|  | Monday, August 22, 2016 | | | | | | | | | | | New technologies exist to permanently correct hammertoes. You don't have to live in pain. Depending on your doctor's advice, you may be back to usual activities within a few weeks. | | | | | | | Got hammertoes but putting off fixing them? Perhaps you know someone who was treated with traditional K-wires and experienced weeks of pins protruding from their toes and the resulting restrictions, risk of infection, and fear of wire removal. Now there's a better solution - the MiToe™ mini implant. | | | | | | If you're like many women, the problem of hammertoes goes beyond your wardrobe frustrations. You're either muddling through daily life in horrible pain or skipping activities you once loved altogether.
In your heart you may know it is time to take action, but you're just too busy to take time off for surgery and recovery. Plus, you've heard the horror stories about the traditional wire treatment that requires you to put your life on hold: the weeks of metal pins protruding from your toes, restrictions on activities like driving, limitations of shoewear, risks of infection or dislodging of the wire, torn bed sheets, and the fear of wire removal in the doctor's office. All these hassles, plus the possibility that the hammertoe can come back, probably make you think, "Never mind, I'll just suffer through the pain."
However, you don't have to live with severe toe pain anymore.
There are new alternatives to traditional hammertoe surgery, including solutions without external wires for permanent hammertoe correction. Depending on your specific condition, your surgeon may recommend MiToe™ implants for several reasons that will benefit you. | | | | Hammertoes can recur, especially if the bones in the toe were not able to fully heal.1 As an alternative to traditional treatments, the MiToe™ implants are implanted within the bone and remain there, within the toe to help maintain the correction. |
| The internal designs of the MiToe™ implants eliminate the discomfort and inconvenience of exposed and protruding wires commonly associated with traditional hammertoe treatments. |
| Ordinary hammertoe procedures often use exposed wires which extend outside the end of toes for 4-6 weeks. Common problems associated with wires include infection where the wires come out of the toe, breakage, pain from hitting the wire, and lack of rotational stability causing the toe to look crooked. In addition, wires require a second in-office procedure to remove them, which can cause a lot of anxiety for many patients. |
| Once inserted, MiToe™ implants remain within the bone, correcting the pain and deformity of hammertoes while eliminating many of the complications specific to traditional treatments. |
| Any surgery requires a period of healing and rehabilitation. However, by eliminating many of the complications and hassles associated with wires, MiToe™ implants are designed to simplify your recovery to get you back on your feet quickly. |
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| MiToe.com discusses solutions for hammertoe treatment. As with any surgical procedure, there are risks associated with foot surgery that you should discuss with your surgeon. These potential risks and complications with products used to treat hammertoes include infection at the incision site, pain, inflammation and swelling at implant site, allergic reaction to implant material(s), loosening or dislocation of implant resulting in revision surgery, deterioration or loss of bone, over-production of bone, blood vessel blockage, and negative bodily response due to implant rejection and/or implant wear debris. In addition, your weight, age, and medical history determine your specific risks. Ask your doctor if foot surgery is right for you. Please visit mitoe.com for more information. |
| 1. | Coughlin M. Lesser toe deformities. In: Surgery of the Foot and Ankle, ed 9, pp. 363-464, edited by M Coughlin, R Mann, C Saltzman, Mosby, Philadelphia, 2007. |
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