 everything you've ever wondered about shoe sizes and prosthetic feet. I'll often get the question of is this foot size the same as my meek foot? If not, do I have to buy two pairs of shoes? Do I have to buy the sizes separately? Easy answer when you are measuring for your prosthetic. They do indeed match up the sizing of your prosthetic foot to the kinds of shoes you would normally wear. However, something I didn't expect is the fact that you don't really realize how much movement you have in your foot and how kind of squishy it is until you try to get a shoe on something that is neither of those things. When I first started using my prosthetic and tried to get shoes on it was so difficult to get around like the hard plastic that I thought it was the wrong size. No, in fact it turns out you just have to use a little more muscle when you're getting shoes on. I use a lot of shoe horns. I always make sure there's a sock on my prosthetic foot to kind of reduce some of that friction. In case you're ever wondering, I am a 23R in foot sizes which is like a seven and a half in women's and that my friends is everything I know about prosthetic feet and shoe sizes.