Welcome to CITYFOOTCARE.COM,
the Internet home of Drs. Emanuel Sergi and Lawrence Silverberg, the most compassionate and skilled foot doctors in the New York City Metro area and the country.
Dr. Silverberg is Board Certified by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery. Our office is conveniently located in Midtown Manhattan near Grand Central Station.
We take great pride in providing excellent medical care along with great bedside manner and take the extra time to explain your problems and the treatment options in detail.
At City Footcare we treat all problems related to the foot and ankle. We use state of the art diagnostic and therapeutic equipment.
The doctors believes in patient education, and patient participation in their care. We take pride in spending time with our patients and listening to them. Our patients never feel rushed. We also take the time to explain patients problems in detail and spell out explicit treatment plans.
When your problem requires surgery, you can rest assured that you are in the hands of a competent and highly trained surgeon. Drs. Sergi and Silverberg have been called the best foot surgeons in NYC and the best bunion surgeons in NYC. The doctors perform all foot and ankle surgery including traditional open surgery, minimally invasive surgery, laser surgery, radio frequency surgery and extra-corporeal shock wave therapy. Drs. Sergi and Silverberg are experts in all aspects of foot surgery. They are very detail oriented from start to finish. A good surgical outcome starts prior to entering the operating room. After expertly diagnosing patients’ conditions, they plan out the procedures with great skill. In the operating room they are skillful and precise. they also take into consideration aesthetics with incision planning and plastic surgery type suturing techniques.
They is hospital and surgery center affiliated.
To resolve all of your foot and ankle problems, simply look around this site and make an appointment with Drs. Sergi and Silverberg today. Your feet will be glad you did!
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I am scheduled for hammertoe surgery and would like a second opinion ..when do you do the minimal surgery only on tendons(sof tissue) not bone? I was told that if your toe cannot be straightened when I try to push it into place than I need more traditional bone surgery ..is this true?
Hi Nancy.
Yes this sounds true. If the deformity is rigid such that you cannot straighten the toe by hand, it definitely requires bone work. Even if you can straighten it by hand, it often requires bone work as well to fix the problem and prevents recurrence. Sometimes you can perform just soft tissue work to fix hammertoes but only in mild, flexible situations.
I have hammertoes due to shoes and long hours of work over 65 hours per week.
a doctor wants to cut tendons and and told me toes would go straight. Surgery Friday and stiches out Monday and since I am on your site I want to know if by cutting the tendons and stiches out on Mon. that my fooot would heal completley in 4 days. and work on tuesday. I would appreciate it. please email me at robertajg.ok@sbcglobal.net
Hi Roberta.
Let me start with: “if t sounds too good to be true it usually is”!
I occasionally do this tendon only repair for hammertoes. It only works in situations where there are minor hammer toes and they are flexible. Flexible means that I can easily straighten the toes out by hand completely and they are not rigidly contracted.
Assuming your hammertoes fall under that description, the recovery for this type of surgery is much longer than you describe. First of all, taking the stitches out three days after surgery is not advised. It takes longer the the skin to heal. I almost always leave the stitches in 12-19 days. Theoretically, you could eave the stitches in longer and still return to activity. However, going back to a job that requires you to stand is not advised at four days. The absolute minimum would be 7-10 days I would recommend for my patients. 10-14 days would be better. Even then, you should expect some pain and swelling.
Hope this helps. Dr. S.
I had hammertoes surgery two month ago it was painful the second time I had the first surgery in 2006 I am this over I just had my pins out last Tuesday it still sore and can’t walk that well yet but it is getting better
Dr. Silverberg,
I had bunion removal and toe shortening 5 years ago and you are absolutely correct and the only doctor I have seen that addresses the excess skin problem. That is the one thing people comment on is how the excess skin along with some other issues post op has created make my toes look like they have arthritis.
The additional problems I ended up with due to the surgery not turning out well were as follows. All four of my toes are crooked and curl towards my big toes. Also, the toes going towards my big toe has created tailor’s bunions that hurt. A screw was put in my big toe on my right foot that hurts off and on.
My questions are how bad would it be on my feet to have an additional surgery to correct these problems? I notice the removing of excess skin involves sutures on top of your feet and how much scarring is involved as I thought the whole idea of sutures on the side was to avoid visible scars?
Thank you for your time.
Last year I had bunion and hammertoe surgery on my left foot. One surgery ended up turning into 3 surgeries and I am still in need of a 4th surgery. One of my toes has a pin in it that is too short and sticking up and one of my other toe has a tendon that is making the toe droop. I am hoping that you can tell me of a surgeron in the Chicagoland area that you would highly recommend. I no longer have faith in the surgeron that performed the other surgeries. Thank you.