Since there is no bone-breaking involved, there is usually relatively little pain and walking is allowed any time after surgery however there can be slightly more pain expected in the first week. Crutches are optional but useful for the first 1 week.
Protective footwear is worn for walking for the first 3 months until syndesmosis bridge formation is mostly completed. During the same period walking is not a problem but needs to be restricted to less than 6,000 steps a day.
Possible Complications
Due to the fact that no bone needs be broken, the non-bone-breaking syndesmosis procedure can fortunately avoid all complications (mal-union, shortening, transfermetatarsalgia) related to bone-breaking bunion surgeries.
The known complications specific to Dr. Wu's non-bone-breaking bunion surgery in the past 1,000 cases were infection (< 0.5%), early partial recurrence (<5%), early complete recurrence (<1%), late recurrence (unknown from 6 months to 20 yrs after surgery), over-correction (<2%), stress fracture (2%), transfer metatarsalgia (0%) and second toe valgus deformity (0.5%).
Reference information: www.bunioncenter.com
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