Beautiful heels on X-ray

X-rays are a very useful tool in medicine and podiatry.  The first X-Ray was taken on December 22, 1895.  Podiatrists use X-rays to find pathologies, confirm findings and plan surgeries.  X-rays of the foot and ankle help determine whether a bone has been fractured or injured or damaged by conditions such as infection, arthritis, or other disease. 

Rolando M Melendez, DPM in Jamaica, NY and Corona, NY offers in-office X-ray diagnosis, this way the we can confirm diagnoses of bone and joint the problems the same day.  This allows for a more proactive and specific treatment to be initiated.

Rolando Melendez, DPM in Jackson Heights, NY, Jamaica NY and Corona NY can help you with your toe pain or any joint pain in your feet. Because we want you to keep doing all the fun things you like to do without having pain in your feet!

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Oprah's bunions

Bunions are a common deformity of feet.  People get bunions for many reasons but genetics is the most common.  Symptoms vary from pain on the joint to pain at the bony prominence.  The bunion deformities can occur on the inside of the foot (regular bunion) and/or outside of the foot (Tailors bunion) 

Oprah Winfrey has both, a regular bunion and a Tailors bunion, in this case this deformity is call a Splay foot.

Conservative treatments include padding and wider shoes.  Surgical treatments are more curative of the deformity.  Bunion surgery or bunionectomy is one of the most common procedure done by podiatrist.  

Rolando M Melendez, DPM in Jamaica NY is here to help you with all your foot problems.  We want you to continue doing all the fun things you like to do without pain on your feet!!!

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Forefoot surgery, easy stuff!

The majority of forefoot surgeries are perform on outpatient bases in a surgical center.  

Forefoot surgery include 

• bunionectomy, 
• hammertoe toe correction, 
• tailors bunion correction
•  excision of soft tissue masses

For any Forefoot surgery expect:

·         1^st-3^rd week:  limited and protecteAd WB with a surgical shoe, (coach-bathroom-bed), Rest, elevate, ice (20min in, 20min out), anti-inflammatory

·         4^th week: Begin ROM exercises

·         3^rd-6^th week: active WB, transfer to tennis shoe progressively

·         4^th week : return to sitting job,

·         5-6^th week: return to walking job