Z-Coil Footwear

Specialties

Z-CoiL’s innovative brand of footwear is engineered to relieve foot, leg and back pain. By reducing impact to the body while providing orthotic support, and even adding an extra little spring to your step, these shoes will have you loving life on your feet.

Do you stand on hard floors all day? Do your feet, knees, hips, and back ache? Z-​CoiL shoes can fix that – with no shots, pills or surgery!

Sound too good to be true? Read hundreds of customer testimonials on our website and you know you’ll have to give them a try.

History

Established in 1996.

Z-​CoiL Pain Relief Footwear was invented by a runner who sought to relieve his own impact-​related injuries. The first Z-​CoiL store opened in Albuquerque, NM, in 1995, and in no time dozens of devoted customers around the country began signing on as independent Z-​CoiL dealers, eager to bring to others the same amazing pain relief they had experienced themselves. Now Z-​CoiL shoes are sold at over 250 retail locations across North America!

Meet the Business Owner

Alvaro G.

Business Owner

Like the coils in the heels of the springy shoes he invented, 80-​year-​old Alvaro Z. Gallegos has experienced plenty of ups and downs in his life, but he keeps on bouncing back.

Born and raised in a poor farming area in southern Colorado, Al was used to hard work, and knew how to fix anything on his grandfather’s farm with a few nuts and bolts and some baling wire.

After serving in the Air Force as a jet fighter pilot, Al settled into northern New Mexico, opened a retail store, married and had 8 children. When his wife died unexpectedly, he took up running to stay in shape for his kids. Then impact-​related injuries began taking taking their toll, and he started to dream of a solution: «If I had springs on my shoes, I could really fly,» he thought.

It took 20 years to develop a spring shoe that also offers support — like shock absorbers in a car – but now hundreds of thousands of customers are getting their lives back, thanks to Al Gallegos.