I'm looking into having my subluxing tendon in my ankle repaired. Does anyone have any opinion on choosing an MD vs a DPM that are both specialized in foot and ankle surgery?

When I had foot surgery, I was referred by my DPM to a big city doctor (MD) who had done a lot of work on college and professional athletes. I couldn't be happier with the results.

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Originally posted by maxwayne:
When I had foot surgery, I was referred by my DPM to a big city doctor (MD) who had done a lot of work on college and professional athletes.

I've had knee surgery and some non-surgical foot and knee treatments. When I was looking for a knee doc and foot doc, I went with the doctors utilized by the large local university's athletics department. I figured if the multi-hundred-million-dollars athletics department trusted their best athletes to them, they were probably pretty darn good. (And luckily both in network with my insurance.)

Going with a "sports medicine" practitioner also helped ensure that they were in the kind of mindset I was after... Fix the problem and get me back in action at 110% ASAP.

Otherwise, especially with joint doctors, you can sometimes run into doctors who specialize more in the late/end of life "just patch them up until they croak" geriatric type of approach.

Ask nurses that work in the OR.

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Originally posted by alreadydead:
Ask nurses that work in the OR.

The two are at different facilities. MD is at Houston Methodist Sports Medicine, DPM is at Baylor St Luke's.

Between the two, I'd go with Methodist ortho.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Between the two, I'd go with Methodist ortho.

Doc, mind if I send you an email?

No mind.

I had my left ankle fused in 2006. I had three severe ankle sprains prior and managed to be walking bone on bone when I first saw my ortho doc.
He gave me three treatment options.
1 - have the ankle fused; 2 - choose a life of pain meds and a wheelchair for the rest of my life; 3 - find another doctor who would perform an ankle replacement surgery. He said I would be back facing option 1 if I went with the replacement. He noted it was designed for little ladies that were not active.
I sought a second opinion and the doc said my first was correct of the 2 to 3 years estimate for a second surgery.
I ultimately when’s with the first doc. He had done about 100 fusions.
I have two screws going in my leg bones and then into the (Talus bone). Plus I had ground cadaver bone and human growth promoter put in between the bones.
Good luck.

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Originally posted by 12131:
No mind.

Email sent.