Foot & Ankle Conditions We Treat in Marble Falls
Conservative, Non-Surgical Care for the Foot and Ankle — Serving the Highland Lakes and the Austin Area
The conditions below account for most of what walks through our door. Whether the pain is recent or has been with you for years, the same principle applies: foot and ankle problems almost always have a mechanical root cause that can be identified and treated without surgery. Approximately 95% of our patients are successfully treated without an operation.
Find your condition below and read about what causes it, why standard care often fails, and how we approach it differently. If you’re not sure which condition matches your symptoms, just call our office — we’ll help you sort it out.
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Conditions We Treat
Click any condition below to learn more about how we evaluate and treat it.
Heel Pain & Plantar Fasciitis
Sharp morning heel pain, pain after sitting, pain that won’t resolve with stretching or store-bought inserts. The most common foot complaint we see — and one of the most successfully treated without surgery.
Learn More →Arch Pain & Flat Feet
Aching arches by mid-afternoon, pain on the inside of the ankle, a foot that’s slowly rolling inward. Adult-acquired flat foot is progressive — but it’s also reversible if caught in time.
Learn More →Achilles Tendonitis
Stiffness and pain at the back of the heel, especially in the morning or after rest. A condition that responds beautifully to the right protocol — and that surgery rarely solves the way patients hope.
Learn More →Foot & Ankle Arthritis
Joint pain, stiffness, and reduced range of motion that worsens with activity or weather changes. Most arthritis pain — even at the threshold of surgical recommendation — responds to a properly engineered conservative protocol.
Learn More →Sports & Tendon Injuries
Overuse injuries, chronic tendon pain, and recurring sports-related foot and ankle problems. Whether you’re a competitive athlete or a Lake LBJ pickleball player, we get you back to what you love — without surgery in the great majority of cases.
Learn More →Non-Surgical Bunion Care
A drifting big toe, a widening forefoot, and pressure-point pain along the side of the joint that’s gotten worse over the years. Bunion surgery is one of the most commonly recommended — and most commonly avoidable — operations in the foot, when the underlying biomechanics are addressed properly.
Learn More →Forefoot Pain & Plantar Plate Injuries
Pain in the ball of the foot, a toe that’s drifting out of alignment, the feeling of walking on a marble. Plantar plate injuries are commonly misdiagnosed — and commonly recommended for surgery they don’t actually need.
Learn More →Neuropathy Pain Treatment
Burning, tingling, numbness, or shooting pain in the feet — whether from diabetes, idiopathic neuropathy, or compression syndromes like tarsal tunnel. Symptoms that respond meaningfully to the right targeted protocol.
Learn More →Toenail Fungus Treatment
Discolored, thickened, or distorted toenails that haven’t responded to over-the-counter remedies. Advanced laser therapy targets the fungus directly — safely, with no oral medications or systemic side effects.
Learn More →How We Treat These Conditions Differently
Most foot and ankle problems get evaluated through a surgical lens, because that’s the lens both orthopedic and podiatric specialty training has been built around for the last generation. We approach the same conditions through three different lenses — and for 95% of our patients, that’s the difference between an operation and a return to walking comfortably.
1. Precision Biomechanical Evaluation
Most foot pain isn’t a problem with the painful structure — it’s a problem with how forces are loading through the foot to reach that structure. We evaluate how you stand, how you walk, how the affected foot loads under weight, and how surrounding joints are compensating. The mechanical root cause is what we treat. The pain resolves when the mechanics are corrected.
2. Advanced Restorative Therapies
For chronically overloaded tendons and stalled tissue repair, we deploy Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy to reactivate the body’s own healing signal, Class IV Laser Therapy to reduce inflammation and support cellular repair, and advanced restorative injection therapies delivered with ultrasound precision. These get the body to finish jobs it gave up on years ago — in ways medication can’t.
3. Ultrasound-Guided Diagnostic Precision
Diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound lets us watch tendons and soft tissue work in real time, under load, in the exam room. We see exactly what’s thickened, torn, fluid-filled, or compressed — and we deliver targeted therapy precisely where it’s needed. No guessing. No “blind” injections. No relying on a static MRI to interpret a dynamic problem.
Meet Dr. Frank J. Henry, DPM, FACFAS
Dr. Henry has been in practice for more than thirty years — the past eight serving the Highland Lakes and Hill Country, after a long-established practice in South Texas. He is a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon with full unrestricted scope including forefoot, rearfoot, and ankle, and a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. He has personally treated more than 40,000 patients across his career.
He studied biomechanics directly under the founders of modern foot and ankle biomechanics — Drs. Root, Weed, Orien, and Sgarlato — and built his entire clinical practice around the principle that most foot and ankle pain has a mechanical root cause that can be identified and treated without surgery.