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For those out there with severe foot pain I am getting cryosurgery done on my feet on Wednesday. The podiatrist freezes a nerve in your foot with the idea that this will stop the pain. This is a better option than making deep and large incision in your foot. I wish a doctor would do that with my shoulder/neck pain. The doctors do something called "ablation therapy" where they cook the nerves to kill them. If you have some chronic pain the theory is that you kill the nerves to stop the pain. We will see if it helps me. There are many new procedures out there but you will not find them at the VA. You have to go afield and keep trying with alternative treatments. I have noticed that at the VA they are about 10 years the cutting edge in most areas of treatments for many conditions. Cryrosurgery for prostate cancer in common, but I don't think my VA does it. They insist on using the old techniques because they want to use the vet as a teaching tool for medical students. We are that expendable and held in such low esteem. They might use vets as crash dummies next.

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