FOOT AND ANKLE SURGERY
Dr Bond has a special interest in foot and ankle surgery.
He treats a wide range of foot and ankle condition. Below is a range of foot conditions and the most common surgical procedures:
- Ankle sprains
- Ankle lateral ligament injuries are generally managed conservatively but if one has continued pain and instability after prolonged rehabilitation, one can perform lateral ligament reconstruction. The results of early ligament surgery are the same as late surgery.
- Brostrom and internal bracing surgery
- Day procedure
- Foot and Ankle arthritis
- Multiple joints form the ankle to the midfoot can get arthritis
- For the ankle one can do a replacement or fusion. There are various pro and cons of the latter procedures
- Lesser joints of the foot that are arthritic are generally fused
- Osteochondral defects talus
- arthroscopic microfracture or OATS procedure
- Achilles tendinopathy
- There are two types of achilles tendinitis – insertional and mid substance. The former generally requires surgery and the latter can be managed with heel raises and physiotherapy.
- Flat feet and posterior tibial tendon dysfunction and cavus feet.
- Conservative treatment of shoe inserts to surgical treatments will be discussed with you
- Surgeries are either tendon transfers and osteotomies for minor deformities and triple fusions of thw hind and midfoot for more severe deformities
- Bunions
- painful bunion deformity can be treated well with BOAT (best of all techniques) 1st metatarsal osteotomy, an Akin osteotomy of the proximal phalanx and a lateral soft tissue release
- Lesser toe deformities
- painful clawed and hammer toes are corrected with proximal interphalangeal fusions, Weil osteotomies and soft tissue balancing