Looking for relief for your foot/ankle pain? Choose somewhere else. I had the worst medical…read moreexperience I've ever had at this place last month.
I have been having ongoing pain in my foot/ankle for months and had already been to see my primary care physician with no relief for my issue. I found this place through my insurance website and made an appointment in mid-December 2025 in the hopes that seeing a specialist would help me.
From the moment I entered the exam room, things didn't go well. The nurse was snippy with me because I did not want to have radiographs taken. My primary care physician had already done that, and they showed that nothing was broken. If viewing the radiographs was necessary for the doctor, I felt the person with whom I made the appointment should have made sure to ask me to have them sent over ahead of time, and I told the nurse that. The nurse told me that they normally don't ask you to send them over because "the doctor likes to take his own." Ok... except I wasn't paying for something for the second time when I knew it wasn't going to show anything anyway, so I refused, and the nurse was visibly irritated with me.
I then saw Dr. Buddecke. After speaking with me for a couple minutes, he declared I had plantar fasciitis, because it is evidently very common and "everybody gets that." He did no exam, relied on no medical testing or imaging, and did not even watch me walk or stand. His solution was that I needed to ice it, which I had already been doing for weeks, all while the pain worsened. When I gave him a skeptical look, he snapped. He questioned me what would I prescribe? was I a doctor? because he'd been a doctor for twenty plus years, so of course he knew everything about everything. By the time he was done, he was pretty much yelling at me as I sat in stunned silence. It was extremely unprofessional behavior. It's also ironic how his twenty plus years of experience gave me the same generalized solution as a five second google search on pain relief methods.
The nurse then came back in and attempted to sell me $50 shoe insoles because evidently better arch support would be the answer to all my problems. They couldn't possibly know anything about the shape of my feet or arches since they never examined me but ok... These were foam, one-size-fits-all/trim-to-fit insoles like any found in a drugstore, only four times more expensive. I asked what made them different from cheaper insoles, and the nurse couldn't/wouldn't answer that question, so I chose not to buy them. The nurse then wrapped the arch of my foot in an ACE bandage and left the exam room. No have a nice day, happy holidays, call us back if the pain persists, nothing, just more rude behavior. I made my own way out of the office, no closer to a cure or solution than when I had arrived.
I ended up getting billed $89 for "surgical outpatient services - strapping of foot or ankle" for the ACE bandage the nurse wrapped around my foot. In total, I ended up paying well over $100 (even after insurance) to be yelled at and for an ACE bandage. I have since returned to my primary care physician, who ordered an MRI of my foot/ankle and sent me to a different orthopedist. It turns out I tore a tendon and a ligament in my ankle but did absolutely nothing to my plantar fascia. No amount of ice and arch support was going to fix this.
If you actually have plantar fasciitis and don't mind being treated rudely and overpaying, maybe this place would be able to help you. Otherwise, stay far away.