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Podiatry

Foot & Ankle Doctors Providing Better Foot Health

Healthy feet carry a person through their daily activities. However, those who suffer from heel pain, warts, ankle instability, plantar fasciitis, or bunions may have mobility and foot health problems. Our podiatry team can help you get the relief you crave. Starting with a diagnosis of what is causing your foot pain, our specially trained staff has the experience and technology to return you to pain-free mobility and better foot health.

Conditions Treated

Our podiatrists treat:

  • Bunions: Bony, often painful humps at the base of the big toe
  • Corns and calluses: Thick, hard, dead areas of skin usually found on pressure points of the foot
  • Cysts: Bulging, sac-like structures that are filled with pus or liquid
  • Foot and ankle arthritis: Inflammation of the small joints in the foot and ankle causing pain and stiffness
  • Hammertoes: Deformities that cause any of the toes to bend or curl downward instead of pointing forward
  • Heel spur: A bony protrusion on the underside of the heel bone caused by a calcium deposit
  • Ingrown toenails: The corner or side of a toenail grows into the skin causing pain, redness and swelling
  • Nerve pain: Neuropathic pain in the feet is caused by nerve damage, typically as a result of conditions like diabetes or from medication side effects, or injuries.
  • Plantar fasciitis: Dull or sharp pain at the bottom of the heel or sometimes at the bottom mid-foot area
  • Warts: An infection of the outer layer of skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) that can spread to other areas of the body

Services We Offer

  • Arthroscopy: This surgical technique uses only small openings to examine and repair a joint in the ankle or foot.
  • Foot and ankle fusion: A surgical procedure in which bones are fused, or connected, with screws to eliminate motion in the foot or ankle. This creates a permanent joining of the bones.
  • Fracture repair: Serious foot and ankle fractures, or broken bones, need surgery to repair the fracture as well as any ligaments, tendons and muscles that were also damaged.
  • Surgical Treatment of Bunions, including Lapiplasty procedure: 3D bunion correction same day procedure that corrects the root cause of bunions.
  • Tendon repair: This procedure is designed to restore a partially or fully torn tendon in the foot or ankle.
  • Total ankle replacement: This joint replacement operation helps patients with advanced ankle osteoarthritis.

Contact Us

To reach the Wabash General Hospital Podiatry Department, please call (618) 263-6400.

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