know, I was so happy that they had some left today. Had to get one immediately before they run out of stock again like last time

      ·  Reply ·  ·  2 h
  • Isabella Mayson

    Isabella Mayson

    Thank you, ours arrived today! Will test it tonight to get some relief from my plantar fasciitis.

    ·  Reply ·  ·  5 h