I decided to test the theory of freezing shoes to decrease pain associated with wearing heels.
Although I know that ice has the ability to act as a pain relive by blocking pain receptors, I was a bit skeptical that affects of the cold would be long term.
I started by picking out a pair of heels. I double wrapped them in store shopping bags (these go on my feet, I don't want them touching my food. Ewww). I put the in the freezer and ran some errands.
I took the shoes out of the freezer after 12 hrs of freezing.
They felt slippery and a bit slimy initially. They weren't too cold.
I was able to wear them for about 23 minutes before I started to feel pain in the balls of my feet.
During that 32 minutes I was walking back & forth on a hardwood floor while baking a cake with my daughter.
My 2 cents, definitely not worth risking damage to leather by freezing shoes. Invest in a great pair of dress shoe orthotics or a dress shoe accommodation for pad. The results of those are long lasting and more beneficial in my opinion.
