Diabetic Foot Care

Diabetic foot care is essential for diabetics! Diabetes can be extremely dangerous to your feet, a small cut can produce serious consequences. Diabetes may cause nerve damage that takes away the feeling in your feet leaving you unaware of swelling, pain, and infection. Diabetes may also reduce blood flow to the feet, making it harder to heal an injury or resist infection. Because of these problems, you may not notice an unknown object in your shoe causing you to develop a blister or a sore. This could lead to an infection or a non-healing wound that could put you at risk for an amputation. Diabetics must monitor their feet daily to avoid serious foot problems that could result in losing a toe, foot or leg.

Foot and ankle surgeons are the leading experts in foot and ankle care. As doctors of Podiatric Medicine, or paodiatrists, foot and ankle surgeons have more education and training specific to the foot and ankle than any other healthcare provider.

Foot and ankle surgeons treat all conditions affecting the foot and ankle, from the simple to the complex, in patients of all ages including diabetes. Their intensive education and training qualify foot and ankle surgeons to perform a wide range of surgeries, including any surgery that may be indicated for diabetic foot care.

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