Do you think you might be part of the approximately one-third of Americans affected by hallux valgus? Not sure? The condition might sound more familiar if we refer to it by its more commonly known name: a bunion.
This bony protrusion develops at the base of your big toe, causes discomfort, and can impact your mobility. Your big toe moves out of proper alignment and points toward the rest of the toes on your foot, as opposed to being parallel to them.
As we noted, a bunion is a progressive condition where symptoms worsen as time goes on. If you’re experiencing increasingly painful and limiting bunion symptoms, our provider team at Premier Foot & Ankle offers a range of treatment options, including an innovative surgical procedure that banishes your bunion and restores your comfort and ease of movement.
We noted earlier how many people are affected by bunions, but you’re more likely to develop one if:
You may notice a bump on your foot but initially disregard it because you’re not feeling any discomfort. However, as time passes, you may experience worsening pain, redness and inflammation on your bunion, toe joint stiffness, and corns or calluses on your big or second toe, where they rub together because of the bunion.
A bunion also alters how your big toe and foot move, which poses difficulties with walking, running, and playing sports. If your bunion becomes severe, you may even have trouble finding shoes that fit properly and accommodate it.
Bunions essentially throw your entire foot out of alignment, which sets you up for other problems and uncomfortable, sometimes unsightly, symptoms, like hammertoe (which puts you at risk for permanent toe deformity). This is why seeking treatment is important.
If your bunion isn’t severe, we may recommend conservative treatments such as over-the-counter pain medications, orthotics, shoe splints or padding to protect your bunion, physical therapy, or steroid injections.
If your bunion symptoms are more advanced, we offer a progressive treatment called multiwave locked system (MLS) laser therapy, which reduces inflammation and scar tissue while encouraging healing through more rapid cell turnover.
Although traditional bunionectomy has been favored in the past, Premier Foot & Ankle offers a game-changing surgical treatment to our patients. Lapiplasty® 3D Bunion Correction® has far surpassed traditional 2D osteotomy surgery for bunion correction, which involves cutting away bone and performing a partial fix.
Traditional bunion surgery makes your bunion look better, but it doesn’t properly address the root cause (an unstable, misaligned joint), and you’re laid up for a couple of months as you recover.
Lapiplasty 3D Bunion Correction stabilizes your entire foot foundation while correcting all of your bone, as opposed to just a portion of it. In other words, we completely normalize your bone’s alignment with the help of titanium plates.
In addition to this fundamental benefit, the procedure offers numerous other significant advantages:
If Lapiplasty 3D Bunion Correction sounds attractive to you, watch our video and view our impressive recovery timeline at the bottom of the page on our website.
We’re here to help and would love to discuss Lapiplasty 3D Bunion Correction and answer all your questions. To set up an appointment to learn more, contact one of our five convenient Texas locations today. Call us or book online anytime.
