Charcot Foot

Charcot Foot

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Charcot’s foot is one of the many issues which might occur in individuals with diabetes mellitus. The larger blood sugar levels that occur in diabetes have an impact on quite a few body systems for example the eye, kidneys and nerves. In long standing cases, especially when there’s been a poor management of the blood glucose levels, you will find injury to the nerves supplying the feet. This makes the feet in danger of problems as if something fails, you are unable to realize it went wrong as you can not necessarily experience it because of the harm to the nerves. This might be simple things like standing on a pin and that getting contaminated and you do not know that you’ve stood on it. It could be a blister or callus which gets infected and you do not know that it’s happening on the foot if you don’t take a look. This is why foot care is really essential for individuals with diabetes and exactly why it will be provided so much emphasis. A Charcot foot is the damage occurring to the bones and joints if you have a trauma and you don’t know that the injury has occurred.

Another way of looking at it could be to think about it this way: imagine that you strain your ankle horribly and you also have no idea that you have simply because you don’t feel the pain from this. After this you carry on and walk around on it. Just imagine all of the further damage that you do when walking about on it. The earliest you could observe that there may be a problem is when you take a seat and look at the feet and you notice that one is a lot more inflamed than the other. This is exactly what occurs in individuals with diabetes who develop a Charcot’s foot. There may be some damage, like a ankle sprain or a progressive collapse of the arch of the foot and as no pain is sensed they continue to walk around on it. It ought to be apparent the amount of additional damage which gets done to the first injury prior to the problem is finally recognized due to the swelling. From time to time there is not much swelling, but the Charcot’s foot is found due to difference in temperature between the two feet because of the inflamation related process in the damaged foot which produces much more heat.

The progression of a Charcot foot ought to be taken care of as somewhat of an emergency as the more it progresses the much more serious it is going to be and the more challenging it’s to deal with. The individual really has to stop all weightbearing straight away or at the minimum get a walking support to ensure the Charcot’s foot is supported. For the not too severe occurrences and those conditions which were serious and have improved a very supporting insole in the footwear is necessary to support the foot and the damage. Sometimes surgery is required to straighten the dislocated and subluxed joints. Probably the most serious instances could end up with the foot and/or leg required to be amputated because the injury has been doing too much deterioration.

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