A New Place for Botox to Go

The prospect of a chic chick sliding on her favorite sky-high Choos and not having to suffer some pain for her foot fashion sounds too good to be true. But medspa physicians and Hollywood’s hottest celebs swear that pain-free feet are possible, thanks to Botox®.

Just as Botox® is used to diminish facial wrinkles by relaxing the muscles in the face, the same “relaxing” effect reduces the strained feeling that the shape of the shoe puts on the muscles in the feet. With a simple injection (generally into the heel), your newly relaxed muscles can be completely pain free.

And stopping pain in its stiletto tracks isn’t all Botox® can do for feet. It can also stop feet from sweating excessively. Botox® blocks the chemical signal activating the sweat glands in the feet in the same way that muscle stimulation is blocked when it is used to treat muscle spasms. Physicians say that even one treatment can stop 90% of the sweat production within a single week, and only one treatment a year is necessary.