Summer is here, and the season for open toed shoes begins. But this isn’t the best time for some women. I meet these women everyday, and I feel privileged to be the doctor they choose to give them new feet.
When I decided to create what I consider a totally new mind set in foot surgery, I knew that I was going to open a new door in the medical treatment of foot problems. In our modern society, medicine is still catching up with the idea of preventative surgical measures in the orthopedic realm. As I have outlined in my practice philosophy statement, this is what I hope aesthetic foot surgery will grow into. I consider it an honor to be part of this great shift in the moral paradigm of podiatry as we know it.
Every day, women come to our practice from around the United States, and now the world, telling me how they have been hoping there would be a doctor who would take them seriously about their long toes, or the discomfort they experience when they wear high heeled shoes at work. The reality is that the modern woman is faced with social pressures than men do not experience.
A professional woman in the 21st century is expected to wear what is considered professional women’s shoes as acceptable attire. What is sold to the modern woman by the fashion industry as beautiful, has some sort of a high heel. The problem they face is that what is considered a professional, or sexy woman’s shoe is not consistent with what podiatric medicine considers orthopedically correct.
During the creation of my concept practice, Beverly Hills Aesthetic Foot Surgery, I decided to consolidate these two worlds and create a specialty that provided the modern woman, simpler, easy-recovery procedures that not only address the orthopedic problem that limits their shoe choices, but also does it with respect to the appearance of the finished result.
Today, I am proud to say that we see women from all over the world, and I have had the pleasure of being part of some amazing stories. I have met women who had unfortunate results from old fashioned hammertoe surgeries who haven’t worn open toed shoes in 10 years, to CEOs who suffer with corns because you can’t go to the board room in tennis shoes.
My commitment to continue innovating new solutions to my patients needs will always be the driving force or our practice, so I say, take of those sandals and feel how wonderful it is to experience the sand between your toes this summer… barefoot!
Dr. Ali Sadrieh
I am not trying to wear high heals. I am trying to walk. I have very thin footpads in both feet. During the years I have had several cortisone shots and several surgeries (mostly neuromas). I am left with a thin pad that is damaging nerves and metatarsil bones and I am in a lot of pain most of the time. Can your prodedure help me? Is it permanent? What is the cost? I live in Colorado