Bunion Surgery Recovery Time: What to Expect
For millions of people, bunions are a real, often painful problem. In the U.S. alone, there are around 1.1 million people each year who are surgical candidates for bunion correction. Until recently, the standard bunion surgery (called open osteotomies or fusion) involved cutting and realigning bone, often with large incisions and a long recovery period. But over the past decade, there’s been a clear shift towards newer, implant-based systems like the HyperFlex. These come with smaller incisions, less soft tissue damage, and much shorter recovery times. In general, bunion surgery recovery time takes 10-12 weeks to recover from, assuming you