If you have painful bunions that affect walking, your podiatrist might recommend bunion surgery. Your Indianapolis and Crawfordsville, IN, podiatrist, Dr. Yong Chae of Active Podiatry, can tell you how bunion surgery can improve your condition.
Significant Pain Relief
Other therapies for bunions focus on reducing irritation on your bunions through comfortable shoes, insoles, pads, and splints. They also help relieve pain and inflammation by using NSAIDs, warm soaks, and corticosteroids.
However, bunion surgery provides direct improvement of bunions and significant pain relief. Many patients report that podiatric surgery to correct bunions improved their symptoms.
Restores Mobility
Bunions can limit your physical activity due to excruciating pain. It could also limit your footwear choice.
Getting bunion surgery can get you back on the playing field. With the pain gone, you can walk, run, and jump once again. It's like getting a new lease on life.
Most Effective
Conservative bunion therapies work at eliminating the symptoms such as inflammation and pain. On the other hand, bunion surgery works to eliminate bunions at their roots.
During podiatric surgery for your bunions, your podiatrist in Indianapolis and Crawfordsville, IN, Dr. Yong Chae might go in to realign your metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint. Therefore, the surgery directly eliminates the problem.
Restores Your Self Confidence
The protruding mass at the side of your big toe can cause discomfort. Your toe alignment is also out of place when you have bunions because your big toe presses against your other toes at an angle.
This malformation might make it challenging to wear specific footwear that shows off your feet. It might also make you sensitive to taking off your footwear in public.
Bunion surgery may restore your foot alignment so that you can go back to wearing comfortable sandals and shoes that highlight your feet.
Discussion With Your Podiatrist
Bunion surgery is a pretty serious procedure in Indianapolis, IN, and your podiatrist at Active Podiatry is in the best position to tell you if you're the right candidate for surgical repair.
Your doctor will take X-rays of your foot during your appointment to assess the situation. He will share the possible risks of the procedure with you. Under spinal, general, or local anesthesia, your doctor may shave or cut and reposition the metatarsal bone of your big toe. The procedure might depend on the severity of your diagnosis and your activity level.
Bunion Surgery could be the solution to your foot troubles. Schedule an appointment to discuss your options with Dr. Yong Chae of Active Podiatry by calling:
Indianapolis: (317) 245-6223
Crawfordsville: (765) 362-7200