Your feet are at risk. When high blood sugar damages nerves, you can lose feeling in your feet. When circulation is compromised, blood doesn’t easily travel to your feet. Healing a wound on the diabetic foot can be very difficult.
Montgomery Foot Care Specialists have a Certified Shoe Fitter on staff who’s trained to help diabetics find custom-fit, comfortable, supportive shoes that reduce diabetic foot problems.
Diabetics are more prone to foot infections, wounds that don’t heal, ingrown toenails, corns, calluses, and dry or cracked skin. Poor circulation to the feet can cause bones to weaken.
Your overall health whether you have diabetes, need to move quickly to get to the bathroom, are getting adequate nutrition to support healthy bones, or have a history of foot pain is important to the preventions of falls.
To understand diabetes, it helps to know a little bit about the pancreas. The pancreas is an organ located to the rear of the stomach.
Podiatrists Chanda L. Day-Houts, DPM and Heidi M. Christie, DPM of Montgomery Foot Care Specialists are passionate about diabetes prevention. That’s because we’ve seen the horrible things that can happen to a person’s feet when diabetes gets the upper hand. But in honor of Diabetes Awareness Month, we have a special message today specifically for […]
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If you’ve got diabetes, you already know that you’ve got to stay on top of your blood glucose levels. High blood sugar contributes to problems with vision, heart disease, kidney function, and oral health. But did you know that nerve damage (neuropathy) and circulation issues (lack of blood flow) are two additional problems – major […]
In the United States, over 30 million people have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unless these diabetes sufferers are managing their disease – and in some cases, even if they are – there’s a very good chance that one day they’ll be faced with having an ulcer. What’s a diabetic […]
