How to do hallux valgus surgery

Traditional surgery: Traditional surgery commonly used to treat hallux valgus includes soft tissue surgery and osteotomy. This kind of operation needs to make an incision at or around the toe to peel off the skin, joint capsule, nerve and other tissues to remove osteophyte, synovial capsule or osteotomy, so as to correct deformity and relieve pain. Suture the incision after operation and fix it with plaster and steel needle.

Traditional surgery is an early popular surgical method to treat hallux valgus. It is suitable for patients with severe hallux valgus. Generally, spinal anesthesia is used, which has certain anesthesia risk and large incision. If the operation environment is poor, the incision is easy to be infected, and the lesion resection is not clean, the postoperative recurrence rate is high, and hospitalization is needed and the cost is high. Patients are advised to choose carefully.

Minimally invasive surgery: suitable for all degrees of hallux valgus. Minimally invasive surgery is a surgical method in recent years. After local infiltration anesthesia or combined block anesthesia, a 0.8cm incision was made on the medial side of metatarsal bone 1 to remove osteophyte. After operation, it is an ideal treatment to add a toe pad between 1 and 2 webbed toes and bandage them.

Compared with traditional surgery and minimally invasive surgery, we will find that minimally invasive surgery has certain advantages. The main manifestations are that the traditional operation is more traumatic, easy to be infected, requires plaster fixation after operation, and has slow recovery time and long operation time, while the minimally invasive operation has small incision, little injury, short recovery time, self-care during treatment, and the deformity is not easy to recur and the operation time is short.

Traditional surgical treatment of hallux valgus requires steel needle plaster fixation after operation, which is difficult to nurse. Patients can't take care of themselves, need special care, and need hospitalization after operation, which increases the economic burden and high treatment costs of patients and faces the possibility of recurrence after operation. The cost of follow-up treatment for recurrence is unpredictable.

Minimally invasive surgery only takes 30 minutes, and it is easy to follow the treatment. Patients can take care of themselves completely without hospitalization, which greatly reduces the economic burden of patients, has low cost and good curative effect, and is increasingly trusted by the majority of patients.