Foot pain isn’t the problem. It’s how your body is aligned.

We fix the root cause so you can move naturally.

1 in 4 people are misaligned. Most are treated for the wrong problem.*

Restoring motion. Restoring life.

Before the surgical consult

Most patients have had the same three conversations.

  1. Year 0 First visit · primary care or podiatrist

    “You have flat feet.”

    Orthotics. Supportive shoes. The orthotics come out; the pain comes back. No one names the structural cause.

  2. Year 3–5 Specialists, in isolation

    “It’s back again.”

    Heel pain. A tendon that won’t calm down. A knee that aches after standing. Each diagnosed as its own problem — by its own specialist — in isolation from the others.

  3. Eventually The surgical consult

    “Time for surgery.”

    The choice is presented as binary: keep managing, or cut bone and fuse the joint. Months of recovery. Motion, gone. That is where most patients are told the conversation ends.

One joint. Upstream of everything.

The heel pain, the tendon pain, the knee ache — they are not three problems. They trace back to one joint sitting in a collapsed position. That joint is upstream of everything else the patient has been treated for.

93%+

of patients with chronic plantar fasciitis showed this same structural misalignment on imaging.

Kimmel & Nafziger

Before and after: the joint above the heel bone, shown collapsed on the left and realigned on the right.
Before and after — the joint above the heel bone.

Manage it. Correct it. Or cut bone.

Orthotics manage the symptom. Fusion eliminates the joint. The HyProCure® device corrects the deformity while preserving native anatomy.

Two legs side by side — supported by a shoe on the left, unsupported on the right, showing the dependence orthotics create.
Orthotics
3.2% of the deformity corrected Temporary

Managed, not fixed.

  • $300–$600+ per pair, replaced every 2–5 years
  • Limited evidence for long-term correction Rome et al., 2010 · Cochrane Libr
A gloved surgeon's hand holding the HyProCure® titanium stent — showing its true, fingertip size.
HyProCure®
98.96% implant success at 8 yrs Fu et al., 2025 · Orthop Surg

The path that fixes the cause.

  • Native joint motion preserved — no bone cut
  • Weight-bearing in 3–4 days — no cast
  • RCT-equivalent to fusion, higher satisfaction
Surgical drill over an ankle marked for fusion — the bone-cutting path.
Fusion surgery
Non-
reversible
bone cut · motion lost for life Permanent

Bone cut. Motion gone.

  • Months of recovery — cast, crutches, revision risk
  • Nonunion and bone-death risk documented in the literature

109 publications. Independent. Multi-generational.

Every claim on this page is sourced to independent, peer-reviewed evidence — with author conflicts disclosed when present. Below are the studies that anchor our argument.

Landmark study
The largest HyProCure® cohort ever published.
Fu et al., 2025 · Orthop Surg
1.04% pediatric implant removal at 8 years
4.37% overall removal across all ages
As much as
18×

more radiographic correction than orthotics — in the same patients.

The HyProCure® device reduced the talar – 2nd metatarsal angle by 58.92%. Orthotics, in the same feet, reduced it by just 3.20%.

Steber & Kolodziej, 2015
As good as
Matches

bone-cutting surgery on clinical outcomes — with higher family satisfaction.

HyProCure®-style correction matched lateral calcaneal lengthening osteotomy on AOFAS scores (both p<0.001) — with significantly higher family satisfaction.

Tahririan et al., 2021 · Int Orthop
As proven as
+19.6pts

Maryland Foot Score gain — independently replicated.

MFS rose from 69.5 to 89.2 at 1 year — replicating the originator's results.

Agnew et al., 2023 · JFAS

Three of many analyses shown. Over 20 years of peer-reviewed clinical evidence — spanning knee-loading biomechanics, long-term durability, and procedure outcomes — is available in our full evidence dossier. Request the full dossier →

Under 20 minutes. Walking in 3–4 days. Back on your feet.

A patient in a post-op walking boot, on crutches, walking out of a GraMedica Surgical Center of Excellence the same day as her procedure.
1 Under 20 minutes

The procedure.

A soft-tissue, outpatient procedure under local anesthesia. You go home the same day.

A family walking together along the shoreline — casual, everyday pace.
2 3–4 days

Walking again.

Most patients are walking within three to four days of surgery.

Tahririan et al., 2021 · Int Orthop
Trail runners on a mountain ridge at sunrise.
3 2–3 weeks

Back to full activity.

Return to running, sport, and full activity in two to three weeks.

Fu et al., 2025 · Orthop Surg

Individual recovery varies. Your surgeon will walk you through what to expect.

Built to give surgeons a third path.

Twenty years ago, a Michigan-based foot & ankle surgeon noticed a pattern in his clinic. Flatfoot and joint misalignment above the heel were one of the most common structural conditions he saw — in kids, in working adults, in athletes — quietly driving plantar fasciitis, tendon pain, and downstream knee and hip wear. Yet patients had only two options: manage it forever with orthotics, or cut bone.

So we built a third.

HyProCure® is a titanium implant placed in the natural space above the heel bone — in under 20 minutes, through a 1.5 cm incision, reversible, motion-preserving.

Our mission is simple: give every surgeon who treats this condition access to the technology that fixes it. Today that means 46 countries. Tomorrow it means every operating room where a patient is being told to live with it.

Joe Monroe Chief Executive Officer