Bunions and Treatment
Bunions is the name given to the visual disturbance that occurs due to the deformity at the edge of the great toe. Bunion deformity usually occurs as a result of familial predisposition, wearing bad quality shoes, weight, and problems such as flat feet or high arches on the patient’s feet.
The reasons that lead to bunions are as follows; Bunions may occur in flat feet, high arching foot structure, genetic infrastructure disease, weight problem, rheumatic diseases and soft tissue problems.
We perform surgical treatment in bunions in case of pain development. We prefer surgical treatment in painful feet, especially in cases where it is difficult to wear shoes, decreased daily activity time in patients, and nerve problems with prominent little finger deformities.
There is no need for surgical treatment in all bunions. Surgical treatment has no place in the treatment of especially painless bunions. We surgically treat bunions in the problem of pain that usually occurs with wearing shoes, and in deformities.
While doing bunion treatment, we make an effort to solve all the other problems that are usually present in the foot at the same time, in the same session. That’s why we try to solve the hammer toe problems and bunionette problems in the same session.
We operate bilaterally in most of the cases in bunion problems. Because, in most of the cases during the operation, we allow you to step on it immediately after the operation. However, in some specific surgeries performed in very advanced cases, there is a process in which we do not allow patients to step on the ground. We prefer this type of surgeries to be performed individually, but as I mentioned above, we perform the operations bilaterally in 80%-90% of the patients.