Surgical repair and reconstruction for ankle instability, tendon damage, arthritis, and complex deformity.
An ankle that gives way, aches daily, or never recovered from an old injury doesn't have to be permanent. Modern ankle surgery — from arthroscopy to full reconstruction — can restore stability and function.
If your ankle is dictating what you can do, a surgical consultation will tell you exactly what's fixable — often more than you'd expect.
Request an AppointmentChronic ankle instability — the ankle that keeps giving way on uneven ground — often responds to structured rehabilitation, bracing, and proprioceptive training without surgery. Those measures get a genuine trial here, not a token one, because a meaningful share of unstable ankles stabilize with correct rehab.
When the supporting ligaments are truly incompetent and conservative care has failed, ligament repair or reconstruction restores stability. For ankle arthritis, the ladder runs from bracing and injections through arthroscopic treatment to fusion or total ankle replacement — decisions that depend on your age, activity level, deformity, and goals. Dr. Panchal completed fellowship training in reconstructive rearfoot and ankle surgery specifically for this category of problem.
Repeated sprains, a sensation of the ankle giving way on uneven ground, persistent swelling months after an injury, catching or locking in the joint, and pain that has not responded to a proper course of therapy all warrant evaluation.
Ankle arthritis presents differently — stiffness that is worst in the morning, deep aching pain with weight-bearing, grinding, and progressive loss of motion. Both deserve imaging, because what looks like simple instability sometimes turns out to be a cartilage injury that changes the plan entirely.
Recovery varies widely by procedure — from a few weeks in a boot after arthroscopy to several months of staged rehabilitation following reconstruction or fusion. What does not vary is that you get a week-by-week plan before surgery, so you can arrange work, driving, childcare, and travel around real expectations rather than guesses.
The rehabilitation phase does as much for the final outcome as the operation. Restoring strength and proprioception is what prevents the instability from returning, and it is the stage most often cut short. We set functional milestones rather than dates so progression is earned rather than assumed.
Dr. Panchal performs select hindfoot procedures through minimal incisions under live X-ray guidance. This brief clip shows a retrocalcaneal exostectomy — surgical footage stays blurred until you choose to view it.
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