Does everyone wear the nightboots every night?

I wore them for about six months. I only have one foot. I had a good, strong, well-padded boot. Somehow I also got a smaller, flemsier boot. I switched back and forth between them. When the good one got dirty, I wore the flimsy one until I could wash and dry the good one. But eventually, I quit wearing them. Aides in nursing homes come and go. They weren’t careful with my foot. I was always having to protect myself so that the toe of the boot wouldn’t get pushed too far left or right when the aide was turning me in bed. It was endangering my knee joint (patella). I felt that my knee could be dislocated by an error of one of the aides. Finally, I decided that it wasn’t worth it to keep wearing it and I quit. Now I turn myself and change my own diapers in bed. Apparently, I move around enough at night so that I haven’t gotten any pressure sores on my foot.

My injury level is T9 incomplete. What’s yours? The injury level probably has a lot to do with whether or not a person needs to keep wearing nightboots.

I’ll add that, like Garciia, I learned the hard way that it is best to sleep almost entirely on my sides, and to spend very little if any time on my back. The hospital did not tell me this in the two and a half months I was there. It was a paraplegic with my same T-9 incomplete injury who told me this on the phone. Sleepng on my sides reduces the possibility of bedsores and it also makes me less preoccupied with my foot (as in, the one foot that I still have).

I purchased planters fasciitis night splints in place of the moon boots. Much smaller and lighter and will keep your foot flexed. I wear them about 70% of the time.

I wore my boots for about a year and stopped because I decided they were a pain to deal with. I'm a side sleeper and it was easier for me to move with out them on.

Were your boots like this, Electricguy?