Pain associated with peripheral neuropathy
Pain associated with peripheral neuropathy. Are you like millions of Americans who feel burning and tingling sensations in your limbs. You may have peripheral neuropathy. You may have persistent tingling and numbness, loss of balance and coordination, weak muscles, burning and tingling pain, as well as changes in sensations. There are ways […]
Acoustic sound wave and regenerative medical therapy helps overcome oxygen deprivation
Many athletes do extensive exercise and can result in tissue damage, muscle damage as well as orthopedic injuries. Oxygen is necessary for these tissues to help. If there is a lack of oxygen then muscles, bones, and nerves have a difficult time healing. With the use of our regenerative medical therapy and acoustic sound […]
Laser Therapy and Healing of Wounds
Many of our patients have severe ulcers and wounds because of diabetes as well as peripheral vascular disease. We use laser therapy to help wounds to heal. Our laser allows for granulation tissue to form as well as collagen fibers and blood vessels. All of these can help increase the formation of good healthy tissue. […]
Do not be a Victim to the Hardware Doctor doing Bunions
There is a lot of medial these days about doing minimal incision bunion surgery. Do not be a victim of the hardware doctor. They think this is minimal incision. They make a small incision. Then they insert these large screws. Sometimes they insert screws and plates. This is not minimal […]
Pickle Ball Injuries on the Rise: Regenerative Medical Therapy can help overcome such injuries
At the Comprehensive Foot and Ankle Institute, we are now seeing many elderly patients coming in with pickleball injuries. Pickleball is a highly competitive sport. It combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping-pong and has recently become popular among people of all ages. But while everyone is having a lot of fun and […]
Fat Pad Augmentation: Liposana
If you suffer from severe pain at the ball of the feet from metatarsalgia as well as neuroma and heel pain, you may be suffering from fat pad atrophy. In this situation the fat pad from your area of the pain in the bottom of your foot has decreased. This results in increased pain at the […]
Minimal incision surgery done with hideous screws. Why would you let this happen to you? Stay away from them
Some surgeons now want to do minimal incision bunion surgery with hideous screws. They want to TRY and do minimal incision surgery. So they use these large screws to shift the bone all the way to correct the bunion. This will result in a blown out metatarsal with severe complications. Why would you want to […]
Pseudo bunion caused by the new orthopedic surgical procedure. Stay away from these procedures!
What is a Pseudo Bunion.? This results when the orthopedic surgeon decides to do their type of minimal incision surgery. They use these large screws. This results in a bony deformity in the back. Which then grows into a bony growth. Now you will have 2 bunions for the price of 1. Stay away from […]
Minimal incision Tailor’s Bunion without any internal hardware. Faster healing with Regenerative Medical Therapy
Tailor’s bunion. We performed a tailor’s bunion correction which is an osteotomy of the fifth metatarsal. We use no internal fixation. This is performed in our office under local anesthesia. The patient is able to ambulate immediately. The following is an example of a patient who has poor skin turgor. It would be extremely detrimental to […]
The Home Depot bunion. Ask your doctor if they shop at Home Depot. Stay away from them.
Would you like to have your bunion corrected with all of this internal hardware? Make sure your doctor does not shop at the Home Depot. At the comprehensive foot and ankle Institute we specialize in performing minimal incision surgery without any internal hardware such as plates and screws.
