Fifteen quiet minutes, just for your feet.
A bunion aches because the muscle that should hold your big toe in line has quietly stopped doing it. Myostep asks that muscle to start again, gently, while you sit down with a cup of tea.
15 minutes
One session a day, sitting down. Nothing to wear to bed.
Gentle by design
29 levels, so you choose what feels right. It should never sting.
It arrives quickly
Sent within a day or two, with you in 5 to 11.
30 days
Change your mind within 30 days and send it back to us.
The kindest 15 minutes of the day
You sit down. The wrap goes over the joint and round the midfoot. You turn it up until the pulse feels firm and steady, and then you leave it alone.
The brace holds the joint — so your toe is supported while the session runs.
The pulse does the asking — EMS makes the muscle contract on its own, the way it would if you could train it deliberately. Almost nobody can.
Then you take it off — and go about your evening in your own shoes.
What the first four weeks feel like
Honestly: this is a habit, not a cure. Here is what people tend to notice, and when.
Week one
The pulse feels strange before it feels normal. Stay on the lower levels; you are learning what it should feel like.
Week two
The 15 minutes stop being a task. Most people settle into a time of day and stop thinking about it.
Week three
The muscle is working harder than it has in years, so a little fatigue in the foot afterwards is normal and passes.
Week four
You will know by now whether it suits you, whether the 15 minutes have become something you actually do.
If you have already tried the other things
Most people arrive here having spent money on a drawer full of them. None of it was wasted, exactly. It just was not asking anything of the muscle.
Toe spacers
Hold the toe apart while they are in. Useful, and finished the moment they come out.
Night splints
Seven or eight hours of being held in position, and a night of not sleeping terribly well.
Wider shoes
Genuinely worth doing. It makes the day easier without changing what is underneath.
One foot, or both
Nothing to decide beyond how many feet need looking after. Bunions usually turn up on both, even when only one of them hurts yet.
Looking after you
EMS suits most people. It does not suit everyone, and we would rather say so plainly than bury it.
Please do not use it with a pacemaker
Or any other implanted electronic device. This one is not a judgement call.
Have a word with your doctor if
You are pregnant, or living with diabetes, reduced feeling in your feet, or a circulatory condition.
It should never feel sharp
A firm, steady tapping is right. If it stings, turn it down. Higher is not better.
And it is not surgery
A severe or rigid bunion deserves a podiatrist, not a device. We would rather you saw one.