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When wound care alone is not enough, surgery is often the step that saves the foot: draining an infection, removing infected bone, correcting the deformity that keeps causing ulcers, or removing only the part of the foot that cannot heal. These articles explain the operations, how to prepare for them, and what recovery and life afterward look like.
Limb salvage surgery
An ulcer on the tip of a bent toe is usually a pressure problem with a small fix. How a flexor tenotomy works, who it suits, what the trials found and the trade-offs.
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Limb salvage surgery
A tight calf can keep an ulcer under the ball of the foot from healing or staying healed. Who the operation suits, what the trials found and the trade-offs.
9 min read
Limb salvage surgery
Keeping the heel and ankle can mean walking in a shoe instead of on an artificial leg, but a transmetatarsal amputation has to heal to pay off. What the studies show and what tips the choice.
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Limb salvage surgery
A collapsed Charcot foot can often be realigned and fused so it rests flat again. What reconstruction achieves, who it suits and what it asks of you.
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Appointments
A visit can show what is keeping the wound open and what will help it close: careful wound care first, and surgery when it is the step that saves the foot. See us within a day or two for any foot wound that isn’t healing, especially with diabetes.