TREATMENTS

Achilles Tendon Repair

The Achilles Tendon attaches the back of the heal to the calf muscle, and allows the body to walk, run and jump. If this tendon starts to frey or rupture, patients will require surgery to repair it.

Allograft

Physicians define an Allograft as tissue grafted onto an area after surgery to assist the healing process. Differs from an Autograft in that an Allograft comes from a source outside the patients body.

Angular Deformity Correction

Surgery to re-align or straighten crooked toes.

Ankle Arthrodesis

Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones of a joint in order to immobilize the joint and cease pain.

Ankle Arthoscopic Debridement

A minimally invasive surgery to remove damaged tissue or foreign objects from the ankle.

Ankle Arthrotomy

During an Arthotomy, the physician surgically opens a joint. This can help the physician diagnose a problem with the joint or drain excess fluids from the joint.

Ankle Ganglion Cyst Removal

Ganglion Cysts can grow along tendons or joints, and consist of lumps filled with a fluid or jelly-like substance. Although usually non-cancerous, they can cause pain if pressed against a nerve or sensitive joint.

Ankle Joint Synovectomy

When the tissue membrane that lines a joint becomes inflamed, Physicians may opt to remove this Synovial Tissue in order to relieve pain. 

Ankle ORIF

ORIF stands for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, a surgery used to fix severely broken bones. This surgery involves exposing the area around the broken ankle bone, and installing harware such as screws and braces to keep the ankle together while it heals.

Anterior Ankle Arthroplasty

Anterior Ankle Arthroplasty involves the surgical reconstruction or replacement of the Ankle Joint on the Anterior side.  

Antibiotic Spacer Removal

When operating on an infected joint, surgeons may place an antibiotic-filled cement spacer inside the area, which will slowly release the antibiotics into the joint over the next several weeks. Once the infection has cleared up, the surgeon removes the spacer.

Austin Bunionectomy

In an Austin Bunionectomy, a surgeon makes an incision to expose the joint of the big toe. The surgeon shaves down the extruding bone causing the Bunion, and then re-aligns the big toe with an Osteotomy to line up with the 2nd toe.

Autograft Harvest

Physicians define an Autograft as tissue grafted onto an area after surgery to assist the healing process. Differs from an Allograft in that an Autograft comes from a source inside the patients own body, rather than some other source.

Bone Biopsy

A Biopsy involves removing a tissue sample from an area for the purposes of diagnostic testing.

Bone Debridement

A surgery to remove damaged tissue or foreign objects from a bone.

Bridle Procedure

A complicated procedure used to restore function to a foot suffering from foot drop and paralysis. In a Bridle Procedure, the surgeon attaches the posterior tibial tendon to the bone to make up for the loss of motion from other paralyzed tendons.

Brostrom-Gould Ankle Stabilization

Brostrom-Gould Reconstruction involves the reconstruction and repair of damaged tendons on the outer side of the ankle for the purposes of stabilizing the joint after an injury or sprain.

Bunionectomy

A surgery performed to remove a Bunion: A bony bump that forms near the joint at the base of the big toe. A bunion forms as the big toe pushes against the next toe over time. Foot stress, tight shoes, and arthritis can lead to bunions. Patients experiencing pain from a bunion may benefit from a Bunionectomy. Although surgical approaches may vary depending on the size of the bunion and the surgeon performing the operation, a bunionectomy usually starts with an incision on the top or side of the big toe. Surgeons then remove a portion of the bone and soft tissue to correct the bunion.

Calcaneal Autograft Harvest

Physicians define an Autograft as tissue grafted onto an area after surgery to assist the healing process. Differs from an Allograft in that a Calcaneal Autograft comes from inside the patients own Heel bone, rather than some other source.

Calcaneal ORIF

ORIF stands for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, a surgery used to fix severely broken bones. This surgery involves exposing the area around the broken Calcaneus (Heel bone), and installing hardware such as screws and braces to keep the Heel bone together while it heals.

Calcaneocuboid Metatarsal Arthrodesis

Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones of a joint in order to immobilize the joint bones and cease pain in the area.

