Good morning, this is Dr. Lam, we'll take a tour of the main office today okay, so let's go.
This is what it looks like outside. Let's take a tour.
Like we did a tour of Fort Myers and Estero office, can't let them outdo us, right?
This is te main office, here we go in through the doors.
On the first floor, come on in.
This is the waiting room, we're gonna walk right on in,
come on in,
here is the check in area right here
come on in, right here is the check out area,
come on down
we're gonna take a look around the administrative office, this is the hallway,
patient offices, right here,
these are patient rooms -- one of them -- they all look pretty much the same.
And we have our x-ray area, our newest digital x-ray system here so that's it.
Come on in, we have the excellent 3D CT scanner.
We actually stand on it for the CT,
it's different from all other CTs because the other ones you're lying down,
this one you're actually standing.
Why does it help?
Because when you have a foot and ankle problem,
it's usually when you're standing when you have the problem so we can see this
with our newest CT scanner
I'm gonna come on down, computer stations,
we have laser for nails
and come on right down to our physical therapy department
and look who we find, our 2 physical therapists, EJ and Cassady.
Here we go these are nice beautiful chairs here.
The latest technology and again we'll take care of you.
Anything you need for foot and ankle needs, stretching for your plantar fasciitis,
slant board works really well.
One of the most common problem we see, wouldyou say, EJ right?
Definitely.
Plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, a lot of neuromas,
pain and tingling in the feet
Post-op, yeah, you know we have a great physical therapy team to doctor's physical therapy,
we deal with post-op also with pre-ops too, let's say some patients we try to avoid surgery
so with physical medicine we've been able to avoid a lot of surgeries in neuromas.
A lot of people don't think that, don't even think about physical therapy for neuromas.
Yeah they've responded really well to therapy and just trying to get like the smaller
muscles under the foot to get a little more flexible to take some pressure off of that
neuroma so you don't have to go through surgery, hopefully.
Yeah you know we try to avoid that surgery complications up to 50% for neuromas so no
matter who does it, and post-ops too so if you come here preoperatively and you fail
that, you have to go surgery, they know how you were preoperatively and they'll get you
back onto your feet again postoperatively.
So it's a good continuation of care, I would say.
Yes, for sure.
And a lot of stuff that we deal with are like you said plantar fasciitis which could be
taken care of with a lot of physical therapy modality.
That's why we get a lot of second opinions because you know, we fail to utilize physical
therapy a lot in our profession, I will say.
I even had family members of other podiatrists that that come here for second, third opinions,
see what we can do for them and all it is is adding physical therapy, physical medicine,
the proper shoe wear.
So they can talk to you about proper shoe wear, you know I would say a majority of our
neuroma patients, it's the wrong shoes.
Yeah, definitely. I mean footwear is definitely a big issue there, people that maybe have
a really low arch and aren't wearing something that provides them that proper support.
So education is going to be a big key and then just educating on how to properly do
kind of a home treatment and set you up with a home exercise program so that way you know
how to kind of treat yourself once we finish with therapy too.
I think a comprehensive approach is great for our patients.
Also, with a physical therapist right here, we can also look at x-rays together, discuss
cases, and I've had you guys on rounds with me in the office and you get to see
what we get to see in the office, which you guys don't see a lot of times, right?
How patients initially present, how we diagnose the problem and so we go all the way from
diagnosis to treatment to surgery to postoperatively altogether streamlined.
And if we see somebody we don't think is right here we check with Dr. Lam sometimes he'll
check on them and see them right away in the office so that's great too.
Exactly, either myself or one of my other doctors who are ready to see you right away.
So it's great to have this interaction between doctors, physical therapy and
podiatric physician surgeons.
We have them all available for you.
Thank you for coming on our tour today.
Come see us.
See you then.
Bye.