The Inspiration for Heel-Right™
You may have heard the phrase, “necessity is the mother of invention”. While Dr. Johnson was a student at Life University School of Chiropractic, he developed plantar fasciitis while playing rugby. After nine months of barely being able to get out of bed in the morning, he began experimenting with different ways to support the heel. The concept for a better way to alleviate heel pain was born.
There Must Be an Easier Way to Help Heel Pain Sufferers?
Dr. Johnson opened his practice in 1986 and has provided relief for sufferers of plantar fasciitis ever since. All the while, he contemplated the design of a simple support that could provide similar results. One Friday afternoon in the fall of 2000, Dr. Johnson brought home several orthopedic supports to use as material for an idea he had to make a simple support that patients could use themselves. With his wife’s hand at the sewing machine, together they created the very first Heel Right™ prototype.
The Solution Becomes Available!
A patent (U.S. Patent #6,641,550 B1) for Heel-Right™ was issued to Dr. Johnson in November 2003 and scientific testing of the support was completed in 2004. With the simple, effective solution for plantar fasciitis / heel pain syndrome in hand, Dr. Johnson formed Divine Concepts in January 2005 to make Heel-Right™ available to the estimated 40 million sufferers of plantar fasciitis / heel spurs. |
