Chronic Recurrent Foot Pain, Surgery to Remove a Bone, Systems of Thought, and How Not to Overlook the Obvious

A man with over 2-decades of complaints related to an old traumatic ankle injury as a consequence of a motorcycle crash now faces a critical decision: surgery or no surgery to fix his problem? Except that it might not work. The uncertainty is backed by a history of a multitude of past incomplete or failed treatments and the reality of a worsening problem that includes increasing pain, loss of balance, and change of lifestyle. Join me in this podcast as I discuss how preconceived obstacles to recovery realized in a hypothetico-deductive reasoning model can be eliminated or reduced with a varied problem-solving tool set.   

This is our sixth story in an ongoing series. It illustrates lessons learned from a transformative moment in a PT's career. Like all of our stories, it is drawn from real-world experience.