Calcaneonavicular Tarsal Coalition Resection

A Tarsal Coalition occurs when two or more of the Tarsal bones in the foot have an unnatural connection. A Resection surgery cuts this connection and allows the foot to move more naturally.

CCJ Arthrodesis

CCJ Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones in the Calcanealcuboid joint in order to immobilize the joint and cease pain.

Cheilectomy

A Cheilectomy procedure removes Bone Spurs from the joint of the Big toe, curing the condition known as Hallux Rigidis.

Foot Specialists define Cheilectomy as an operation of the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint, where the big toe bends and attaches back to the foot. The procedure involves a surgeon making an incision on the skin and removing excess bone with the aid of orthopedic tools that cut away at the bone spurs.

Generally, the bone spurs form at the top of the joint, but surgeons can remove bone spurs on the sides of the joint during cheilectomy surgery as well. 

Orthopedic surgeons or podiatrists perform this outpatient foot surgery under local anesthesia as either an open surgery or as a minimally invasive procedure with a smaller incision.

Chevron Bunionectomy

In a Chevron Bunionectomy, a surgeon makes an incision to expose the joint of the big toe. The surgeon shaves down the extruding bone causing the Bunion, and then re-aligns the big toe with an Osteotomy to line up with the 2nd toe. 

Closed Reduction

When physicians feel that they can set a broken bone without the need for surgery, they call it a Closed Reduction. The Physician physically sets the bone back in place before putting the affected area in a cast to heal.

Cotton Osteotomy

Doctors use Cotton Osteotomy to correct “flat feet” in patients. A surgeon cuts into the top side of the medial cuneiform bone and insert a wedge that pushes the foot into the correct arch position.

Deep Peroneal Nerve Neurolysis

Peroneal Nerve Neurolysis involves using a chemical injection to deaden the Peroneal nerve in order to stop the nerve from broadcasting a chronic pain signal.

Derotational PIPJ Arthroplasty of the 5th Toe

Derotational Arthroplasty involves the surgical reconstruction or realignment of a crooked toe joint.

Distal Fibula ORIF

ORIF stands for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, a surgery used to fix severely broken bones. This surgery involves exposing the area around the broken Fibula (Calf Bone), and installing hardware such as screws and braces to keep the bone together while it heals.

Distal Fibular Partial Bone Exicision

A Surgery that Involves partially removing a Distal section of the Fibula. 

EDL Tendon Lengthening

A Surgery to extend the tendons that connect to the extensor digitorum longus, a muscle on the outer area of the leg.

Ex Fix Removal

Physicians who need to keep a patients bones fixed in a certain position may make use of External Fixation, or Ex Fix. Ex Fix consists of external hardware attached to the bones through the skin. 

Excision of Plantar Fibroma

This Excision involves the removal of a Plantar Fibroma, a fibrous knot of tissue that can develop on the bottom of the foot.

Excision of Bone Spur

Bone Spurs can develop in any joint of the body as the result of arthritis or degeneration and cause intense pain. Surgeons can Excise, or remove, these Bone Spurs to reduce this pain.

Exostectomy

The medical term for the removal of a bone spur.

Extensor Tendon Lengthening

A Surgical procedure to lengthen the Extensor Tendon to relieve pain caused by tightness.

External Fixation Application/Adjustment

Physicians who need to keep a patients bones fixed in a certain position may make use of External Fixation, or Ex Fix. Ex Fix consists of external hardware attached to the bones through the skin. 

FDL Tenotomy

The cutting of a tendon on the Flexor Digitorum Longus muscle, usually as a way to treat hammer toe.

FHL Tendon Transfer

This procedure repositions the flexor hallucis longus tendon, (commonly called the “FHL” tendon) to reinforce a diseased Achilles tendon. The FHL tendon travels along the inner side of the ankle and foot.

Fibular ORIF

ORIF stands for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, a surgery used to fix severely broken bones. This surgery involves exposing the area around the broken Fibula (Calf bone), and installing hardware such as screws and braces to keep the bone together while it heals.

