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In 2009, our patient was seriously considering amputation as a solution to end the debilitating pain in her badly damaged ankle. She delayed this drastic surgery because of a move to San Francisco. In 2012, she came to see Dr. Stone who was able to preserve her ankle. Aggressive physical therapy played a big part in her recovery. " I did everything he said ....and that focus on gaining movement, breaking up scar tissue, preventing new scar tissue from forming ...and incredibly positive environment has been huge in my recovery."

Her story: 1997 she had shattered her ankle in a bad fall. Over the next 15 years she had several surgeries on her ankle, nothing had really helped. She was in severe pain on a daily basis, a 6-8 on a scale of 1-10. In early 2008 she had a subtalar fusion - a surgical procedure that fuses the heel bone (calcaneus) to the talus (bone that connects the foot to the ankle). While this had helped with some of the pain, it was still unbearable. This is when she began to research amputation. She delayed the decision because of a new job opportunity bringing her to San Francisco. In 2012, a friend recommended that she see Dr. Stone. Dr. Stone repaired the ankle and our physical therapists worked with her on rehabilitation. "I am here today visiting after 3 years and have since gone snowboarding and hiking. I walk without thinking about my ankle - I have 0-2 pain on a daily basis" "It's really a first-class clinic. I wouldn't go anywhere else at this point"

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In 1997 so 19 years ago now, I fell about 15 feet and shattered my right foot and ankle and broke my pelvis and sacrum and I had an emergency surgery right away the same day. And then over the next 15 years I had several surgeries, um, several just kind of general cleanups kind of to see what was going on and in the joint or in the joints. And then eventually had a fusion, um, up until that was in early 2008. So up until then I was in severe pain, six to eight on a daily basis, on a scale of one to 10. And, um, nothing had really helped at all. Nothing had helped at that point. And then I had a subtalar fusion in 2008 and that took away one of the types of pain I had. I would say I had two to three different types of pain at that time.

So that was huge and that it reduced that pain. So that helped us isolate that the main ankle joint still had a significant amount of damage and did some more cleanups, some injections, tried various things, physical therapy and nothing was really helping. By 2009, I talked to my surgeon about amputation and was fully um, prepared to amputate. He gave me the names of, and he's a great surgeon. He helped me a lot. Um, I had several opinions. I recommend anybody get several opinions and um, uh, he, I talked to him about amputation. He was very, um, very gracious about it. Had said he actually thought about it for me but didn't want to bring it up because it is such a huge decision and gave me the names of several of his patients who had made that decision. And one woman in particular with similar age as me, early thirties, and I talked to her several times and um, she did not regret her decision at all.

She was very, very happy that she had gone through with the amputation and was running again and able to have an active lifestyle, didn't have Phantom pain. Um, given my circumstance, I was a little obviously nervous about that route. Um, particularly because of Phantom pain cause my pain was so significant, but hers had been significant as well, but mine had been 15 years, which was a really long time and it makes me more likely to have potentially have Phantom pain. So, um, I still decided to proceed with that route in the sense of really researching it and met with, um, looked at different prosthetic limbs and was very, getting very serious about that as my plan because my quality of life was so poor and being so young, I wasn't interested in just kind of living on painkillers and that wasn't working for me at all.......

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