About Rockingham Foot and Ankle Associates
A Main Street foot and ankle office in Reidsville, built on an old-fashioned idea: sit down, hear the whole story, explain what's wrong in plain words, and treat it close to home.
Foot and ankle care on Main Street, not down the highway
Rockingham Foot and Ankle Associates treats foot and ankle problems for patients across Reidsville and the rest of Rockingham County, from a teenager's ingrown toenail to diabetic wound care that needs watching every week. The office is at 307 S Main St, Reidsville, NC 27320, and the point of being here is simple: most foot care, including diagnosis, procedures, and follow-up, can happen in town instead of at the end of a drive to Greensboro.
People around here are not quick to see a doctor about their feet. They finish the shift, work the season, buy a wider pair of boots, and keep going. That is nothing to apologize for, but it does mean many patients arrive having lived with a problem for months or years. The first job of this practice is to trade all that managing and guessing for an actual diagnosis, starting from wherever your feet are today.
What happens when you come in
The visit starts with your story: where it hurts, when it started, what makes it better or worse, and what your feet have to hold up to. A twelve-hour shift on concrete, a morning in the garden, and a walk around Lake Reidsville each load a foot differently, and the plan has to fit your actual days. Dr. McKinney then examines the skin, nails, joints, tendons, circulation, and nerve sensation, and usually watches you stand and walk, since plenty of problems only show themselves when the foot is carrying weight.
X-rays, ultrasound, and lab work are ordered when they would change what happens next, not as a habit. If a test is worth doing, you'll hear why before it's done.
How treatment gets decided
Almost every foot and ankle problem has a ladder of treatments, and this practice climbs it in order. Simple measures come first: footwear changes, stretching, padding, support, and quick in-office procedures. Injections and advanced therapies come next when they earn their place. Surgery sits at the top of the ladder, used when a problem truly needs it, and as a foot and ankle surgery specialist Dr. McKinney can carry care through that step rather than sending you elsewhere. At every rung you'll know what the option involves, what it should accomplish, how long recovery takes, and what happens if you'd rather wait. Patients with diabetes, poor circulation, or numbness get extra caution at every step, because small problems move fast in those feet.
Dr. Benjamin McKinney, DPM
Dr. Benjamin McKinney is a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) and a specialist in podiatric foot and ankle surgery. A DPM's training runs the opposite direction from most of medicine: instead of studying the whole body and then narrowing down, it is devoted from the start to the foot, ankle, and lower leg, through four years of podiatric medical school and hospital-based residency training focused on that one region. The result is a physician whose everyday work is the bones, joints, tendons, nerves, and skin below the knee, and the surgical and non-surgical care of all of them.
Dr. McKinney practices on Main Street in Reidsville as part of a small group practice, which is exactly how it feels to be a patient here. You see the same doctor at every visit, the front desk knows who you are when you call, and the person who examined your foot is the same one who follows it through treatment. If you want to understand not just what to do about your foot but why, you will be in good company.
Come in and get answers
One visit is usually enough to know what's going on. Call (336) 342-5701 or book online.