Avera Wound Care Team Adds Surgical Approach to Help Slow-Healing Wounds
Helping diabetic patients with slow-healing wounds. That’s what the Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center’s multidisciplinary wound-care team has done for years. This year, they added a podiatrist, Peter Bellezza, DPM, whose surgical approaches provide new options for patients with slow-healing wounds.
Black Hills Doctor Redefining Bunion Treatment
Lapidus bunionectomy has long been a mainstream protocol for treating bunions (hallux valgus). But, even though it can often provide effective and long-lasting correction of the most common forefoot deformity, many patients who needed it chose not to have it.