Podiatry: Services

With podiatrists located throughout Northern California, the Department of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery employs the latest minimally invasive podiatry therapies to lessen patient discomfort and recuperative downtime.

Examples include:

• neuroma -- a painful, non-malignant, tumor-like growth on the ball of the foot can be treated with injections
  
• plantar fasciitis -- heel spurs and inflammation of the heel is treated with an Ossatron machine providing shock-wave therapy to reduce inflammation
  
• foot fractures of diabetics -- can be treated with pins and transfixing wires that go into the foot along with implantable electronic bone-growth stimulators

Other problems treated by our podiatry specialists

• foot and ankle injuries
  
• sprains
  
• bunions
  
• sports injuries
  
• ingrown nails
  
• corns, calluses and warts