We’re privileged and honored…

Like most American’s, I spent Thanksgiving weekend with my family, taking time to appreciate the relationships that make our lives special.  During this time of year, I feel that I have a lot to be thankful for.  Having the opportunity to do what I do is truly a privilege.  But what makes my career even more rewarding are the relationships I have built over the years with my patients and staff.  I consider myself blessed to have a practice that can focus on providing the highest quality of care so there is time to connect with my patients and get to know “the person attached to the feet” I work on.  This is something rare in medicine today.

When I decided to venture into the realm of innovation and creating new procedures, I couldn’t imagine that we would be where we are today.  I was humbled to see an episode of The Doctor’s Show over Thanksgiving weekend “The Most Dramatic Surgeries and Procedures”, and notice that a segment that we did back in November of 2008 was selected as one of the 5 surgeries for this show.

This was particularly humbling since the show featured surgeries that saved the lives of children by taking congenital heart deformities and correcting them, surgically correcting massive tumors from a little girls face, and blood transfusions that helped a little boy walk.  The Doctor’s Show has become the number one resource for people all across America to refer to for up-to-date information on cutting edge medicine with objective, trustworthy reports.  To be placed among the great surgeons who performed such remarkable procedures on this episode is an honor and a privilege.

The impetus behind creating the Perfect 10! Aesthetic Toe Shortening procedure was not just vanity.  To dismiss the functional effects of this procedure would be unfair to the thousands of women we have helped around the world.  The concept behind this remarkable procedure was simply to acknowledge the realities of the world we live in today and create a safe, reliable procedure that gives women an option to relieve pain and correct the structural problem of having toes that are too long and on their way to becoming hammered (if they weren’t already).

The fact is that women deal with the imposition of fashion if they function in the professional world.  The shoes that a professional woman has to wear are not the best for your feet or the most comfortable.  So instead or pretending that this massive problem is going to go away, I decided to create a procedure that treats the problem with the toe structure so that we could prevent future deformity and unnecessary pain or discomfort.

It would have been much easier to huddle in the safety of the “standard of care” mentality and stick with traditional techniques such as K-Wire fixation, or making incisions on the top of the toes (which is how 99% of toe surgeries are performed in the country), and waiting to do surgery only when there is pain is considered an ethical decision (when pain is usually associated with a degenerative or arthritic joint, a sign of having waited too long to correct the problem).  This just wasn’t good enough… so I created a new procedure.

Five years has gone by and we have had the pleasure of treating thousands of women and men from all over the world for this often painful and limiting condition.

Once again, I am humbled.

Since the beginning of this journey, the philosophy of my practice has been to provide the best foot surgery has to offer.  Using the most advanced techniques, investing in the most current technology, and keeping our practice focused on quality, not volume.  My commitment to our past, present and future patients will never change, “the practice of foot surgery at the highest level without compromise in personal attention, technological advancement, or procedural innovation”.

Dr. Ali Sadrieh