Arthritis Treatment in St. Joseph, Kansas City, Parkville & Platte City, MO
Pivotal Foot And Ankle Surgeons is a team of skilled experts who provide arthritis treatment in St. Joseph and Kansas City, MO, region. We’ll focus your care specifically on your needs, highlighting difficulties you might experience, discussing what issues might impact your care, and even offering surgical care methods if more conservative therapies don’t work for you.
Lifestyle Changes
Lifestyle changes can mitigate your potential arthritic pain. For example, you can avoid serious high-impact exercises, enjoy low-impact physical activities, lose weight, stop smoking, eat a healthier diet, manage blood pressure, and lower cholesterol. Our team can help you through each of these steps.
Support Your Feet
We can also teach you various techniques that will reduce your unnecessary pain and minimize potential arthritic complications. By supporting your feet every day, you keep yourself strong and stable. For example, you can work with us to:
- Keep your feet clean to avoid problems with circulation and other issues
- Dry your feet after getting out of the shower to avoid fungal infections
- Moisturize your skin on the feet to soften them and avoid serious issues
- Massage the impacted area regularly to help relieve inflammation and pain
- Apply cold and hot packs to reduce inflammation even further
- Wear braces that might help support your weight a little easier as you walk
In many cases, these therapies are all some people need to manage pain. Others might need more specialized medical therapies and surgeries to recover from their arthritic suffering.
Medical Treatment
At Pivotal Foot And Ankle Surgeons, we provide medical arthritis treatment in St. Joseph and Kansas City, MO. For example, physical and occupational therapy can reduce your suffering, as can various assistive devices. We can also offer painkillers that make your feet feel more balanced and cortisone injections to mitigate immediate problems.
Surgery
Surgery is typically a last-resort treatment modality for arthritis. After all, we know it can be debilitating and require a long time to recover. Midfoot fusion and other surgeries can help mitigate your arthritis symptoms and stabilize and strengthen your foot. We’ll discuss this process to ensure you know what to expect.