Fibular Sesamoidectomy

A sesamoidectomy removes one of the sesamoid bones to reduce pain and inflammation.

Foreign Body Removal

Also known as a Debridement, a surgery to remove damaged tissue or foreign objects from an area.

Ganglion Cyst Removal

Ganglion Cysts can grow along tendons or joints, and consist of lumps filled with a fluid or jelly-like substance. Although usually non-cancerous, they can cause pain if pressed against a nerve or sensitive joint.

Gastrocnemius Recession

Gastrocnemius recession lengthens the tendons and muscles on the back of the leg, allowing the heel to shift downward into a more natural position. Surgeons use this procedure to correct conditions such as flatfoot, chronic Achilles tendonitis, or equinus (commonly called toe walking).

Gastrocnemius Rupture Repair

Repairs a rupture or tear of the muscles on the back of the leg.

Hallux Interphalangeal Arthrodesis

Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones of a joint in order to immobilize the joint and cease pain.

Hallux ORIF

ORIF stands for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, a surgery used to fix severely broken bones. This surgery involves exposing the area around the broken Hallux (Big Toe), and installing hardware such as screws and braces to keep the bone together while it heals.

Incision and Drainage

 A Surgical cut used to drain excess fluids from an area suffering from fluid build-up.

Kidner Procedure

Surgeons perform the Kidner procedure most commonly for accessory navicular bones that cause pain. This procedure involves detaching the bone from the posterior tibial tendon and then removing it from the foot. The physician then reattaches the tibial tendon and closes the incision with stitches.

Leg Hematoma Evacuation

Involves draining excess blood that has pooled outside the blood vessels underneath the skin.

Lisfranc ORIF

ORIF stands for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, a surgery used to fix severely broken bones. This surgery involves exposing the area around the broken Lisfranc (Midfoot bones), and installing hardware such as screws and braces to keep the bone together while it heals.

MDCO

A Medial Calcaneal Displacement Osteotomy, or MDCO, corrects the hindfoot valgus alignment, resulting in restoration of the foot’s medial arch by a neutral pull of the triceps surae through the ankle.

Medial Malleolar Ankle ORIF

ORIF stands for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, a surgery used to fix severely broken bones. This surgery involves exposing the area around the broken Malleolar Ankle (Outside Ankle bone), and installing hardware such as screws and braces to keep the Heel bone together while it heals.

Metatarsal Biopsy

A Biopsy involves removing a tissue sample from the metatarsal for the purposes of diagnostic testing.

Metatarsal Head Resection

A simple procedure that shaves down the Metatarsal Head to give long-term pain relief in over two thirds of the patients who have rheumatoid forefoot deformities

Metatarsal ORIF

ORIF stands for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, a surgery used to fix severely broken bones. This surgery involves exposing the area around the broken Metatarsal (The long foot bones that connect to the toes), and installing hardware such as screws and braces to keep the bone together while it heals.

Metatarsal Ostectomy

A surgical procedure performed to treat a deformity in the foot. This surgery involves cutting the metatarsal bone of the big toe and realigning the bone to correct a deformity.

Metatarsocuneiform Arthrodesis

Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones of a joint in order to immobilize the joint and cease pain.

Midfoot Ganglion Cyst Removal

Ganglion Cysts can grow along tendons or joints, and consist of lumps filled with a fluid or jelly-like substance. Although usually non-cancerous, they can cause pain if pressed against a nerve or sensitive joint.

Morton’s Neuroma Excision

A Morton’s Neuroma involves a thickening of the tissue around one of the nerves leading to the toes. This causes a sharp, burning pain in the ball of the foot. Patients may report stinging, burning or numbness in the affected toes.

MPJ Arthrodesis

Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones of a joint in order to immobilize the joint and cease pain.

MPJ Arthrotomy

During an Arthotomy, the physician surgically opens a joint. This can help the physician diagnose a problem with the joint or drain excess fluids from the joint.

