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Originally Posted by Buster Brown  I had hammertoes on both my feet which caused me pain and tingling on occasion. On the advice an Orthopedic surgeon I had the surgery to shorten the toes. I now have a toe that completely twists around on itself and more nerve tingling and occasional pain then I ever did before surgery. My surgery was over nine years ago and the area still bothers me. I believe based on my own experience that a declawing surgery performed on an animal would perhaps result in similar issues. I go through life not complaining as well but it still bothers me every day. |
I worked for orthopedic surgeons for years and one of them performed hammertoe corrections and none of his turned out badly like that. Their surgical result was nice straight - and for a change - painfree toes. It sounds like your surgeon did not perform the procedure correctly or something else went very wrong but our patients toes did not hurt any more once they had correction and the great deformity gone. Oh, they still might have some arthritis in the non-operated joints. So, maybe, done correctly, declawing is not painful in cats or dogs, once they heal from surgery.