═══════════════════════════════════════ Lisfranc Injury: Surgery vs Nonsurgical Treatment — Who Actually Needs Surgery? By Sarang Desai, DO — Fellowship-Trained Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon Sports Medicine | McKinney and Flower Mound, Texas ═══════════════════════════════════════ You hurt your midfoot. Maybe you stepped off a curb wrong, landed awkwardly on a teammate's foot, or twisted your foot during a cut on the field. Now someone has mentioned the word "Lisfranc" an

Lisfranc Injury Recovery Timeline: Week-by-Week Guide from a Foot and Ankle Surgeon By Sarang Desai, DO Fellowship-Trained Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon | Sports Medicine Specialist McKinney and Flower Mound, Texas | Serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex --- The first question almost every patient asks me after a Lisfranc injury is some version of: "When will I be normal again?" It's the right question. It's also the one most patients get a vague answer to. They hear "a

By Sarang Desai, DO Fellowship-Trained Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon | Sports Medicine Specialist McKinney and Flower Mound, Texas | Serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex If you injured the middle of your foot and someone told you your X-rays were "normal" — but you still can't walk on it — this article is for you. Lisfranc injuries are one of the most commonly missed injuries in the foot. Up to one-third of them are misdiagnosed on the first visit.[1] The reason isn't

DR. SARANG DESAI / DEEP DIVE The Most Misunderstood Foot Injury in Sports BY DR. SARANG DESAI | Fellowship-Trained Orthopedic Surgeon | Dallas–Fort Worth You've probably never heard of the Lisfranc joint. But if you're an athlete — or you follow professional sports — there's a good chance you've seen a career derailed by an injury to it. Lisfranc injuries are one of the most commonly missed, most frequently misdiagnosed, and most consequential foot injuries in all of sports.