After 15 years of pain and countless diagnoses: Berlin foot surgeon dr. Gottlieb, helps patient back to a self-determined life
Pain in the feet usually has complex causes that often remain undiscovered during a superficial examination - Ms B. also had to make this experience. For fifteen years, her everyday life was characterised by foot pain, no doctor could help her. She was all the more relieved that treatment with the foot specialist Dr Tonio Gottlieb, MD finally brought a solution!
Many diagnoses, but few insightful findings
Ms B. hoped for a cure for a long time in vain. She consulted around 30 doctors and also visited several leading Berlin clinics. The diagnoses - slipped disc, rheumatism, narrowing of the spinal canal - were as varied as the therapy attempts, but neither acupuncture, cortisone injections nor physiotherapy had any effect. Instead, the pain worsened so that the senior could hardly leave the house. The appointment arranged by RBB at the practice of "foot surgeon Dr Tonio Gottlieb is her last hope.
Dr Gottlieb, MD approaches the problem with a holistic approach and special examination methods
Ms B. keeps all the doctor's letters and X-rays from the past 15 years in her practice in Zehlendorf. But the experienced foot surgeon leaves the documents aside for the time being to get his own picture. He specialises in the treatment of all kinds of foot problems, e.g. fractures, hallux valgus or flat feet, and attaches great importance to a holistic diagnosis, since many foot diseases can stem not only from the feet themselves, but also from static and metabolic processes in the whole body.
Dr Gottlieb, MD has her complaints described in detail and then invites the senior citizen to his specially made foot platform. Ms B. climbs a few steps to reach the transparent platform with mirrors, where the surgeon can examine her feet from all sides. He then measures the body statics, checks the leg length, the hip position and also the conductivity of the nerves.
Ms B. has never experienced such a precise and intensive examination in 15 years. The therapy recommendation also amazes her: a simple stretching exercise is supposed to finally eliminate her foot pain after so many years?
Dr Gottlieb, MD explains: "The combination of hollow feet and a shortened Achilles tendon means that the entire body weight rests on a very small area - and it is precisely this overload that causes the pain that has persisted for 15 years. Foot surgery or medication is not effective here; instead, the Achilles tendon should be gently stretched. He shows her the right exercise on the spot. So the patient leaves the practice with new hope and concrete tips on what she can do herself to finally - as she wishes - "walk like a normal person again".
Finally pain-free after 15 years
How effective the foot surgeon's expert diagnosis and therapy recommendation was is shown three quarters of a year later when she sees the RBB team again. Ms B. comments enthusiastically on the old recordings: "Exactly, that is the exercise and it is worth its weight in gold! Every day after getting up, she stretches her Achilles tendon as recommended and with that, she says, "the day is already half saved." She is finally mobile again and can enjoy her daily life pain-free!