Best shoes for plantar fasciitis when you're on your feet all day

Nurses, teachers, retail and warehouse workers make up a large share of the plantar fasciitis communities these comments come from, and what they reach for is not running shoes. This is every shoe with enough first-person reports from people standing or walking all day to rank on its own. Ranked by the share who said it helped, across 929 first-person verdicts. Every count links to the original comment.

• Hoka Recovery Slides127 of 144 helped · 88%
• Skechers Arch Fit33 of 35 helped · 94%
• Vionic45 of 49 helped · 92%
• Oofos205 of 246 helped · 83%
• Kuru73 of 85 helped · 86%
• Birkenstock177 of 215 helped · 82%
• Brooks Addiction Walker few reports10 of 10 helped · 100%
• Crocs65 of 83 helped · 78%
• Lems few reports20 of 23 helped · 87%
• Dansko Professional21 of 28 helped · 75%
• Orthofeet few reports9 of 11 helped · 82%

How this is ordered: not by raw percentage. Ten people out of ten is a weaker result than 205 out of 246, because ten people could be luck. Each shoe is ranked on the lower end of what its numbers can support at 95% confidence, so a small sample has to earn its place rather than win on a perfect score. Shoes marked few reports have under 25 verdicts — read them as a hint, not a finding. Anything under eight is left off entirely. How the counting works →