Foot surgery has always been reserved for those situations where pain is present. This is a valid and important principle to adhere to when you are making a decision to treat a patient. There are situations in medicine however, that warrant treatment before symptoms are present. These are situations where we know that when the symptoms present, there may already be irreversible damage to the tissues. One such presentation is in the foot.
Foot deformities such as bunions, hammertoes, wide feet and short toes can present with pain. But this is usually the case after many years have past and the condition has manifested itself with secondary problems referred to as sequelae. If you have a bunion deformity, and you have no pain; the chances are you will have pain in the future. As we age, the surface of the joint where the bunion exists (the 1st metatarsal phalangeal joint) is slowly eroded away. When the surface is void of cartilage and is exposed bone, DJD (degenerative joint disease) begins (a form or arthritis) and pain begins. This process is usually inevitable with orthopedic conditions that have dislocation involved like bunions.
Doctors that inform patients to wait until they have pain before they consider surgery, are really telling patients to wait until the surface of the joint gets damaged before they take action. This may work when surgery is a difficult option and the risks outweigh the advantages. But what if there was a better way?
Aesthetic Foot Surgery™ with innovative techniques created by Dr. Sadrieh, is a new method of performing corrective surgery where procedures are performed with a short, pain-free recovery period, and result in permanent correction with beautiful aesthetic results. This allows active professional patients or regular people with busy lives to fix problems with their feet before they become symptomatic.
Preventing symptoms, and practicing with a non-reactionary approach to foot problems, is one of the corner stones of Dr. Sadrieh’s approach. Most procedures allow patients to be back to normal activities within 2 weeks and are permanent. Aesthetic results with minimally invasive incision technique and plastic surgical closure, is another critical component of this revolutionary surgical technique. Together these philosophies provide patients with the most advanced procedures available in Podiatric Surgery today.
