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Heel
Pain?
If you wake up in the morning with severe pain in your heel stand
on the ground and later in the morning after sitting for a while
you stand again and you get a repeat of the painful episode.
There
is
a Answer
We at the American Foot Clinic are
using a very successful method to
alleviate this pain without open surgical methods or gadgets. We're using a sclerosing
agent to
ablate the nerve on the inside of
the heel. This is an alcohol product mix with an anesthetic solution in a series
of seven injections.
To relieve any feeling of anxiety
of pain, we are using a "computerized
needle", that when injected feels about the same as a hair
being pulled out of your arm. From
that time on, we are numbing the
area with the small machine and Iidocaine (numbing agent).
When the area is numb, we then place
'/a cc to3/4 cc of the solution around
that nerve. The nerve has an affinity for the alcohol, and
over a period of time the sheath
around the nerve is destroyed. By
doing this, we've taken our patients from a pain threshold of
10/10 to 1/10 or no pain.
I recently saw a patient that I performed
a surgical procedure on one foot. and the sclerosing technique
on the other. The patient said she had no further pain in either
foot. She said she preferred the injection technique over the surgical
technique.
We're getting over a 90% success rate with this technique. There
is no time out of work, except for your appointment. There is no
surgical experience in hospital or surgery center that you have
to deal with.
To further enhance the success we fabricate a custom orthotic
at the beginning of the injection series. This is a cost of S 150.
Insurance usually doesn't pay for this part of the procedure. Therefore,
it would be your responsibility.
Call us if you're interested in more information for this exciting
new treatment without in hospital surgery.
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