Diabetes is a condition whereby the body does not make insulin or has trouble recognizing it. Insulin is crucial for storing food sugars. With diabetes, the sugars are not stored properly and remain at high levels in the blood stream.
According to Diabetes Canada (Feb 2020), diabetes affects the lives of almost 11 million Canadians. Diabetes is the inability for the body to make or properly use insulin, and it impairs the body’s ability to convert sugars, starches and other foods into energy.
Diabetes is a disease that affects the body’s ability to use food properly, which results in more sugar or glucose freely circulating in the blood. It’s possible to live a healthy life with diabetes. To do so, it’s important to learn and follow proper diabetes management, which takes awareness, discipline, and commitment.
If you’re experiencing common painful foot conditions like plantar fasciitis, bunions, or flat feet, a Registered Chiropodist can help you in many ways!
Whether you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, or know someone who does, it affects every aspect of your life, making mundane activities and occurrences more important to take note of, especially when it comes to foot health.
Living with diabetes means paying attention to the details, especially when it comes to foot health! One of the small but important details is wearing the correct socks, specifically a diabetes-friendly sock. You might wonder why socks matter so much, but for clients with diabetes, the right sock can help them prevent complications such as blisters, or fungal infections and helps support overall foot health.
Chiropodists are Medical Footcare Clinicians who can prescribe oral and topical medications and can perform soft tissue surgical procedures and injections into the feet. Let’s learn how a Chiropodist can help you today!
The bottoms of our feet are subjected to pressure and friction when we walk, run, climb, jump, and even sit. If the skin on our feet endures enough pressure and friction, callus may develop.
Patients with diabetes frequently develop an intermittent or permanent loss of sensation (neuropathy) in their feet. Without the warning of discomfort or pain, pressures developed from poorly fitting footwear, particularly on the soles of the "diabetic foot" can result in an open ulcer
