Posts by Emanuel Sergi
Common misconceptions about foot surgery
While I was writing my last post on hammertoe surgery it occurred to me to write a post on common misconceptions of foot surgery. (Don’t feel like reading a long post? Skip to the last paragraph for a quick summary.) 1) The first one was one that I mentioned in my last post: that extra…
Read MoreThe Best Hammertoe Surgeon and Why
In my residency training I was very lucky to have a good friend who was a plastic surgery fellow. (Fellowship comes after residency in a doctor’s training, and is very specialized.) My friend taught me various plastic surgery procedures and tricks that I have applied to my foot surgery. Hammertoe Surgeon For example: When surgeons…
Read MoreWhat are Hammertoes? Prevention and Hammertoe Surgery.
Allow me to share some information in layman’s terms on hammertoes and Hammertoe surgery. The four small toes on the foot are similar in composition to the fingers. Each of the small toes has three bones with joints in between. The toes form a joint, meeting in what is called the ball of the foot.…
Read MoreKeep your foot dry after surgery!
After foot surgery it is important to keep your foot dry. Depending on the procedure it is usually between two and four weeks. As a convenience for my patients, I dispense a device to keep the foot dry. It works very well in the shower. (click picture to enlarge) Today, a patient came in and…
Read MoreCase Study: severe bunion surgery opening base wedge osteotomy
I am going to start posting quick case studies of interesting foot surgery and other foot problems as they come in. These posts will be shorter than my more education posts and just present the complaint, physical findings, diagnosis and treatment. The first case study is a severe bunion. This is one of the largest…
Read MoreBunion Surgery NYC – Video that explains bunion surgery in layman’s terms.
Hi again, I’ve been busy working on two blog posts. One is now done and one is almost done. Today I will post one of them: I’m proud of this project. Below is a link (click on the picture) to a video I made that cleverly explains bunion surgery in layman’s terms. I took part…
Read MoreCongenital duplication of digit, webbed toes, Six toes or four toes, you decide
I had a very nice young lady come in with a complaint of bunion pain. Webbed Toes The interesting part of this case though, is not the bunion but a congenital abnormality she had. She had webbing of her second and third toe with duplication of parts of the second toe. What does this mean? …
Read MoreFoot Trauma, fracture of the interphalangeal joint of the great toe:
Today I’d like to tell you about a foot trauma case. A young lady presented to my office with a chief complaint of pain in her right great toe. She stated that two days prior she fell off her bicycle. She said the pain was not terrible however when she looked at her foot her…
Read MorePainful Tailor’s bunion, surgical correction of Tailor’s bunion.
Tailor’s Bunion Surgery Today a young lady came in with a complaint of a large bump behind her fifth toe and added that her fifth toe is turning under her fourth. She has pain when she runs and works out. This has been getting progressively worse over the past six months. I diagnosed her with…
Read MoreAnother soft tissue mass to remove this week. – podiatrist NYC
In May I removed a soft tissue mass from this patients left big toe. The pathology report came back as “epidermal inclusion cyst”. In layman’s terms this occurs when the outside dead layer of skin, the epidermis is inverted into the live dermal layer deeper where it does not belong. Well, after removing the lesion…
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