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The Foot & Ankle Surgery division provides reconstructive and trauma procedures, treatment of sports-related injuries, procedures to correct deformities and joint reconstruction and replacement.
Conditions and Disorders We Treat
- Arthritic conditions including degenerative joint disease, rheumatoid arthritis, post-traumatic, hammertoes, midfoot and hindfoot, and ankle joint arthritis
- Ankle instability due to sprains and other injuries
- Bunions caused by arthritis, injury, flat foot, etc.
- Flatfoot and high-arch deformities (posterior tibial tendon dysfunction, polio deformities)
- Post-traumatic deformities including fractures that do not heal (non-unions), fractures that do not heal in the correct alignment (malunions), pseudoarthroses, deformed foot/ankle, dropfoot, etc.
- Congenital deformities (clubfoot, birth defects, coalitions-joint unions, multiple toes, shortened and fat toes)
- Neuromuscular deformities (dropfoot, cerebral palsy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, upper motor/lower motor conditions, spastic conditions)
- Foot/ankle deformities due to diabetes, joint collapsing disease (Charcot) due to diabetes
- Failed surgeries
Surgical Procedures and Techniques
When non-operative therapy fails to achieve the desired result, minimally invasive procedures may be used. Surgical procedures include internal fixation for complex fractures, tendon balancing, transfer, repair and grafting; joint replacement and fusions; cartilage replacement/transplantation and limb salvage reconstruction for foot and ankle conditions resulting from diabetes.
For many of our surgical procedures we use regional anesthesia, (also known as nerve blocks or peripheral nerve block) to block the sensation in a specific part of your body during and after surgery. It offers numerous advantages over conventional general anesthesia, including faster recovery time, fewer side effects, no need for an airway device during surgery, and a dramatic reduction in post-surgical pain.
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