The pain and functional challenges incurred with foot and ankle problems can often have a dramatic effect on a person's work, health or sport activities, and quality of life.
Advances in technology, newer surgical techniques and differing modalities are enabling us to better address these challenges more fully, be the symptoms from deformity or misalignment, functional or structural, prior surgery, chronic repetitive and cumulative injury. Many of these cases may demand both innovative and integrative solutions, from conservative and palliative recommendations, to surgical procedures.
We focus on getting people back to optimal health, quickly, effectively, and efficiently.
Does one have a structural issue or rather functional symptoms and what exactly is the trigger, the source of these symptoms. Not only does a good history provide this information, but we can use many diagnostic tests (imaging) to help make a definitive diagnosis and therefore enable the appropriate treatment recommendations.
The office is equipped with fluoroscopy and ultrasound initially, if need be we refer out to local imaging facilities, for MRI, CT, and bone scans, nuclear medicine.
Staff privileges (admission and surgical) are maintained at California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), with ongoing continuing medical education and certification requirements. Out-patient ambulatory procedures can be performed at the Tri-Valley Surgery Center.