PODIATRIST DISCUSSES BUNIONS IN YOUNGER PEOPLE

“Bunions aren’t as common in younger people, but they are usually genetic, and usually when they start to develop in younger people, they’re just not as painful and bothersome until you get older,” said Brian Dix, DPM, a podiatrist and orthopedic surgeon with Avera Orthopedics.

 

Dr. Brian Dix

 

“What’s unique now, though, is we used to have to make all those cuts by hand. So now there are jigs and instruments out there which we can put onto the foot and help get the correction that we need. But it’s reproducible every time to get the correction to correct the second and third metatarsals and then to correct the bunion,” Said Dr. Dix.

 

Source: Dakota News Now [10/17/23]

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News