He had a revolutionary way of doing bunion surgery that is pain free? You will be walking in your velcro boot the day you get home and driving the next day? Minimal recovery time and no pain? Sounds too good to be true to me, but he is apparently very popular.

Well, I'd ask for more details and how/why it differs from traditional surgeries, etc.

He had a revolutionary way of doing bunion surgery that is pain free? You will be walking in your velcro boot the day you get home and driving the next day? Minimal recovery time and no pain? Sounds too good to be true to me, but he is apparently very popular.

It does sound too good to be true! But wouldn't that be awesome? I would ask a lot of questions and ask for references from patients who have had the procedure.

I know, way too good to be true, right? I won't mention who it is cuz I know I can't, but his site has tons of info. Videos, testimonials, before and afters. He is one state over from me.

I asked my PT in my town about who he liked and he said no one, so I'm going to have to travel, at least 2 hours.

I'm in the research stage, so I have so many questions.

I don't know about the pain-free part, but I was in a velcro shoe and allowed to walk from day one. It ended up being painful to walk, so I was on crutches for 2 days before walking on the foot.

I'd be concerned about the driving part. My doctor is pretty liberal about these things, and he even waited to have me drive for a month and a half when my driving foot was done. He didn't want me to have to slam on the brake and cause a lot of pain/damage.

Have you visited him? I'd do that first and see what kind of a feeling you get from him. No matter what, though, there's going to be some pain. No one can guarantee against that, especially when some react to pain a lot worse than others.

Where in AZ are you? A friend of mine lives in Phoenix and saw the doctor the Cardinals use. She really liked him. I can get his name if you want.

I would definitely look into that doctor, cause I had a very similar surgery done on my left bunionette. Pretty well right after the procedure was done, I was walking in a velcro sandal and to be honest, there was very little pain (if any), in my case. I still used crutches out of choice, just as a precaution, I wanted to heal ASAP. I don't know about the driving thing tho, my doctor told me 2 weeks if the surgery was on the left foot, 6 weeks for the right foot. But this "too good to be true" surgery does exist, I had it done. My doctor is in Toronto, Canada but it's worth looking into, there's a good chance this is the same procedure I had done.

When I had my bunion surgery 10 weeks ago my dr initially told me I would be walking right away with 4 pins sticking out of the inside side of my foot with a stabalizing bar. Well when I woke up I was in a "half cast" up the back of my leg to just below my knee. When he went to do the surgery he wanted my bones started to shift so he had to go to "plan B" which was a Lapidus procedure with one internal pin and one external through the top of my foot. I was on crutches totally NWB for 2 weeks and a rocker boot for 6. So sometimes what is planned doesn't always work out. Good luck with your research and let us know what happens.

I would be very leary myself. If he's promising "no pain" is he really fixing the problem?

Well....I had my surgery Tuesday morning and I still am in lots of pain. He sent me home with a velcro shoe and told me I could walk on it IF I had to but otherwise stay off of it for three days.
I made a very common mistake and did not get ahead of the pain before the nerve block wore off. Ouch..Worst pain that a Kidney stone (not really)But it is bad. Good luck on the painless surgery.

I'm in Flagstaff but would very much consider going to Phoenix. I'm sure the Dr. for the Cardinal's is very good. I am very interested interested!!

It's Dr. David Brown in Phoenix...good luck!

Wow!....sounds so familiar...... and also too good to be true. As was the case with me and what my doc assured me. Sure, with only one foot being done you'll be able to kinda hobble around after a few days or so but still have lots of propping even then...but walk? As in normally?? No. Once the second of my feet was done only a few weeks later I truly was stuck. As in on the bed, butt was numb, head was going crazy...eeek...don't even like to think about!

Don't get me wrong...what he's saying would be WONDERFUL but I'm just being realistic. I would ask lots of questions and find out EXACTLY to the tee what he was going to do. Run that info by this group and you'll find some fast answers.

I personally was so mad at the doc who performed my surgery for giving me such unrealistic expectations I cannot even tell you. This group truly got me through! Yes, I'm very glad I had the surgeries done now and have been meaning to write a postop review now that it's been a little over a year on both feet(and doing great by the way after quite a bit of he**) but having the doc set up such expectations led to very huge disappointments. Reread some of my posts from a year ago and you'll see. I was fit to be tied!

...Thankfully new year, new feet that feel wonderful and glad it's over.:)

...I hope everyone has a very happy New Year!
cindy

No! Anything that sounds too good to be true, is.