New York athletes do not have a season so much as a sidewalk. Runners, dancers, court players, and the people who walk 15,000 steps between meetings all load the same 26 bones — then ask them to do it again tomorrow. Sports podiatry at Millennium Podiatry is the practice of keeping that system available.
Dr. Jonathan Shalot brings reconstructive, minimally invasive, and sports-trauma training. Dr. Suzanne Levine brings decades of work with dancers, media, and anyone whose job is done in a heel. The overlap is the point.
Sports podiatry is not a separate license. It is a way of examining a foot that has a deadline — a race, an opening night, a season. We diagnose the tissue, fix the load that injured it, and give you a return that is staged to the sport, not to a generic “six weeks.”
It includes:
We want the shoe you train in, the shoe that hurt you, and an honest account of the last four weeks of load. The exam is sport-specific: hop tests, relevé, single-heel rise, cutting, whatever reproduces the problem. Imaging follows the exam, not the other way around.
If the diagnosis is a stress fracture, we will say so even if the race is in three weeks. A DNF is better than a season.
We clear you by tissue capacity, not by optimism.
Skipping 3 is how people meet us the second time.
A sports-focused evaluation typically $200–$500 depending on imaging. Orthotics, injections, and procedures are quoted after the diagnosis. Medically necessary care is often insurable. Performance-only services may not be.
Sometimes, in a form that does not feed the injury. We will name that form. “Train through it” is not a plan.
For a foot and ankle mechanical problem, a podiatric sports exam is the right first stop. We refer out when the problem is not ours.
Adolescent athletes with growth-plate and overuse injuries are evaluated case by case. Call the office.
The license is the same. The questions, the tests, and the return-to-play plan are not.
