The Cinderella Procedure™ Preventative Bunion Correction

For years now, women have been subjected to wearing shoes that aren’t necessarily the best for their feet. History has shown with customs like chinese foot binding, that the well being of a woman’s foot has taken second priority to social norms and beauty.  When I first started practice, I dealt with this contradiction in philosophy.  As a foot surgeon, correcting deformities that cause pain was the basis of my training.  But as time went on, I realized that advising women not to wear high heeled shoes, was unrealistic.  This is because in the modern world, professional or formal attire requires a woman to wear high heeled shoes due to social norms and pressures.  This is unfortunate but true.

Rather than isolate my practice form the realities of what women endure in the professional world, I decided to create a procedure that addresses the problems that women face when wearing high heeled shoes.  One such problem is a wide foot.  Bunions and Tailor’s Bunions (smaller bunion on the outside of the foot) are often the cause of pain and constant grief for women that have to wear these kinds of shoes.

The Cinderella Procedure addresses this issue with a modern, pain free, and short recovery procedure. Like my Aesthetic Bunion Correction, the Cinderella Procedure allows most patients to walk right after the procedure and be ambulatory during the post-operative period. In most cases, patients are able to be back into high heels in 4 weeks. This is a remarkable improvement form the traditional method of correcting this problem that leaves patients non-weightbearing for up to 2 months in some instances!

This procedure was recently highlighted on the CBS show “The Doctors”.  You can watch a clip of the show here: http://www.thedoctorstv.com/main/procedure_list/133

Here is a before and after Xray of the patient from the show demonstrating the procedure at just 13 days post-op!

Cinderella Before Surgery

Cinderella After Surgery