FIT KING Cordless Foot and Calf Massage Boots, Air Compression Recovery System with 3 Modes and 6 Levels Intensities, Zipper Design for Easier Wear, Rechargeable for Both Home and Outdoor Use.

The best
The compression is very good. I’ve used them 10 times without recharging. I’m recharging now because I don’t want them to go dead. Very convenient. Recommend.

Fantastic recovery aid, and likely helps reduce DVT risk elsewhere as well
Having now accumulated a considerable inventory of artificial joints in recognition of a life spent abusing them, I am all too familiar with the risks of DVTs and embolism, but that became very much more real recently when I experienced something called a saddle PE. Suffice it to say that the ER doctors couldn’t believe I survived. So that’s my bias.Following my first hip replacement my best friend offered to send me one of these that his wife had been sent home with following hers. I’m in the most recently defiled, again, VA system, where they spare every expense to provide the absolute minimum cost of care, while not giving a whit about actual patient health. All part of our new “Golden Age”, but I digressI declined the kind offer, and fortunately, thanks to the less intrusive intervention method used by my community care providing surgeon (that’s someone from outside the VA system, fwiw) my recovery was swift and without a hitch. Then came another, and then my first knee, and you get the pictureI also come from a family of apparently thick blooded vikings and huns, so my subsequent recovery included a pair of something similar to these, but the ones used in the hospital struck me as barely noticeable when in use, except that is for the myriad rats’ nest of tubes and wires everywhere that were constantly confounding me every time ai tried to get to the bathroom. So I was glad to leave them behind when I left, even though the sense of their intended impact did make sense to me.Jumping forward to most recently and I saw these pop up as an algorithmic suggestion just for me (AI is great, but it creeps me out all the same). Wow, what a difference!Read the directions, which were short, sweet and very easy to follow and understand. Hooked up the very well thought out charger (and make sure that’s the only wayvthat you ever charge them, which is their repeated warning). The charger is a small wall wart with an accompanying USB connecting cable that splits into two USB-C cables, one for each sock, and they attach to the bottom of the small control unit on each. They recommend at least a 2.5 hour initial charge, but I let mine go overnight.There is a battery condition indicator on each, and a charge indicator light, so that part of the process is all pretty much dummy proof. The next part however is where these really came to outshine and embarrass the hospital units, whichbI’ve zero doubt costvthe facility many times what a pair of these run.The hospital brand had Velcro straps everywhere, and if I had been recovering from a hip replacement, there is absolutely no way that would ever be able to get them on or off without assistance. These, on the other hand, wrre a model if industrial and ergonomic design genius. They are somewhat preformed to follow the natural bend between your foot and calf at rest, so you unzip it as far as it will go, slip your foot in and grab the zipper, pulling it up and you’re on to the next one. It literally takes less time to don these than you’ll spend reading this paragraph.Each is clearly labeled for Right and Left leg, and the controls are made for impatient patients like me; hit the power button on each, choose your massage mode with a second button, and then your intensity level with a third. You’ll immediately feel the internal compressors begin to fill the void between your leg and the device the same way a blood pressure cuff expands, but this doesn’t get that tight.They do get tight enough however, and it’s recommended that you start at the lowest intensity setting until you get used to how it all feels, so I immediately put it on high of course.The massage was great, but the middle setting turns out to be the best for me, and the noise level from the pumps is practically nil. Actually, that too was an improvement over what the hospital had.Now they do warn nit to walk in these, but at least you can if an emergency trip to the latrine arises. Just hit the power button and it deflates, but to be perfectly honest, they’re so easy and quick to get on and off that there’s really no need to even contemplate that.These will run for 20 minutes at a time, and you can run them while they are plugged in and charging, but the coolest worry free part to me is that you can keep tirningbthem back on as many times as you like without hurting them or yourself.That said, the most ai’ve run them is for three consecutive sessions, but normally these are powerful enough that justvonecsession on the middle intensity setting works fine for me. Not that it’s a good thing, because being sedentary is what’ll kill you quicker than hope, but at least now when I sit down to watch some TV I’m not consumed with anxiety about getting up to another PE. That was seriously scary, so although I received these gratis through the Amazon Vine program, I would have gladly purchased a pair had I known they were even available to me, especially at this price.