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Arthritis sufferer..Freeze foot option?

  • 05-09-2013 8:17pm
    #1
    josiepepper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭


    Does anyone know anyone that has had their foot frozen? Friend of mine is in crucial pain daily due to arthritis in her foot (had plate put in 20 years ago and cant have it removed...) option shes been given now is to have her foot frozen...its pretty drastic BUT she doesnt have many options!! Just wondering of anyone knows anyone that has had this done?? An if so how it went?


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  • #2
    calfmuscle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭calfmuscle


    josiepepper wrote: »
    Does anyone know anyone that has had their foot frozen? Friend of mine is in crucial pain daily due to arthritis in her foot (had plate put in 20 years ago and cant have it removed...) option shes been given now is to have her foot frozen...its pretty drastic BUT she doesnt have many options!! Just wondering of anyone knows anyone that has had this done?? An if so how it went?

    sorry to hear about your friend. By frozen do you mean a nerve block?


  • #3
    josiepepper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭josiepepper


    Id assume its freezing all the nerves in the foot to eliminiate the pain...but also all feeling in her foot! By the sound of it she will be able to stand on the foot but that would be it....its kinda hard to get a sense of exactly what the end result would be!


  • #4
    username123
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    Frozen or fused? Fusing joints is usually last resort stuff. They would then be 'frozen' into position so the joint movement would no longer cause pain.


  • #5
    josiepepper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭josiepepper


    Yes reckon thats what it is...do you know much about the success of this, anyone thats had it done???


  • #6
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    Not the foot specifically but I have spoken to people online who have had other joints fused. And my father in law has a partially fused ankle.

    The arthritis pain will be relieved but it's important for your friend to question the doctor regarding physical limitations afterwards and, most important, chances of causing new problems as a result. If foot range of motion is frozen, will that cause ankle problems or knee problems as those joints may now be used in different ways etc.

    You might check healthboards.com, it reaches a wide audience, you might find someone with experience of the procedure there.


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