flat feet - Foot Problems Message Board

marycoughlin · 03-07-2008, 10:55 AM

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

hey19 · 03-07-2008, 11:06 AM

Did he call the joint he wants to stabilize the "tarsometatarsal joint"? If so, I just had that done.

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Originally Posted by marycoughlin

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

geggar · 03-07-2008, 04:28 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, 07:07 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.