The Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery® (IPNS) specialize in correcting difficult peripheral nerve problems . The most common peripheral nerve problem in the United States of America is neuropathy due to diabetes, chemotherapy, heavy metal poisoning, and unknown causes.  Just as decompression of nerves in the hand, in the carpal and cubital tunnel, can relieve symptoms in the upper extremity,  decompression of nerves in the leg, ankle, and foot can relieve symptoms in the lower extremity in 80% of patients with neuropathy who have these compressions. These procedures were pioneered at the Dellon Institutes. Other causes of peripheral nerve pain are related to joint problems, such as persistent pain after total knee replacement, or shoulder or ankle pain after reconstructive musculoskeletal surgeries. Partial joint denervated, pioneered at the Dellon Institues, can relieve this pain in up to 90% of patients.

Other causes of pain due to peripheral nerve injury can also be helped by our pioneering techniques, such as groin pain after hernia repair, Caesarian section, or abdominoplasty. Pain after breast reconstruction, either in the thorax or abdominal wall, can be helped by relocating the injured nerves. Facial paralysis can be reconstructed, as can certain weakened areas of the hands and foot, such as drop foot, by tendon transfers. Brachial plexus neurolyis can correct winging of the scapula. Often the pain said to be due to Reflex Symptathetic Dystrophy (RSD, or now termed CRPS) is found to be due to injured nerves from joints or nerve compression, each of which may still be helped by our techniques.

The Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery® owe their name to A. Lee Dellon, M.D., an accomplished Plastic Surgeon as well as a Professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland and at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. He has received a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Hand Surgery and is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery.

Dr. Dellon specializes in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy as well as other painful peripheral nerve disorders and has trained many surgeons worldwide in the procedures he has developed to relieve pain.

In order to make his procedures more available to people with peripheral nerve problems, Dr. Dellon has established medical practices nation wide in partnership with qualified physicians from prestigious medical institutions including: Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Harvard.