Navigating the path of diabetes requires an understanding of many aspects of health, one of which is foot care. This crucial part of diabetes management helps prevent complications that can lead to serious issues. In this blog post, you’ll find essential steps for effective diabetic foot care.
Understanding the Importance of Foot Care in Diabetes
People with diabetes often experience nerve damage or poor circulation that can affect their feet. These conditions can lead to numbness, making it hard to feel injuries or infections.…
A foot ulcer for a diabetic is any type of injury to your foot that has resulted in an open wound or sore. Your feet are much more susceptible to infection if you are a diabetic, so you need to care for your feet properly. Your foot care is going to be different than foot care for someone without diabetes. Even something as simple as just stubbing your foot can result in something much more serious for someone with diabetes.…
Whenever a patient and doctor discuss the possibility of hammer toe surgery, there is always a question of how likely the procedure is to be necessary. A podiatrist will tell you this varies based on several factors so let’s look at what those are and how they might affect the prognosis for surgery.
Success or Failure of Other Options
Hammer toe surgery is usually pretty far down the list of things a doctor will recommend.…
If you’ve played a lot of soccer, football, or other sports and you have chronic pain in the front of your ankle, you might have anterior ankle impingement. This condition develops from repetitive motion over the years in the form of dancing, running, or kicking. Here’s why this foot condition develops, the symptoms you might experience, and the treatment a foot and ankle specialist might recommend.
Bone Spurs May Cause This Painful Condition…
Your feet are an essential body part as they help you move from place to place. However, rarely do people visit a foot doctor, even if they experience foot aches. You may assume that the pain is due to overworking your feet and conclude that the pain will disappear. Additionally, you may think that the foot pain doesn’t warrant visiting a podiatrist, or you may not know that you have a foot problem.…
Winter is a beautiful season, although it can make some things more difficult for you, such as walking across ice and snow, exercising in cold weather, and just the general cold affecting your lower extremities. To help you keep your feet healthy, there are a number of things you can do, but if you are already experiencing a foot issue, you should seek treatment from a podiatrist. Read on for some tips you can do to prevent issues and keep your feet healthy.…
Ingrown toenails are one of the most common problems that people experience with their feet. An ingrown toenail is a condition where the nail on a toe does not grow straight and instead begins growing into the skin. In most cases, an ingrown toenail affects the nail on the big toe. If you have ever had an ingrown toenail, you know that it is not comfortable and can be quite painful.…
If your child has pain in the toe and you aren’t sure what it is, it could be an ingrown toenail. Ingrown toenails can plague anyone at any age. They can be very painful, especially if there is an infection. If you have this pain it can be difficult to walk, and for a child it can be even more of a pain. To help treat the ingrown toenail in a child, read on for ways you can help.…
Heel pain is a common complaint many people have and a reason to visit your podiatrist if you have issues with your feet. Heel pain can be chronic, which means it lasts for long periods of time or is frequent, while acute heel pain happens periodically.
Either way, heel pain can be disturbing because it makes you walk differently or causes a distraction in your daily activity. Learn why your heel pain may be occurring so you can share this information with your podiatrist when you make an appointment.…
If you hate the way that your feet look, then you may wonder if you’ll always have to spend the rest of your life hiding them in shoes. Luckily, this article has a few different ways that you can start to feel more confident and comfortable in your feet. Ready to learn more? Read on.
Get Cosmetic Toe Surgery
If you are really self-conscious about the shape, length, or just overall appearance of your toes in particular, then you may want to consider cosmetic toe surgery.…
