Foot and Ankle Pain Management

Drs. Rock G. Positano, Neel Mehta, Andrew J. Rosenbaum, and Amitabh Gulati provide authoritative clinical guidance from areas of expertise in musculoskeletal podiatry, pain medicine, physiatry, and orthopaedic surgery.

What is the content of "Foot and Ankle Pain Management" ?

This first-line resource covers relevant anatomy, pain conditions, and treatments in a well-organized, easily referenced manner—offering a complete approach to care for foot and ankle specialists, pain medicine specialists, primary care physicians, pediatricians, and other clinicians who encounter patients with foot and ankle pain.

• Addresses common causes of foot and ankle pain including sports-related injury, diabetes, cancer (including treatment-induced pain), arthritis, neuropathy, infectious disease, and more
• Covers the muscles, bones, and nervous system of relevant anatomy
• Describes the epidemiology, pathology, and diagnosis of each pain condition, along with appropriate treatments
• Includes a dedicated treatment section that covers the science and methodology of specific treatments in greater detail
• Ideal for clinicians in primary care, podiatry, pain medicine, physiatry, sports medicine, orthopaedics, neurology, neurosurgery, rheumatology, oncology, and pediatrics

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Who are  the authors of "Foot and Ankle Pain Management" ?

Rock G. Positano  DPM, MSc, MPH, is Director and Founder of the Non-surgical Foot and Ankle Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, and Director and Founder of the Joe DiMaggio Sports Medicine Foot and Ankle Center at Weill Cornell Medical Center. 

Dr. Positano is nationally known for his non-surgical approach for the treatment of foot disorders and is frequently cited in the media. He is also a researcher and author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and authoritative texts.

His research interests include the development of non-surgical treatment programs for foot and ankle problems; development of new prescription foot orthoses prototypes for the non-surgical treatment of foot and ankle problems; creation of joint preservation strategies for the foot, ankle, knee, hip and back; and establishment of public health protocols to preempt the development of foot and ankle conditions.

Neel Mehta, MD, Medical Director of Pain Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, is board-certified in both Anesthesia and Interventional Pain Medicine. His goals are to optimize pain control, enhance functional ability as well as physical and psychological well-being, and quality of life. He focuses on musculoskeletal pain of the back, neck, and joints, neuropathic disorders, and cancer pain. His clinical interests lie in the minimally invasive procedures to treat musculoskeletal pain, including various types of injections, intrathecal pump therapy, and spinal cord stimulation.

Amitabh Gulati, MD is an anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician practicing in New York City. He is Director of Chronic Pain, specializing in interventional  cancer pain management, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, USA. He is a faculty member of the Weill Cornell pain management fellowship in New York City, as the Director of the Weill Cornell Pain Medicine Fellowship.

He regularly gives lectures and teaches at workshops on topics involving ultrasound guided pain procedures, sympathetic blocks in cancer pain management, and non-invasive neuromodulation techniques. His current research involves the use of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for the treatment of neuropathic pain and the use of both Platelet Rich Plasma and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for pain management and functional improvement in the cancer pain population.

Andrew Rosenbaum is a fellowship-trained foot and ankle specialist in the Bone & Joint Center, NY USA. He is also the Director of Orthopaedic Research at Albany Medical College. He has presented his research both nationally and internationally.