Conservative treatments for bunions can include wider and more supportive shoes, orthotics, foot pads, and anti-inflammatory medication. If you have a bunion, you should avoid shoes that are too small and narrow, high heels and shoes that are pointed at the toes. These methods can offer pain relief and slow down bunion formation, but will not correct the structural position of the toe joint.
In situations where a change in footwear is not enough to provide relief, surgical correction may be necessary. Should our podiatrists find that surgical treatment is the best course of action, there are a number of surgical procedures which have been developed to effectively treat bunions and restore the toe joint to a more aligned position.
Weil Foot & Ankle Institute proudly offers two proprietary procedures for treating bunions. These are:
- Lapiplasty: Addresses the instability by fusing a joint in the midfoot.
- Scarfplasty: Also known as the “Scarf Procedure,” this surgery was developed by the surgeons at Weil Foot & Ankle Institute and is now utilized worldwide. Scarfplasty aligns the bones and allows for a shorter recovery time than most bunion procedures. Both feet can be treated in a single surgery and patients can bear weight almost immediately after.
Surgical procedures for bunion removal are usually performed in the outpatient setting, either in a surgical center or hospital. In many cases, other associated conditions such as hammer toes may be corrected at the same time.
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