This website is intended to give patients information regarding Podiatric Surgery.
Feet can develop many painful disorders and Podiatric Surgery is a recognised way to deal with many of the faults that arise. If your symptoms are mild, medication may be enough to reduce your pain. Insoles or shoe modifications may be useful for some patients. When symptoms persist and normal ambulation is no longer possible, surgery may be necessary.
Surgery is not the answer to all foot problems. However, corrective surgical procedures can provide a solution to many long term problems that would otherwise only be treatable by chronic conservative measures.
Surgery should primarily be carried out for the relief of intractable pain or deformity; cosmesis alone is not sufficient indication for invasive surgery. Surgery is the treatment of choice when other non-surgical methods of treatment have been tried and have been unsuccessful or are not sufficiently helpful.
How surgery can help:
- The pain should have been reduced or may have stopped completely
- The foot may be straighter and should function better
- You should feel more comfortable when wearing shoes
Most commonly performed procedures:
Steroid injections
Minor Surgery
- Verrucae, corn and skin surgery
- Nail surgery
Podiatric Surgery
- Cyst and ganglion excision
- Morton’s neuroma surgery
- Sub ungual exostectomies
- Lesser toe correction
- Metatarsal surgery for plantar corns
- Surgery for hallux limitus
- Surgery for hallux valgus
- Haglund’s deformity
- Plantar fasciitis