marycoughlin
03-07-2008, 12:55 PM
my daughter is 13yrs and has flat feet, the dr. wants to cut the top of the foot and add a screw in there to give her a arch. She did get bad bunions from this. What is the name of this surgery
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Sponsor hey19 03-07-2008, 01:06 PM Did he call the joint he wants to stabilize the "tarsometatarsal joint"? If so, I just had that done. my daughter is 13yrs and has flat feet, the dr. wants to cut the top of the foot and add a screw in there to give her a arch. She did get bad bunions from this. What is the name of this surgery jcpelly 03-07-2008, 06:28 PM Maybe the Cotton procedure? That's done by cutting the bone, adding a wedge shaped bone graft to create an arch. Can be combined with an Evans calcaneal procedure which works well. Hope you've tried conservative treatment first. hey19 03-08-2008, 09:07 AM I've never heard of the Cotton procedure, but from what you say, that sounds reasonable. Can you explain it more? I agree, though.... conservative treatments first. I have a lifelong history of flat feet and am now 50 years old, with a history of being very active on these bad feet. I finally had my PTT snap a couple of years ago and had to have the surgery to correct that, and a whole lot else. One of the things the doc did was insert two screws in the area I think Mary's talking about to stabilize that joint. It looks good so far.... like it's created an arch. I'm 11 weeks post-op and now bearing weight, so we'll soon see how it worked out. |
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