Advanced, Non-Surgical Regenerative Medicine for Foot & Ankle Pain

Regenerative treatments help your body repair damaged tendons, soft tissue, and nerves without surgery. They fit between basic care (rest, orthotics, bracing, physical therapy) and an operation, so they’re usually the next step when basic care hasn’t fully worked. We offer four options at both offices, and each one is explained on its own page below.

Think of treatment as three steps. Plan A is basic care: rest, bracing, custom orthotics, and physical therapy. Plan B, if Plan A doesn’t fully work, is one of our regenerative treatments, matched to your diagnosis. Plan C is surgery, saved for the cases where A and B haven’t been enough. The middle step gives you real, active treatment instead of just waiting it out.

Candidacy for any regenerative treatment starts with an in-office evaluation and an accurate diagnosis. Not every foot or ankle condition responds the same way to every regenerative option, so Dr. Pinsky and the clinical team match the treatment to the specific tissue involved (tendon, plantar fascia, nerve, fat pad, or wound) and the patient’s health history.

Regenerative treatment isn’t right for everyone. Circulation problems, infection, and some medical conditions can change what we recommend, and we’ll talk that through with you at your visit.

Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) and EMG studies measure how well electrical signals travel through the nerves and muscles of the foot and leg, helping identify whether nerve damage is present and how severe it may be. Skin-biopsy nerve-fiber testing looks directly at small nerve fibers in a small skin sample, which can help confirm small-fiber neuropathy that other tests may miss.

Together, these tools give Family Foot Center’s clinical team objective data to guide whether a patient may be a candidate for nerve-focused regenerative treatment such as Remy Laser Therapy, rather than relying on symptoms alone.