Great shoe! My husband has braces or braces and they work great in this shoe. He also suffers from neuropathy and of all the diabetic shoes we have bought these shoes seem to us to be the best. I like Velcro. It doesn't look like old people's shoes. A doctor even scolded me for not buying orthopedic shoes! This is the second pair we've bought but that's because he kept getting them wet while fishing!