Severe Or Chronic Foot Pain? See A Podiatric Surgeon For Relief

17 November 2020

Jaime Allen

If you're finding it extremely difficult to manage your foot pain each day, consult a podiatric surgeon today. Your foot pain could be the result of an untreated or unhealed injury. Learn more about your foot pain and how a podiatric or orthopedic surgeon can help relieve it.

Why Won't Your Injury Stop Hurting?

The bones, joints, ligaments, and tendons in your feet and ankles can tear, break, or even twist out of shape if you injure them. Podiatric and orthopedic physicians must diagnose and treat these types of injuries right away or else they won't heal properly. Untreated injuries can become inflamed and swollen with infection over time.

You also need to allow the injuries sufficient time to mend. Some injuries take a while to mend or heal properly. For example, ankle or ligament sprains can take three to six months to feel and look better. If you aggravate the injury before it has enough time to heal, it can become scarred, inflamed, and knotted with pain.

If any of the situations above apply to you, a podiatric or orthopedic doctor may be able to correct it with surgery.

How Will a Surgeon Help You?

A physician can examine your injury with radiographs to find out why it continues to plague you. Some physicians use computed tomography (CT) scanners to unhealed or untreated injuries. If your injury is deep or very old, a doctor may use an MRI scanner to examine the deepest tissues in your foot. Once a doctor knows exactly why your foot hurts, they can plan your surgical treatment.

If your foot hurts because it's infected with bacteria or another germ, a doctor may remove the infected tissues with surgery. You may need to take some type of antibiotic medication prior to your surgery. The medication will reduce the infection, which may increase the success rate of the surgery.

If the injury in your foot hurts because it didn't heal properly in the past, a surgeon may surgically mend the tissues. A doctor can mend the tissues with dissolvable sutures or metal staples. There may be a number of other mending methods used by a surgeon as well. 

A doctor can also replace the unhealed tissues with artificial tissues, especially if the tissues show no signs of healing in the future. The artificial tissues can also keep the healthy tissues in your foot from becoming infected or damaged later on.

Learn more about podiatric surgery and why you may need it by contacting an orthopedic physician today.

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