These innovative new heel protector sleeves are designed to buffer the impact you feel in your heels with each step exceptionally sleek yet adequately padded for ultimate comfort the pads will protect your entire achilles tendon by absorbing pressure and friction and are designed to help achilles tendonitis bursitis fat pad contusion and many other foot ailmentseach pad is lined with titanium sheet material to reflect heat back into the footcan be worn with or without shoesfully hand washa