This brief video compares healing after traditional and minimally invasive foot surgery. The doctor describes minimally invasive surgery as using an opening that resembles a small hole in the skin and gives different recovery estimates for the two approaches. Those generalized timelines require procedure-specific clinical review.
Video transcript
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
The doctor compares healing after traditional surgery with healing after minimally invasive surgery, or MIS. He says traditional surgery may take approximately two to six weeks to heal, while MIS may take about two weeks. He describes the MIS incision as even smaller than a typical small incision, more like a small opening in the skin.
Key takeaways
- The video compares traditional foot surgery with minimally invasive surgery.
- The minimally invasive approach is described as using a very small opening in the skin.
- The doctor gives a two-to-six-week range for traditional surgery and about two weeks for MIS.