MPJ Capsulotomy

Surgeons perform a metatarsophalangeal joint (MPJ) capsulotomy on the joint in an attempt to increase the range of motion of the joint and/or release a contracture.

Navicular ORIF

ORIF stands for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, a surgery used to fix severely broken bones. This surgery involves exposing the area around the broken Navicular bone (A small bone that sits on the inner-side of the ankle), and installing hardware such as screws and braces to keep the bone together while it heals.

Nerve Entrapment Release

A Surgery used to relieve pressure on any nerve causing pain.

Open Plantar Faciotomy

The surgical procedure used to treat plantar fasciitis, sometimes called heel spurs. This condition causes stabbing or burning heel pain when the tissue along the bottom of the foot — which connects the heel bone to the toes — inflames.

Open Achilles Tendon Lengthening

The Achilles Tendon attaches the back of the heal to the calf muscle, and allows the body to walk, run and jump. If this tendon starts to frey or rupture, patients will require surgery to repair it.

Os Peroneum Excision

Os peroneum: an accessory ossicle located within the peroneus longus tendon.

Os Tibial Externum Excision

Os Tibial: an accessory bone on the medial side of the navicular of the foot at the insertion of the posterior tibial tendon (PTT)

Os Trigonium Excision

Os Trigonium: one of the ossicles of the foot and often mistaken for a fracture. It sits posterior to the talus.

Osteochondral Defect Repair

An osteochondral defect, also known as osteochondritis dissecans of the knee refers to an injury or damage to the smooth articular cartilage surrounding the knee joint and the bone underneath the cartilage.

Peroneal Tendon Repair

A surgery to repair tendons on the outer side of the calf.

PIPJ Arthrodesis

Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones of a joint in order to immobilize the joint and cease pain.

Plantar Fascieotomy

The surgical procedure used to treat plantar fasciitis, sometimes called heel spurs. This condition causes stabbing or burning heel pain when the tissue along the bottom of the foot — which connects the heel bone to the toes — inflames.

Posterior Tibial Tendon Debridement

A surgery to remove damaged tissue or foreign objects from the Posterior Tibial Tendon.

Posterior Tibial Tendon Repair

A surgery to repair tendons on the back of the Tibia bone.

Ray Amputation

Also known as Amputation of a toe.

Repair Peroneus Longus Tendon

A surgery to repair the Peroneus Longus Tendon which connect the outside edge of the foot to the leg.

Sesamoid Excision

A surgery to remove one of the Sesamoids, small bones on the underside of the big toe that can catch on tendons, causing pain.

STJ Arthrodesis

Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones of a joint in order to immobilize the joint and cease pain.

Subchondroplasty

A minimally invasive procedure performed to repair chronic bone marrow lesions by filling them with a bone substitute. The bone substitute then gets slowly absorbed and replaced by the bone.

Sural Nerve Decompression

A Surgery to relieve pressure on the Sural Nerve, which resides in the calf muscle area of the leg.

Syndesmosis Repair

A Surgery to repair damage done to the Syndesmosis: a fibrous joint held together by ligaments. Located near the ankle joint, between the tibia, or shinbone, and the distal fibula, or outside leg bone.

Talonavicular Joint Arthrodesis

Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones of a joint in order to immobilize the joint and cease pain.

Tarsal Coalition Resection

The surgery involves removing the abnormal tissue to allow motion of the back part of the foot. A surgeon places a soft tissue spacer, such as fat or tendon, at the removed coalition site to limit bone re-growth. This surgery preserves the rearfoot joints.

Tarsal Tunnel Release

This Surgery releases pressure on the impinged posterior tibial nerve by cutting the Tarsal Ligament. 

Toe Amputation

The surgical removal of a toe.

Triple Arthrodesis

Arthrodesis involves “Fusing” the bones of a joint in order to immobilize the joint and cease pain.

Weil Ostetomy

Weil osteotomy, sometimes referred to as distal metatarsal osteotomy, helps to relive the condition of metatarsal-phalangeal (MTP) joint synovitis, MTP subluxation, or claw toe, by shortening the end of the metatarsal located at the base of the affected toe.