We help people like you every day. Whether you want to run a triathlon or just want to walk around the block without pain. We can help you get your life back now.
From custom orthotics to ultrasound guided ablations (our treatment of choice) to decompression surgery, neurectomy surgery and even peripheral nerve stimulator (an absolute last resort.)
Yes; nerve ablation has a high success rate at resolving the nerve pain problem of Morton’s neuroma. It’s important you know that most nerves require 2-3 ablations to resolve the pain with about 1 out of 5 patients achieving pain resolution with first and only ablation.
(Did you know that surgery has a 35-40% failure rate as nerves will re-grow and get back to hurting again? That’s called a “stump neuroma”)
We have two treatment offices; one in Framingham, Massachusetts and one in Boca Raton, Florida.
80% of the people we treat, travel to us from across the US, Canada and other parts of the globe.
The Center for Morton’s Neuroma does not accept any insurance except one form of Medicare. All evaluations and procedures here are an out-of-pocket expense for patients who do not carry the one form of Medicare.
Two appointments are made for all first-time patients. The first appointment is all about confirming the diagnosis with an ultrasound guided local anesthetic injection. Once we have confirmed your diagnosis, we can then move on to the treatment appointment. For out of state patients, we can have both those appointments on the same day. For Massachusetts / New England based patients, we would see you on two different days.
No. The diagnostic process here is crucial to ensure that the nerve we are seeing on Ultrasound is the real cause of your foot pain. Morton’s neuromas occur in about ⅓ of the population and they are not painful in most people. So just because you have a Morton’s neuroma on ultrasound, and you have foot pain doesn’t mean that it’s the source of your pain. Similarly, just because you have a stomach ache and you have an appendix doesn’t mean every stomach ache is appendicitis. We will not treat any Morton’s neuroma unless we have confirmed that it’s really the problem.
About 30% of our patients come to us with ongoing pain after Morton’s neuroma surgery (usually due to a stump neuroma.) In those cases, the process to diagnose and treat the nerve pain is the same, but it is almost certain that stump neuroma patients will require more than one ultrasound guided ablation.
Some discomfort but not painful. We make the experience as comfortable as possible with local anesthetic and our expertise in doing these procedures. (We have done over 6,000 ultrasound guided ablations.)
Most nerves require 2-3 ablations to resolve the pain with about 20% (1 out of 5 patients) only needing one ablation.
Yes. Our educators will speak with you and get an understanding of your clinical situation, and we will send you an estimate via email.
Typically, we can have you in at one of our offices within a month.
No; that is not a risk of this procedure. We do not cut the nerve so it’s impossible to get a stump neuroma.
Our team has been doing this under the direction of Janet Pearl, MD MSc for about 12 years and we estimate that we have done over 6,000 ultrasound guided nerve ablations.
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