by Andrew Bernhard, DPM | Oct 30, 2019 | Sports Injuries
With current surgical technology, most ankle fractures are now surgically repaired. When possible, we still practice conservative management of broken ankles, but for unstable or displaced fractures, the ankle needs to be surgically fixated. Ankle Surgery intends to...
by Andrew Bernhard, DPM | Oct 8, 2019 | General Foot Care
Every time that we see an ankle fracture at Eagle-Summit Foot & Ankle, we have to determine a few different things. There are a few different types of ankle fractures, but they tend to follow patterns based on the mechanism of injury. That is to say, when we see a...
by Andrew Bernhard, DPM | Sep 13, 2019 | General Foot Care
Roughly 90% of all feet are flat to some degree. Phrased another way, most people overpronate to some degree. These feet are more prone to problems of hypermobility; they will develop bunions and hammertoes more regularly and have more pain in the posterior tibial...
by Andrew Bernhard, DPM | Sep 6, 2019 | General Foot Care
With the recent opioid crisis striking all of America, many patients are weary of medications that physicians prescribe. For several years, physicians had overly prescribed narcotics because they are safe and effective at treating acute pain, but now we know that long...
by Andrew Bernhard, DPM | Aug 29, 2019 | Sports Injuries
One of the more common traumatic injuries that presents to our offices at Eagle-Summit Foot & Ankle, and emergency rooms nationwide, is the ankle sprain. An estimated three million ankle sprains occur in the United States every year, which is enough for one out of...
