[OC] What actually helped people’s plantar fasciitis, by shoe — 2,719 first-person Reddit + YouTube reports

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1. Source: I built a site (searchingforsole.com) that reads first-person plantar fasciitis comments from Reddit’s PF community, running forums, and YouTube comment sections, then tallies what each person said about each shoe. Each person is counted once per shoe, promotional-looking accounts are weighted down, and a second LLM pass audits for extraction errors. Tool: Python + matplotlib. Full interactive per-shoe breakdown with links back to every original comment: https://searchingforsole.com. Happy to answer questions about the methodology.

2. This is actually great and should be canon

   I went through a lot of expense and trial and error to land on oofos and bondis as the best combo. Would have been very handy starting out to have access to something like this!

3. No orthofeet mentions? That’s what I get for my mom’s pf

4. Interesting. I stepped on a shovel and it hit a rock and jammed into the tendon at the heel. Plantar fasciitis was the diagnosis and it was super painful. After a few months of it not getting better, I went to the doctor and he wanted to give me a boot that was going to cost me $400 out of pocket. Declined. Amazon was pretty new a the time but I found one on there. Wore it for 5 days and the pain was completely gone.

5. I would compute 95% confidence intervals and sort by the lower bound for the success rate. This would take the sample size into account. For the case with 0 failures (Brooks) one can use the Wilson Score Interval or a Bayesian method to get an interval as the standard formula for confidence yields (1.0, 1.0) which is not valid.

6. The shoes from Gaitline helped me get back on my feet after struggeling with plantar facitiis for 14 years.

7. This is a great example of lying with statistics.

   Helped with symptoms or helped with healing the injury? Relieved pain or resolved the underlying trauma?

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