The PODdoctors with Dr. Dauphinee and Dr. Hussain

In this episode of The PODdoctors podcast, Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, speak with Dr. Ramnik Singh, a podiatrist from the UK. Dr. Singh shares what it’s like being a podiatrist from education to scope of work. He also talks about why the biggest need for podiatrist is diabetic wound care. QUOTES:...

In this episode of The PODdoctors podcast, Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, speaks with Dr. Jordan Meyers, a podiatrist at Raleigh Foot and Ankle. They talk about the TayCo brace that is used for ankle problems. They discuss the features of the TayCo brace and the benefits of using it.   QUOTES: “It pretty much works like a canned boot or a fracture boot in the s...

In this episode of The PODdoctors podcast, Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about rheumatoid foot, an autoimmune disease that affects the joints. They talk about the development of DMARD medications and how they help control deformities in patients.   QUOTES: “If I was looking at just one jo...

In this episode of The PODdoctors podcast, Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about Tailor’s bunions. They talk about treatment options and what you can do with your Tailor’s bunion.   QUOTES: “A Tailor’s bunion, people assume it’s a bump, it’s a growth, it’s a tumor. Can you knock it down? Bu...

In this episode of The PODdoctors podcast, Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about ankle arthroscopy, also known as ankle scope. They discuss how this underutilized technique can help with interior ankle pain, such as synovitis. They walk through the process, including portal placement, the most i...

In this episode of The PODdoctors podcast, Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about neuroma pain and Morton’s Endoscopic Nerve Decompression (MEND) surgery.    QUOTES: “The downside and the risk are extremely low and the upside when it works makes this an incredibly effective procedure.”...

In this episode of The PODdoctors podcast, Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, walk through a recent tendon laceration surgery. They discuss the surgical procedure to repair this common injury.   QUOTES: “You want a locking type suture that will help hold the tendon.” -Dr. Raafae Hussain [03:37] “If...

In this episode of The PODdoctors podcast, Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, provides a general overview of “The Great Imposter”: gout. A crystalline disorder, Gout is caused by uric acid crystals forming inside the joint and affects 4-6% of the U.S population. The PODdoctors discuss the multifaceted p...

In this episode of The PODdoctors podcast, Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, provide a general overview of common ankle pain and ankle problems. They discuss traction neuritis, posterior tibial tendon dysfunction, Os trigonum syndrome and other types of pain people will feel inside the ankle.   QU...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, walk through a recent hallux rigidus surgery. They also discuss when they decide to do surgery to address the arthritic joint pain and what type of surgery to pursue. QUOTES: “If you’ve got a joint issue, and you’re asking a lot of that joint because of the flexibility...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, walk through peripheral nerve injury and provide a general overview of some of the different classifications of nerve injury. They discuss some of the tests they conduct for nerve injuries and treatment options. QUOTES: “If you’ve got a motor injury, you’ve got up to a...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, dive into one of their cases and walk through Haglund’s surgery that removes the dreaded “pump bump.”   QUOTES: “The paratenon has been argued should you dissect it free or should you not dissect it free. I’ve gone both ways and I feel in my mind that the less tra...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about Haglund's deformity and the associated achilles tendonitis. They discuss the conservative and surgical treatment options.   QUOTES: “As far as surgery’s concern, there’s no conservative treatment to get rid of the bone. So when you have a golf ball in t...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, highlight a surgical technique that they use to fixate Jone fractures.   QUOTES: “I tell them if it’s good apposition and you can stay off of it, we can definitely try conservative, but more often than not, these fractures are gapped just on the mechanism of how t...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about bunion surgery. They walk through the surgical procedure and share their thought process along the way. QUOTES “You can see the curvature of that proximal phalanx or if they just got a lot of soft tissue pulling on that toe, you’re just going to get a better...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about recurrent neuroma, a post-op complication from nerve entrapment removal, and the various treatment options. QUOTES: “The issue, we believe and have believed for decades now, is that the ligament is the problem.” - Dr. Damien Dauphinee [03:11] “Here’s what a...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, address a question from a subscriber on bunion treatments. They talk about basic bunion procedures as well as different incision placements and the suture button technique.   QUOTES: “If you don’t fix the boney aspect well the first time, all the soft tissue corre...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about plantar plate repair, also known as crossover toe. They discuss what happens with crossover toes and how the conservative therapy and surgery options to repair it.   QUOTES: “It’s a complex balancing act between the ligaments and the plantar plate holdi...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about the very common fungal infection: tinea pedis, also known as athlete's foot. They discuss the different types of infections and home remedies and topical solutions to treat them.   QUOTES: “A lot of this has to do with whether your immune system can fig...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about Ganglion cysts, a fairly common musculoskeletal problem. They describe what they see in the clinic, how they determine if a lesion is a Ganglion cyst and how they use aspiration surgery to treat it.   QUOTES: “One does not simply pop a Ganglion cyst.” -...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about the different types of bunion procedures and how they decide which procedure to do.   QUOTES: “Bunion is not a bony growth.” - Dr. Raafae Hussain [03:27]   “When patients are saying, ‘Well Doc, when do I need to get this fixed?’ I usually say, ‘Loo...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about pediatric flat foot, one of the more common foot problems they see among kids. They discuss what they typically see with this condition in the clinic and how they can treat it with conservative measures and surgery. QUOTES:   “So general rule of thumb,...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, give an in depth look of charcot reconstruction. They first provide a recap of what charcot is and why it’s such an issue for diabetic patients. As they walk through the surgery procedure, they share the thinking process with each step.   QUOTES: “So just getting...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, discuss one of their most interesting cases in the last few weeks: lateral ankle ligament with peroneal tendon repair and groove deepening surgery. They break down this common surgery with patients who have chronic lateral ankle pain.   QUOTES: “The lack of range...

Dr. Damien Dauphinee, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and Dr. Raafae Hussain, fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeon, talk about Heloma Molle, a soft but painful skin lesion. They discuss where they typically find this callus on the foot and why it’s important to address the underlying bone issue. They also talk about the conservative and surgical options to treat the problem.  ...