Diabetic Foot Health - What Your Feet Might Be Telling You

Managing diabetes isn’t just about numbers on a glucose monitor. It’s about understanding how the condition quietly affects different parts of your body, especially your feet. Many patients are surprised to learn that some of the earliest warning signs of complications show up below the ankles. The encouraging news? With awareness and the right care, most diabetic foot problems are preventable.

When Should I Worry About Numb Feet?

What causing my feet to feel tingling or numbness? Your nervous system provides the sensory and motor information that your muscles and other bodily systems need to operate. When your nerves' function is compromised, it can cause a tingling, burning, and numbing sensation in your extremities, with the feet frequently being affected.

Why Are My Feet So Hot?

Having a sensation that your feet are burning is a fairly common occurrence that can be caused by a wide variety of factors. With diseases like diabetes and peripheral artery disease, a burning sensation is often accompanied by numbness and tingling. A skin condition may be the cause, or it could be your feet are tired and achy from working all day.

Six Treatments of Neuromas

A Neuroma is a benign tumor that cultivates from the fibrous outer layers of a nerve, particularly in the foot. It can cause a variety of sensations due to the sporadic nature of an injured nerve, one of which is unfortunately severe discomfort from a pinched nerve in between the toes.

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Six Treatments for Neuromas (Foot Nerve Condition)

A Neuroma is a benign tumor that cultivates from the fibrous outer layers of a nerve, particularly in the foot. It can cause a variety of sensations due to the sporadic nature of an injured nerve, one of which is unfortunately severe discomfort from a pinched nerve in between the toes.

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5 Signs It Might Be Morton’s Neuroma

Have you ever felt like there’s something inside the ball of your foot? If that sensation falls in the area right below your toes and in between your big toe and first little toe, you might be onto something. If there’s this inexplicable but small feeling of fullness in that little area below and between your first two toes, it could be Morton’s neuroma.

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4 Reasons Diabetics Need a Podiatrist

As a disease, there are two known types of diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2. If you have Type 1 diabetes, your body is only able to produce a small amount of insulin or no insulin at all.

Foot Feeling Pins & Needles - Is That Normal?

Imagine you’re walking your usual route for an evening stroll and you notice about one third of the way through, your foot starts to burn. Maybe it’s a nerve burning, like that of feeling pins and needles, or it’s more of a muscle burning. Is this normal?

5 Causes of Metatarsalgia

Metatarsalgia (or metatarsal syndrome) is an uncomfortable and painful malady that strikes in the area of the ball of the foot.

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4 Symptoms of Diabetic Nerve Damage

One of the main initial signs that you may be developing diabetes is a condition called peripheral neuropathy, which is nerve damage related to high blood sugar levels

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