So, you wouldn't believe what the doctor found inside my feet. The tibial nerve runs through the tarsal tunnel, then it splits into three different nerves (the medial plantar nerve, the lateral plantar nerve, and the calcaneal nerve, and those three pass through their own tunnels. The tibial nerve and its three nerves in my feet actually split BEFORE the tarsal tunnel higher up on my ankle. This was found in both feet. The doctor said this occurs in about 5 percent of people.
He also found an extra muscle below my ankle on my left foot that was pressing up on the tibial nerve, so he removed it. It was about the size of my thumb. You could actually see it through my skin, but I never thought anything of it. I just though it was my "Arnold" muscles.
And, he examined my x-rays I brought from two years ago, and showed me where my fourth and fifth toes have only two joints instead of three. Apparently, mine became fused during formation. It's this way in both of my feet. I never even knew this, and having only two joints has never been a problem for me.
I will post the pictures he took of my surgery and the video as well. Warning...if you have a weak tummy, you may not want to look. I'll put a warning on it at that time. The doctor said he would be sharing these images at a conference/seminar at the end of September!
More to come...
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These descriptions and pictures are from Dr. Dellon, emailed to me. They are of only the left foot, although the right foot was done also. The surgery at the ankle is the Tarsal Tunnel Decompression/Release, and the one at the arch is where he is correcting the hack job that was done to me by the previous surgeries (on both feet).
He wrote separately:
next photo we need is one of you smiling and walking in about 4 weeks
ha ha
Dr Dellon
Left foot mapped for surgery
left foot
small retractor is under the tibial nerve and tibial artery/vein note there is a nerve, medial plantar with a blue vessel loop on one side while the blue vessel loop is on the lateral plantar nerve on the other side these have divided higher up on your leg, and therefore occupy twice the volume within the tunnel as they should , making you very likely to have tarsal tunnel syndrome the small nerve to the heel, the calcaneal nerve is also trapped and is in the third vessel loop the extra muscle is seen as the purple object at the foot end of the tarsal tunnel
left foot
extra muscle excised (This is just part of the muscle; the amount was about the size of my thumb according to another picture he did not send to me.)
the divided branch lies below held in a clamp the blue loops are around the motor branch and the branch to the 4/5 webspace that were saved
the clamp has implanted the nerve into the muscle in the arch
shows the medial plantar nerve with the divided ends that went to the stump neuromas
shows the nerve being implanted
He also found an extra muscle below my ankle on my left foot that was pressing up on the tibial nerve, so he removed it. It was about the size of my thumb. You could actually see it through my skin, but I never thought anything of it. I just though it was my "Arnold" muscles.
And, he examined my x-rays I brought from two years ago, and showed me where my fourth and fifth toes have only two joints instead of three. Apparently, mine became fused during formation. It's this way in both of my feet. I never even knew this, and having only two joints has never been a problem for me.
I will post the pictures he took of my surgery and the video as well. Warning...if you have a weak tummy, you may not want to look. I'll put a warning on it at that time. The doctor said he would be sharing these images at a conference/seminar at the end of September!
More to come...
****
These descriptions and pictures are from Dr. Dellon, emailed to me. They are of only the left foot, although the right foot was done also. The surgery at the ankle is the Tarsal Tunnel Decompression/Release, and the one at the arch is where he is correcting the hack job that was done to me by the previous surgeries (on both feet).
He wrote separately:
next photo we need is one of you smiling and walking in about 4 weeks
ha ha
Dr Dellon
Left foot mapped for surgery
left foot
small retractor is under the tibial nerve and tibial artery/vein note there is a nerve, medial plantar with a blue vessel loop on one side while the blue vessel loop is on the lateral plantar nerve on the other side these have divided higher up on your leg, and therefore occupy twice the volume within the tunnel as they should , making you very likely to have tarsal tunnel syndrome the small nerve to the heel, the calcaneal nerve is also trapped and is in the third vessel loop the extra muscle is seen as the purple object at the foot end of the tarsal tunnel
left foot
extra muscle excised (This is just part of the muscle; the amount was about the size of my thumb according to another picture he did not send to me.)
the divided branch lies below held in a clamp the blue loops are around the motor branch and the branch to the 4/5 webspace that were saved
the clamp has implanted the nerve into the muscle in the arch
shows the medial plantar nerve with the divided ends that went to the stump neuromas
shows the nerve being implanted
