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Podiatric Medicine & Surgery

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Podiatry Blog Posts

What 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…

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Keep 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)…

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Case 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.…

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Bunion 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…

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Congenital 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…

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Foot 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…

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Painful 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…

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Another 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…

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Recurrent Ganglion of tendon sheath – Podiatrist NYC

I just saw a patient with a recurrent ganglion of tendon sheath. She had presented to my office with a large fluid filled mass on top of her right great toe that had been present for three months and was getting larger.  She reported that it rubbed on her…

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Severe ingrown toe nail “paranychia” – Podiatrist NYC

It’s only 8:30 AM and this morning I have already performed a small nail surgery.  The young man in the photo below had an ingrown nail for 3 weeks but could not make it in to see me because of his work schedule. He finally called in sick and…

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