The foot and ankle experts at Boston Foot & Ankle are board-certified orthopedic surgeons who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of all conditions that affect the foot and ankle.
Many foot and ankle orthopedic conditions can be treated without surgery. However, when you and your doctor decide that surgery is the best option, you want to go to the hospital that performs more orthopedic surgical procedures than any other hospital in New England.
Boston Foot & Ankle is one of the few practices in Boston to offer minimally invasive foot surgery.
Minimally invasive surgery provides the same or better results as traditional surgery, while minimizing damage to muscle, tendons and surrounding structures. Patients will benefit from decreased pain and scarring and a faster recovery from surgery.
Boston Foot & Ankle is one of the leading centers in the country for total ankle replacement.
Total ankle replacement (or ankle arthroplasty) is a surgical treatment for people with end-stage osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease in which the articular cartilage (the tough but flexible tissue covering the ends of the bones) gradually wears away, or rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammatory condition where the body attacks and breaks down the articular cartilage.
In most cases, ankle osteoarthritis is related to a previous ankle injury and is termed, post-traumatic arthritis. X-rays, CT scans and MRI imaging help determine the severity of the ankle cartilage damage. In a normal ankle, the articular cartilage creates the appearance of a symmetric joint space between the three bones making up the ankle joint (the tibia, fibula and talus). As the articular cartilage wears away, the joint space decreases progressing to bone on bone contact indicative of arthritis.
