Subluxation of metatarsals following partial amputation in cases of diabetic osteomyelitis Diabetic wounds and the bone infections (osteomyelitis) that can often result from diabetic wounds are always challenging to treat. In my years of practice, I’ve found no better teacher...
Wounds of the lower extremity have a host of different contributing causes, but in diabetic patients, the vast majority of wounds occur as a result of loss of protective sensation. Protective sensation is the ability to feel pain. Diabetic peripheral...
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a well known complication of diabetes affecting 50% of all diabetic patients. The symptoms of DPN are sensory but can also affect the motor skills of diabetic patients. We’ve always referred DPN as a peripheral...
Necrobiosis Lipoidica Diabeticorm Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (NLD) is a granulomatous skin disease found in diabetic patients. The prevalence of NLD is quite rare being found in less than 0.3% of all diabetics.(1) Fifty percent of all diabetic patients with NLD...
Walking, sunshine and diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Walking – how could something so simple be so effective? Robert Roy Britt in his Medium article entitled The Case for Walking – small steps yield big benefits, focuses on studies that prove that...
Part 3 - Treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy Objective - Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is the most common complication of both type 1 (T2DM) and type 2 (T2DM) diabetes. Diabetes causes a number of different neuropathic complications to include sympathetic and...
Part 2 - Examination guidelines for physicians and midlevel providers Objectives In part 1 of this three-part blog on the treatment of patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) we discussed the economic impact of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, the pathophysiology of...
Diabetic Foot Cream acts to suppress the symptoms of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The active ingredient in Diabetic Foot Cream is capsaicin. Capsaicin is small oil soluble molecule that is found in the filament of hot peppers where the seeds of the pepper are held to the central core of the pepper. This article explores the use of hot peppers in diabetic skin care products.
Natural Diabetic Foot Cream is a new addition to the line of natural products at Myfootshop.com. What's unique about Natural Diabetic Foot Cream is that it's really three products in one. Natural Diabetic Foot Cream is a hydrating cream for dry skin, it's an antifungal for low grade chronic fungal infections of the foot and it's a topical pain reliever that treats diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Let's take a brief look at each of these problems and why a combination therapy like Natural Diabetic Foot Cream is so important.
We introduced Natural Diabetic Foot Cream to the market in late 2014. Just another foot cream? No, not at all. Natural Diabetic Foot Natural Cream is specially formulated in the Myfootshop.com lab to address three very specific diabetic issues. Diabetic foot care is an important part of the daily care for diabetic patients. And we think Diabetic Foot Cream is an essential part of that care.
I still see both Janet and Sharon as patients. The two have had dramatically different outcomes, one pulling out of the tailspin and the other crashing.
We're talking about our two patients, Janet and Sharon who are at a turning point in their lives. That turning point is called the tail spin. The tail spin is where they make poor health care choices that result in a loss of their vitality and health. Let's take a look at the similarities and differences between their cases.
After being in practice for thirty years you start to pick up on trends in your practice. You start to realize subsets of patients who have similar problems or challenges and share similar outcomes. Any good doctor is going to try to help these patients do better, be more and live a long and product lives. One of the most challenging subsets of patients that I see are a group of folks who come to me for foot pain, but the foot pain is just the tip of the iceberg.
Diabetes is renown as the primary disease that contributes to a loss of sensation in the feet. This loss of sensation is called diabetic peripheral neuropathy, abbreviated DPN. DPN is a symmetrical loss of sensation often described as a stocking/glove distribution, affected the feet and to a lesser degree, the hands. The loss of sensation that results from DPN is greater distal to proximal, meaning that the loss of sensation will typically be worse in the toes.
