hammer toe correction surgery- by using different procedures

The deformity of hammer toe relates to the abnormal toe of a person with downstream bent on the end of the toe. Basically, this kind of disease occurs with the second toe but sometimes it may also occur in third, fourth and the fifth one. If a person suffers from hammer toe will get instant treatment, he would have to face lots of problems. Usually, the hammer toe is considered as most common and painful deformity, which cause due to wearing unfitted shoes, high heel sandals etc. With all these possibility, the toe is bended for a long period of time that results in the formality named hammer toe.

Causes of Hammer toe

The deformity can be cause by-

• Nerve damage
• Foot injuries
• Rheumatoid arthritis and bunions
• And people suffer from diabetes or poor circulation may also have this deformity

Corns and calluses, inflammation, redness, burning sensation and pain while wearing shoes, all are the symptoms that tell about the deformity to the person.

Therefore, in order to treat these kinds of deformities, there are several surgical and non-surgical treatments are provided by the experts. A surgical treatment known as hammer toe correction surgery takes place like a outpatient procedure, this facilitate a patient to go home the same day as surgery. Therefore, doctors give anesthesia to asleep you during the treatment or simply give a medicine to make your foot go numb temporarily. This surgical treatment provides to make changes in soft tissue even sometimes to bone and joints also. Usually, surgeons use two types of procedures to provide surgery that are

Joint resection (arthroplasty)

In this treatment, they remove the part between two joints of the toe in order to reposition the toe in flat or straight way.

Bone mending (fusion)

• It includes the removal of entire joints available in the toe in order to allow the bucket joint re-positioned as flat and the bones of the toe ends to mend with each other.

• Things to happen after surgery

• Special types of shoes are given by the doctor to you in order to wear after surgery that helps you to walk anywhere easily.

• the doctor considered you to elevate you foot at the heart level for the first few weeks after getting surgical treatments.
• It will take two to three weeks to stitches to be removes after getting the treatments.

• You should do proper exercise as considered by the expert in order to get proper movement of your toe.

Recovery

It depends on the type of surgery, that how long it will take to get your past life back. Usually, recovery takes few weeks.