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Everything You Need to Know About Diabetic Foot Care

Diabetic health goes beyond your blood sugar and extends all the way down to your feet. Over time, diabetes can cause nerve and blood vessel damage in your feet. This damage leads to tingling, pain, decreased blood flow to your lower limbs, and loss of feeling in your feet. Called Diabetic Neuropathy, this condition and its symptoms can be very dangerous if not properly monitored. Diabetic neuropathy can make it harder to feel an open sore or infection in your foot, and without good blood flow, your feet will have a harder time healing. If left untreated, these little sores can lead to amputation of the limb.

Diabetic Foot Care

Common Diabetic Foot and Ankle Conditions

People with diabetes are prone to many foot problems, often due to two diabetes complications: nerve damage (neuropathy) and poor blood circulation. Neuropathy causes loss of feeling in your feet, taking away your ability to feel pain and discomfort, so you may not detect an injury or irritation. Poor circulation in your feet reduces your ability to heal, making it hard for even a tiny cut to resist infection. When you have diabetes, you need to be aware of how foot problems can arise from disturbances in the skin, nails, nerves, bones, muscles, and blood vessels.

Diabetic Neuropathy

Foot Infections

Corns and Calluses

Dry, Cracked Feet

Ingrown or Infected Nails

Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Hammertoes

Bunions

Charcot Foot

Brittle Bones

Treatment Approach

Our Approach to Diabetic Foot Care

At Rocky Mountain Foot and Ankle, our first approach to Diabetic foot health is education. You play an active and vital role in heading off diabetic complications and infections. With the proper education, we can work together to spot potential problems before they develop into anything more serious. Our first line of treatment comes in the form of regular checkups, preventative nail care, and wound healing.

When issues have progressed beyond preventative measures, it is not only our goal to prevent amputation, but to also keep you moving. We will work together, with you and your Primary Care Physician, to restore function and return you to normal life as soon as possible.

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Fractures & Injuries

Ankle sprains, ligament tears, muscle injuries, puncture wounds, and sesamoid fractures are all common foot and ankle injuries.

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Skin & Nails

Ingrown nails, fungus, athlete’s foot, plantar warts, and dermatitis are all common nail and skin conditions we treat.

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Toes & Bunions

Stop suffering from the pain, inflammation, dull aches, and instability caused by bunions, ganglion cysts, and hammertoes. 

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Nerve Conditions

Nerve conditions like diabetic peripheral neuropathy, Morton’s neuroma, and tarsal tunnel syndrome can cause tingling, prickly pain, numbness, and burning in your feet.

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Heel & Achilles

Achilles tendinitis, Achilles tendonosis, and traumatic rupture of the Achilles tendon are all common injuries that cause heel pain and instability. 

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Sports Conditions

Athletes experience their share of stress fractures and ankle sprains and are prone to repeated stress injuries such as plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, sesamoiditis, and more.

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Diabetic Foot Care

Since diabetes can cause nerve damage that takes away feeling in your feet, it may become more difficult to heal from an injury and diabetic wounds can become stubborn, dangerous infections. 

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Arthritis & Osteoarthritis

Stiffness, reduced range of motion, and/or a feeling of warmth around the foot and ankle joints from arthritis can significantly restrict your ability to easily perform daily activities.



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