Topaz Foot Surgery Side Effects

Patient tells about her experience with topaz surgery for plantar fasciitis.

Topaz foot surgery side effects.

A 51 year old female asked. In the procedure the doctor uses a special needle like wand to create two or three dozen small holes a quarter inch apart in a grid pattern over the plantar fascia. Topaz surgery also called topaz coblation therapy is a medical procedure that treats chronic plantar fasciitis and achilles tendonitis. See your surgeon.

Topaz surgery for plantar fasciitis. The topaz technique is tailored to each individual case with some patients being treated with the wand through a small incision in their foot and others being treated over the skin. Across the heel and down the side of my foot what s going on. Here are some next steps.

Bruising pressure inflammation infection may have damaged the local cutaneous nerve. The topaz wand delivers radio frequency energy to the affected tendon which breaks up the scar tissue and helps improve blood flow to the damaged area. Love this information and want to learn more about your foot condition. Therefore surgery is recommended only to certain patients whose symptoms have lasted for 12 months or longer and whose pain has not responded to more conservative treatments.

55 years experience general surgery.